There’s no greater talent factory in world soccer than Barcelona’s famous academy, La Masia.
La Masia is widely regarded as the best academy the sport has ever seen. The foundation of the greatest Barcelona teams of all time have always been constructed with players that graduated from the academy.
Players that surge from La Masia are known to be elite technicians, intelligent players that understand how to read the game and play a possession-based system that translates seamlessly to the trademarked playing style of Barça’s senior team.
To this day, La Masia holds the honor of being the only academy ever to have three graduates share a Ballon d’Or podium. In 2010, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández and Lionel Messi—the three greatest La Masia graduates of all time—shared the podium for the award, with the latter taking home the prize.
Since the start of the 2020s, Barcelona have been immersed in deep economic trouble. The only way the club has managed to return to prominence and enter the 2025–26 season as one of the consensus best teams in the world is thanks to La Masia talents that have become pillars of the current Barça squad. In recent preseason games, we’ve also seen glimpses of new academy players with tremendous potential.
Here, ranks the top six La Masia talents to graduate into Barcelona’s first-team since the start of the decade.
