Official: Barcelona will not play at the Camp Nou during the 2023-24 season

They move premises. FC Barcelona will stop using the Camp Nou during the 2023-24 season due to renovations, which are scheduled to start in June. Joan Laporta made the announcement and also indicated that they will play at home at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium.

The president of Barcelona and the mayor of the city, Ada Colau, made the announcement at a press conference which was also attended by the deputy mayors Jaume Collboni and Janet Sanz, the institutional vice-president of the Blaugrana club, Elena Fort, and the director responsible for the ‘Espai Barça’, Jordi Llauradó.

The granting of the building permit, which the Council’s Governing Commission approved this Thursday, allows the start of the reform and expansion of the stadium and promotes the ‘Espai Barça’ project, which plans to open the facilities to the public and renovate more than 111,000 square meters with more green areas and space for the neighborhood.

Thus, the works will begin this June at the end of the current season; In the 2023-2024 season, the transfer to the Olympic Stadium will be made, coinciding with the bulk of the works in the current culé fiefdom, and it is planned that in the 2024-2025 season it will return to the Camp Nou with a capacity of around 50%, and that, in the next one, 2025-2026, the works are completed. An updated schedule that foresees a delay of a few months compared to the initial plan.

Regarding the capacity, Laporta has assured that it is expected to be “practically 100 percent” for the next season and that for the 2025-2026 it is contemplated that it will be more than 50 percent, although there may not be full capacity because they will be finishing the works.

Currently, FC Barcelona and the City Council are working on the conditions for the transfer to the Olympic Stadium, which will include both the necessary interventions in the stadium and the joint responsibility of the club with the expenses generated in terms of mobility, cleaning, security and maintenance of the stadium. ambit.

Colau has highlighted that it is a very well worked out agreement, which benefits both the club and the city, while Laporta has predicted that, with this reform, the Camp Nou “will be the largest, most innovative and most attractive sports and entertainment space that it is done within a city”.