Barça Residency Academy USA is FC Barcelona’s official soccer residency academy in the U.S.A., where players from all around the country and abroad live, attend school, train, and compete at the highest level for 11 months of the year.

Barça Residency Academy USA has partnered with FC Barcelona, one of the premier and most renowned soccer clubs in the world, and Grande Sports Academy, one of the most successful youth soccer development academies in the United States competing in the MLS Next Academy League. Barça Residency Academy USA, located in Casa Grande, AZ, is the home of the most talented 13-19-year-old players and sits atop the FC Barcelona U.S. youth player development pyramid. Barça Residency Academy USA is the only MLS Next League full-time residential program in the U.S. partnered with a top international professional team. It will compete in the U19, U17, U16 & U15 age groups. No other top-level international professional team has brought their highest-level youth coaches to the U.S. to live full-time on campus and train young talented players year-round.