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Faced with delayed work, the reopening posts of Camp Nou did not end at FC Barcelona while the lease signed to take the Montjuic enclosure ends at the end of May. According to the revelations of The Athletic, the authorities of the Catalan club would even plan to play all the first games of the 2025-2026 season outside.
Report on postponement. While the modernization of Camp Na seemed to end for the start of the 2025-2026 season, it will still be necessary to wait a bit on the side of FC Barcelona fans to attend Liga matches in their sacred enclosure again. According to information revealed by The Athletic This Friday, April 18, 2025, the Catalan club plans to make a fairly special request to La Liga.
With a return to Camp Nou finally Scheduled for September 2025the club's leading bodies could call the league to be flexible in its calendar by asking to play the first outside games, between mid-August and early September.
Previous agreements with the town hall had offered FC Barcelona two lease extensions to use the Montjuic stadium until the end of the season. But the enclosure will no longer be able to welcome the Catalan club beyond May 2025 – leaving the orphan barçin of functional stadium – the fault of a reservation made to receive various concerts between June and September.
The Real Madrid preceding in 2022
This treatment, subject to validation by La Liga, is reminiscent of similar precedents in the history of the championship. Already in 2022, Real Madrid had been allowed to play its first three outdoor games. There too, to finalize the reconstruction work (delayed) of its stadium, the Santiago-Bernabéu.
FC Barcelona had already benefited from a special Liga authorization this season: that of playing more home games in the second part of the exercise, with the hope of a return enough at Camp Nou … which finally fell into the water.
The end of the modernization of Camp Nou (launched in 2023) was initially scheduled for November 2024, on the occasion of the club's 125th anniversary. Meanwhile, the difficult availability of materials and labor, not to mention exceptional weather conditions, have delayed everything. A reopening was then scheduled in February and then in April. Still missed. At the cumulation, the work is finally 10 months late.
If a return is therefore expected for September, the management of FC bracelone still informed certain providers that their commercial activities in the stadium would not resume before November 2025. Once finalized, the renovation work of Camp Nou should allow the enclosure to accommodate up to 105,000 people (against 99,354 previously), making it the largest stage in Europe.
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