Barca hoping to return to Camp Nou 'by end of year'
Barcelona's Brazilian forward Raphinha celebrates scoring his team's first goal during the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Valladolid FC at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys in Barcelona on August 31, 2024. (Photo by MANU QUINTERO / AFP)
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Barcelona
are hoping to return to their legendary Camp Nou stadium, currently undergoing
modernisation and expansion work, "by the end of the year", club
spokesperson Elena Fort said on Monday.
The
Catalan giants' construction roadmap was presented to the press on Monday, with
officials insisting the club was "actively working" to return to the
Camp Nou "by the end of the year" with an initial 62,000 capacity,
instead of the 105,000 planned at the end of the work.
The stadium
should be completed in the summer of 2026, when the project dubbed "Espai
Barca" will be finished and the stadium roof installed.
Barcelona
fans will be able in the coming days to register to buy a six-month partial
season ticket for the latter part of the campaign.
Work on
the Camp Nou got underway in June 2023 but was slowed over permit complications
and complaints over working conditions.
As a
result Barca requested to extend their contract for the use of the Montjuic
Olympic stadium "until March 31, 2025, as a precaution".
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