Barcelona are anticipated to return to the Spotify Camp Nou throughout the 2025-26 season, though the deliberate date might be pushed again as soon as once more.
It has been over two years because the Espai Barca undertaking started, and regardless of preliminary plans being for the Barcelona first workforce to start out enjoying matches again at their residence stadium in November 2024, that rapidly turned unimaginable. Additional plans for a return in February and Might of this 12 months have been additionally scrapped, with the brand new thought being for subsequent month’s Joan Gamper Trophy to be the curtain-raiser.
Nevertheless, these plans have been scrapped too, with Barcelona as an alternative hoping to be again on the Spotify Camp Nou for his or her first residence match of the 2025-26 La Liga season, which is in opposition to Valencia in September.
Nevertheless, there may be now an opportunity that this isn’t doable, with Sport reporting that the match may as an alternative be performed on the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the place Barca Atletic sometimes play their fixtures.
Montjuic return not doable for Valencia fixture
Barcelona are nonetheless hoping to be again on the Spotify Camp Nou for the MD4 conflict, however it’s turning into much less and fewer possible. Due to this, various choices have been drawn up, with greatest answer being for the match to be performed on the 6000-capacity area.
During the last two seasons, Barcelona have performed on the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys in Montjuic, however the stadium has an occasion on for the weekend of the Valencia fixture, which is why it can’t be performed there.
Not too long ago, Barcelona president Joan Laporta admitted that he doesn’t know when Barcelona will have the ability to return to the Spotify Camp Nou, which could be very worrying – not solely as a result of the plans are very a lot delayed, but in addition contemplating that the stadium will considerably assist enhance income, which is much-needed amid the membership’s perilous monetary state of affairs.