Barca Change Camp Nou Return Plan Again

Spanish champions Barcelona announced that they present program to instrumentality to their renovated Camp Nou location lone erstwhile they person support for a impermanent capableness of 45,000 supporters.

This determination comes little than a week aft Barca erstwhile again delayed their expected instrumentality to their iconic location stadium, which was initially slated for November 2024 earlier being postponed respective times.

Previously, the Catalan giants had hoped to reopen their stadium erstwhile they secured a licence to big matches successful beforehand of 27,000 fans—something they anticipated obtaining past month.
The determination to hold until the impermanent capableness is accrued to 45,000 is astir definite to origin further delays successful the re-opening of 1 of Europe’s large stadiums, aft a redevelopment that has faced galore setbacks. The nine is estimated to beryllium paying €1.5 cardinal ($1.75 billion) for the Camp Nou rebuild, which has been plagued by reconstruction chaos.
“Although we expect to soon person the archetypal occupancy licence for signifier 1A, Barcelona volition enactment towards returning to Spotify Camp Nou erstwhile the licence for signifier 1B is obtained, which volition grow the capableness to 45,000 spectators,” the nine stated successful a communication, without providing immoderate denotation of erstwhile that would occur.

Barcelona was humiliatingly forced to play 2 matches astatine their 6,000 capableness Johan Cruyff grooming crushed successful the aboriginal weeks of the play aft failing to get the indispensable licence for Camp Nou.

The metropolis assembly stated successful September that they would not let Barcelona to instrumentality to the stadium, which volition person a capableness of 105,000 erstwhile completed, owed to information concerns.

Barcelona confirmed connected Tuesday that they volition big their adjacent La Liga crippled against Girona connected October 18 astatine the Olympic stadium connected the city’s Montjuïc hill. The nine played determination for the past 2 seasons portion Camp Nou was closed and had to instrumentality determination astatine the extremity of September pursuing their 2 games astatine the tiny Johan Cruyff venue.

Barca besides announced that their adjacent Champions League lucifer against Olympiakos volition instrumentality spot astatine the Olympic stadium connected October 21. Their consequent location games are against Elche connected November 2 and Athletic Bilbao connected November 23.