For FC Barcelona, there's no place like home

In the last decade Barça's La Liga record at Camp Nou is a staggering 158 wins, 21 draws, and just 11 defeats Messi's 160 goals there over the same period are tops on the team

When Dorothy Gale — the main protagonist in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz — tapped her heels together three times while wearing the magical ruby slippers and repeating, "There's no place like home," she was magically whisked back to the comforts of her farm back in Kansas, leaving a whirlwind odyssey in her wake.

And while Camp Nou is a far cry from Kansas, it will certainly be a welcome landing spot for FC Barcelona following a globetrotting preseason schedule — with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Florence, and Tblilisi — and an opening week on the road in the 2015/16 La Liga.

In looking at Barça's home opener this season in league play, which comes on Saturday versus Málaga at 8.30pm CET, it's worth taking a look at the numbers to see just how 'sweet' Camp Nou has been the the Catalans recently in the domestic championship of the Spanish First Division.

In fact, since the 2005/06 season — when Frank Rijkaard was running the show — through Luis Enrique's title-winning campaign in 2014/15 , Barça are 158–11–21 in 190 La Liga games played at Camp Nou.

SEASON	WINS	LOSSES	DRAWS	POINTS
2014/15	16	2	1	49
2013/14	16	1	2	50
2012/13	18	0	1	55
2011/12	17	1	1	52
2010/11	16	1	2	50
2009/10	18	0	1	55
2008/09	14	2	3	45
2007/08	14	3	2	44
2006/07	14	0	5	47
2005/06	15	1	3	48
TOTALS	158	11	21	495

Messi leads in scoring, of course

If there's one Barça player who has essentially dedicated himself to getting the Barça fans to rise out of their seats in jubilation, that player is Lionel Messi. In the last decade Messi has scored 160 home league goals (he has 161 in his career), far above Samuel Eto'o, who is number two over the same period with 46. Here are the top nine:

PLAYER	Messi	Eto'o	Ronaldinho	Pedro	Alexis	Xavi	Villa	Henry	Iniesta
GOALS	160	46	32	31	30	25	23	21	20

And they weren't the only players who lit up the scoreboard for Barça, either. The team scored a total of 560 home league goals in the last ten years while only giving up 126.

Many of those goals led to routs. Barça's biggest win came on 17 November 2011 in an 8–0 victory over Osasuna. Two other games ended in 7–0 blaugrana victories — against Levante on 18 August 2013 and yet another versusOsasuna on 16 March 2014.

GF	GA	Top scorer	Biggest rout
64	11	Messi, 27	6-0 (FCB-Granada, Getafe)
64	15	Messi, 16	7-0 (FCB-Levante, Osasuna)
63	15	Messi, 22	6-1 (FCB-Getafe)
73	11	Messi, 35	8-0 (FCB-Osasuna)
46	10	Messi, 15	5-0 (FCB-Sevilla, Madrid, R.Sociedad)
57	11	Messi, 16	6-1 (FCB-Zaragoza)
61	14	Eto'o, 21	6-0 (FCB-Valladolid, Málaga)
46	12	Messi, 9	6-0 (FCB-Valencia)
41	12	Ronaldinho, 15	4-0 (FCB-Villarreal)
45	15	Eto'o, 13	5-0 (FCB-R.Sociedad)

*Stats by Opta

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