THE CLUB HOPES TO REINAGURE THE ESTADI IN DECEMBER
Barça's return to the Spotify Camp Nou could be delayed several months from the expected date
Published:20/05/2024 - 23:10h
Updated:20/05/2024 - 23:34h
The Spotify Camp Nou works could give FC Barcelona serious headaches regarding planning for next season. The board estimates that they will return to the culé temple in December, but everything indicates that they will have to wait a little longer
The FC Barcelona could demorar at least a pair of months more than the estimated his return to the Spotify Camp Nou. When they initiated the works in June of 2023, fixed the date of the 125 anniversary of the club, on 29 November 2024, like the date in which the team would go back to play in the temple culé. However, the managerial postergó for December of this year the inauguration of the Estadi, foreseeing some demora in the project.
As it advances 'Relief', the rumours aim to that, hardly, the works will advance the sufficient to reopen the Camp Nou this year. "It is not that we do not arrive to December... It is that to see if it is for March", ensure internal sources of the project to the sportive portal. In this sense, the Barça could resignarse to contest all the first turn of the 2024/25 in Montjuïc and, maybe, a bit more.
The Barça will have to play all the 'phase of league' of the Champions in Montjuïc
In the case of the Champions, the new format will force to the Barça to play all the 'phase of league' in Lluís Companys. The liguilla that substitutes to the phase of groups will contest of 17 September 2024 to 29 January 2025 and, by normative UEFA, a club can not modify his headquarters while it was in course a determinate phase. From eighth, the club can update his headquarters if, finally, are given the conditions to play in the Camp Nou.
The new date tentativa in which the Barça could return to the Camp Nou
Like this the things, waiting for an official update by part of the Barcelona directive, the club recently could return to the temple culé to finals of January of 2025, after eighth and last day of the phase of league of the Champions. This month, the Barcelona group will have an intense calendar that will include the Glass of Rey and the Supercopa Spanish to contest in Arabia between the 8 and on 12 January.
Nevertheless, the most realistic projection aims to March like the date in which the Camp Nou will be smart to reopen his doors with a near capacity to the 65.000 viewers. In accordance with the agreement signed by the directive with the Turkish conglomerate Limak Holding, the new Estadi has to be totally finalised on 24 September 2026. Any demora from this date will force to the company to credit 1 million of daily euros to the club like compensation until so much conclude the works.
