Ranking every player to wear No.9 for Barcelona since 1995

Memphis Depay is the latest player to wear Barcelona‘s iconic No.9 shirt – but how have the previous incumbents of the shirt fared?

11 players have worn the shirt since 1995 and it would be fair to say that the club have had mixed successes with those that proudly wore the number nine on the back of their shirt – from the utterly sublime to the quite frankly ridiculous.

Here’s how we’ve ranked them, from worst to best.

It feels mean putting Braithwaite bottom, because – to be fair – he’s done exactly what you’d expect of a striker that not so long ago scored eight goals in 36 Championship appearances for Middlesbrough.

We can’t help but like the Denmark international, who has been honest about his limitations and has always shown his commitment to the cause.

Signed for €18million, his return isn’t all that unreasonable, either, with 10 goals and five assists from 57 appearances, most of which have been off the bench.

After breaking the 20-goal mark in back-to-back seasons in La Liga for Real Sociedad, Kodro joined Barcelona in the summer of 1995.

He failed to recapture the form he had shown for the Basque club, however, scoring just nine goals in 32 league appearances in his only season at the Nou Camp. That’s still a better ratio than Braithwaite, to be fair.

Anderson joined Barcelona from Monaco in 1997 and had the unenviable task of replacing Ronaldo at the Nou Camp.

“It was a very difficult time because when I arrived, I cost more money than Ronaldo and the fans expected from me a similar performance,” Anderson told Goal in 2019.

“Ronaldo was a unique player and the fans didn’t know much about me because I played in France.”

While he was never going to fill Ronaldo’s shoes, he still won back-to-back La Liga titles