Still no return to Camp Nou for FC Barcelona. The club announced this Wednesday that it would not return to its lair before February 2025.
FC Barcelona announced this Wednesday that it would postpone its return to its legendary Camp Nou stadium, which has been undergoing modernization and expansion work for more than a year, until mid-February 2025 at the earliest, due in particular to “logistical constraints”. “The club has decided to continue playing in the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium (in Montjuic) until the end of the initial phase of the Champions League”affirms the Catalan club in a message addressed to its members and published on its website.
This decision was made “due to UEFA regulations, which prohibit any change of stadium during” these “initial phase”et “logistical difficulties and the additional cost of maintaining two large capacity installations operational at the same time”he adds. The Champions League match on January 29 against Atalanta Bergamo, then those of the 21st and 22nd days of Liga against Valencia and Alavés will be like this «contested in the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium»the venue which has hosted Barça since the start of the work, adds this message.
Return to Camp Nou on February 15
Given that the match against Alavés is due to be played on the weekend of February 2, the return to Camp Nou is therefore not expected to take place before the scheduled match against Rayo Vallecano on the weekend of February 15. The institutional vice-president of Barça, Elena Fort, assured in October that the club was working “actively” to return to Camp Nou “by the end of the year”with a provisional capacity of 62,000 places.
The work, according to the club, should be completed in the summer of 2026, and will expand the capacity to 105,000 places. Launched in June 2023, work to modernize Camp Nou, which will now be called «Spotify Camp Nou» due to a sponsorship agreement signed with the music streaming giant, were slowed down for permit reasons, and complaints from several workers about their working conditions.
In this context, FC Barcelona had already asked the town hall to extend the contract for the Montjuic Olympic stadium until March 2025, “as a precaution”.
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