Boca Juniors to play Barcelona in 2018 Joan Gamper Trophy LaLiga - Barcelona President confirmed the news

Barcelona will take on Argentine outfit Boca Juniors in the next edition of the Joan Gamper Trophy.

The news was announced by the Buenos Aires-based side's president Daniel Angelici on Monday.

"We will travel to face Barcelona in August," he revealed.

It is not the first time that they have featured in the season's curtain raiser at the Camp Nou, having been invited by Joan Laporta's Barcelona in 2008.

In last year's edition of the competition, Barcelona faced Chapecoense in the wake of the harrowing plane crash which claimed the lives of many members of the club on their way to a Copa Libertadores tie.