Will FC Barcelona return to Camp Nou by the end of the calendar year? According to club spokesperson Elena Fort, it is possible. The institutional vice-president of Barça presented the Catalan giant’s roadmap to the press on Monday, ensuring that the club was working “actively“to return to Camp Nou”by the end of the year” with a gauge initially set at 62,000 places, instead of the 105,000 ultimately planned.
The end of the work is scheduled for the summer of 2026, when the “Espai Barça” – the name given to the project – will be fully finished and the roof of the stadium installed. Barcelona fans will be able in the coming days to register to buy a six-month subscription for the second part of the season, with Blaugranas leaders considering that there is “no reason” for the current leader of the Spanish championship does not push back the lawn of its legendary enclosure at the start of 2025.
Launched in June 2023, work to modernize the Camp Nou, which will now be called “Spotify Camp Nou” after the sponsorship agreement signed with the music streaming giant, has been slowed down for permit reasons, and complaints from several workers for their working conditions.
Barça therefore asked to extend its contract with the municipality for the use of the Montjuïc Olympic stadium “until March 31, 2025”, “as a precaution”. The Catalan club has been playing its matches in this venue with some 50,000 seats for over a year now.
