Barcelona AXE Dani Alves from European squad list
Carlo Garganese
- Updated: 2 Feb 2022 18:27 GMT
- 3 min read
Dani Alves will not be able to play for Barcelona in the Europa League for the rest of the season after the Blaugrana opted against naming him in their squad for the knockout stages.
Following the closing of the January transfer window, every squad still in the Champions League, Europa League or UEFA Conference League have to submit their final squads for the remainder of the competitions.
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Clubs are only allowed to register three new signings from January.
Barcelona brought in four new faces during the winter window. Ferran Torres joined from Manchester City in a deal that could eventually reach €65 million, Adama Traore arrived on loan from Wolves and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signed on a free transfer from Arsenal.
Dani Alves also returned to Barcelona as a free agent for a second spell at the club ahead of January, although he couldn’t be registered until the transfer window opened.
Thus, Barca could not register all four of their new signings and they decided to leave the veteran Brazilian out.
What is Barcelona’s Europa League squad?
Barcelona’s squad for Europa League knockout stages: Ter Stegen, Dest, Piqué, Araujo, Sergio, Riqui Puig, Dembélé, Memphis, Ansu Fati, Adama Traoré, Braithwaite, Neto, Lenglet, Pedri, L. De Jong, Jordi Alba, Ferran Torres, S. Roberto, F. De Jong, Mingueza, Umtiti, Eric, Aubameyang, Nico, Gavi, Baldé, Alvaro Sanz, Comas, Arnau Tenas, Akhomach, Astralaga, Jandro
📌 The registered 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙨 for the @EuropaLeague 👇
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) February 2, 2022
Barcelona have been drawn against Napoli in the Europa League knockout round play-offs later this month.
They play the first leg at home on Thursday February 17 before travelling to Naples for the second leg a week later.
Barca were eliminated from the group stages of the Champions League this season, finishing behind Bayern Munich and Benfica.
