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Sergio Busquets has been appointed as an assistant coach at Barcelona B ahead of the 2026–27 season, marking his first role in coaching after a 17-year playing career that concluded with Inter Miami's MLS Cup triumph in 2025.
Busquets is currently in the process of earning his coaching credentials, which will eventually allow him to take on a managerial role, and will be part of the coaching staff headed by former Barça right back Juliano Belletti.
The two-time Champions League champion had openly expressed his ambition "to be a coach" back in July 2015, when he was approaching his 27th birthday and still had "many years" remaining as a player. Now, with that illustrious career firmly in the past, the 38-year-old is ready to begin the next phase of his professional life.
Busquets himself made 25 appearances for Barcelona B during the early stages of his career, and the side serves as a vital launchpad for both emerging players and aspiring coaches.
Pep Guardiola launched his managerial journey with a year at Barcelona B in 2007, before being elevated to first-team head coach in 2008 to replace Frank Rijkaard, bringing Busquets along with him from the reserve side into the senior setup.
Guardiola led Barcelona to a sextuple in his debut season in 2008–09, and by the time he departed Manchester City at the end of May, he had accumulated 41 trophies across 17 seasons in management.
Luis Enrique was the coach who followed Guardiola at Barcelona B, though his journey to becoming one of the finest managers of his generation was far less straightforward. After three seasons, Enrique moved on to Roma, took a sabbatical year, and then joined Celta Vigo.
He made his return to Camp Nou in 2014 and, in his debut season, delivered the club's first La Liga, Copa del Rey, and Champions League treble since Guardiola's era. His subsequent success at Paris Saint-Germain from 2022 onward has only reinforced his reputation.
It is a well-established tradition for former Barcelona players to return to the club as manager, with Xavi Hernández being the most recent example before his dismissal at the close of the 2023–24 season.
Ex-Barcelona Players Who Became Manager
As Player | As Manager | |
|---|---|---|
Billy Lambe (player-manager) | 1912 | 1912 |
Jack Alderson (player-manager) | 1913 | 1913 |
Jack Greenwell | 1912–1916 | 1913–1923; 1931–1933 |
Romà Forns | 1903–1913 | 1926–1929 |
Franz Platko | 1923–1930 | 1934–1935; 1955–1956 |
José Planas | 1921–1927 | 1940–1941 |
Ramón Guzmán | 1928–1935 | 1941–1942 |
Juan José Nogués | 1930–1936; 1939–1941 | 1942–1944 |
Josep Samitier | 1919–1932 | 1944–1947 |
Enrique Fernández | 1935–1936 | 1947–1950 |
Ramón Llorens | 1926–1938 | 1950 |
Domènec Balmanya | 1935–1937; 1941–1944 | 1956–1958 |
Luis Miró | 1939–1943 | 1961 |
László Kubala | 1951–1961 | 1961–1963; 1980 |
José Gonzalvo | 1944–1950 | 1963 |
César Rodríguez | 1939–1955 | 1963–1964 |
Salvador Artigas | 1932–1933 | 1967–1969 |
Josep Seguer | 1942–1957 | 1969 |
Lucien Muller | 1965–1968 | 1978–1979 |
Joaquim Rifé | 1963–1976 | 1979–1980 |
José Luis Romero (interim) | 1970–1971 | 1983 |
Carles Rexach | 1965–1981 | 1988; 1991; 1996; 2001–2002 |
Johan Cruyff | 1973–1978 | 1988–1996 |
Antonio de la Cruz (interim) | 1972–1979 | 2003 |
Pep Guardiola | 1990–2001 | 2008–2012 |
Luis Enrique | 1996–2004 | 2014–2017 |
Ernesto Valverde | 1988–1990 | 2017–2020 |
Ronald Koeman | 1989–1995 | 2020–2021 |
Sergi Barjuán (interim) | 1993–2002 | 2021 |
Xavi Hernández | 1998–2015 | 2021–2024 |