Barclays Premier League Barclaycard
CancelThe title sponsor's own credit card, with a prize draw for tickets you could not buy.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
Skip the arithmetic — the board, ranked → · nothing to sign up for
What it's worth to you, after the fee
Priced on the everyday mix — 30% groceries · 10% utilities · 20% travel · 6% fuel · 34% everything else — with this card's published category rules applied. Plus milestones, minus the fee. No accelerator credit — the ranking model on /compare adds ~20% of spend at the card's best accelerator, so its ₹ for this card reads higher.
How these numbers are computed — and why the rankings show a bigger one →
Spend tiers, milestones and fee waivers included, at our house ₹/point. Portal and category multipliers can push higher — run your exact number →
Pays from the first rupee
At ₹1,000 a month — ₹12,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹100 gross (earn ₹100) against its ₹0 fee = ₹100 net — at or above ₹0 from the first rung we price. The ladder runs in ₹1,000 steps to ₹1,00,000 a month and ₹10,000 steps to ₹5,00,000; figures are rounded to the hundred, and the accelerator is never credited.
2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · why it ranks #919
Why #919 A football co-brand where the bank was the league's own title sponsor, with a redemption catalogue nobody else could touch — and the one card on the shelf with a WORSE late fee than its siblings, printed in the bank's own tariff table. Carried for the record.
The take
Barclays sponsored the Premier League from 2004 to 2016, and this is what that looked like as a piece of plastic in India. The proposition was not points, it was access: entry into prize draws for Premier League tickets and merchandise, exclusive newsletters, the league fixture schedule as a downloadable PDF from the bank's own site, and — the one genuinely distinct thing — a separate redemption catalogue that only this card could use. Barclaycard was explicit about it: "only Barclays Premier League Barclaycard customer can redeem gifts from the exclusive Barclays Premier League Redemption Catalogue." Underneath, it was the Gold. Free for life, on the page and in the tariff schedule. Fifty days of interest-free credit. Choice of billing date and a minimum payment you set at 5%, 7% or 10%. BarclaycardPoints on ordinary spend at the shelf rate, into either the general catalogue or the football one. A promotional 0% on balance transfers for three months against a 2% handling fee. And then one thing that is worth flagging, because it is the sort of detail a marketing page never carries and a tariff table always does. Barclaycard's fee schedule charges every other card a flat ₹600 late fee. For this card, and only this card, it charges "4% of total outstanding subject to a minimum of Rs. 400 and a maximum of Rs. 750" — so a football fan running a ₹15,000 balance paid ₹600 like everyone else, and one running more paid up to ₹150 extra. The bank named the card in the exception. On the earn, there is nothing to separate it from the rest of the shelf: two BarclaycardPoints per ₹100, worth ₹0.40 each off Barclays's own redemption table, which is 0.80% — the football catalogue changed what you could buy with them, not what they were worth.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
This card is lifetime free. There is no fee due, no renewal to weigh, and nothing to cancel to save.
Keep, downgrade or cancel
nothing due at the anniversary · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹0 — lifetime free
At your spend
₹2,400 a year at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend
₹4,800 a year at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend
₹9,600 a year at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend
₹28,800 a year at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend
₹48,000 a year at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend
Everyday earn plus milestones, with no fee to subtract — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →
The downgrade
Barclays Bank publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and the numbers above are the whole of it.
If you call to cancel
What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →
The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.
What's good
- Free for life — no joining fee and no annual fee, stated on the product page and in Barclaycard's own tariff schedule
- Entry into prize draws for Barclays Premier League tickets and merchandise
- An exclusive Barclays Premier League redemption catalogue no other Barclaycard could use
- Premier League newsletters and the season fixture schedule, published on the bank's own site
- Choose your billing week and set your minimum payment at 5%, 7% or 10% of the balance
Watch out
- WITHDRAWN — Barclays wound down its Indian consumer credit-card business and barclaycard.in no longer serves a product page
- A WORSE LATE FEE THAN EVERY OTHER BARCLAYCARD: 4% of the total outstanding, minimum ₹400 and maximum ₹750, where the rest of the shelf paid a flat ₹600 — the tariff table names this card in the exception
- The interest rate was REPRICED on you every six months, anywhere from 2.5% to 3.7% a month, on your usage and credit-bureau record
- The football benefits were draws and newsletters, not tickets — nothing was guaranteed
- No lounge access and no travel benefit of any kind, and 3.5% on foreign currency
- Redemption needed a minimum of 1,250 BarclaycardPoints — ₹500 of value before anything could be claimed at all
- The exclusive football catalogue was a different shelf of gifts, not a better rate: the 0.80% is the general catalogue's ₹0.40 a point, and no football-specific price survives
What these points actually fly
No live transfer route takes BarclaycardPoints into a programme that publishes an award chart. These points buy catalogue and portal redemptions, not award seats — so this page has no flight to show you, and will not invent one.
what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →
Lounge access
0 of 793 tracked doors
No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →
Can you get it?
the route in — no cutoffs published
The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.
Closed to new applications — existing cardholders keep the card; there is no way in.
You cannot. Barclays exited Indian consumer credit cards in the early 2010s, and its Premier League title sponsorship itself ended in 2016.
Barclays Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
no MITC row researched for this card yet · filter the board by what you can get →
What's changed for this card
nothing tracked yet — which is itself a fact
No tracked devaluations or changes yet — this card's history starts here.
Verified against Barclays Bank's own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point
Every document behind this page — 4 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Barclaycard India's Barclays Premier League Barclaycard page (archived 12-Dec-2007) — the free-for-life statement, the prize draws, the newsletters and the fixture schedule
- official Barclaycard India's BarclaycardPoints page and redemption catalogue (archived 20-Dec-2009) — the earn rate, the ₹500-voucher price and this card's exclusive Premier League catalogue
- official Barclaycard India's Most Important Terms and Conditions and Tariff Schedule (archived 08-Jan-2010) — NIL fees on this card, and a late-payment charge that singles it out
- official Barclays Bank PLC India's own site today — its Indian lines of business are Private Banking and Investment Banking, and it sells no consumer card at all