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Sam Marsden
Moises Llorens
Jul 18, 2025, 11:16 AM ET
Barcelona's planned instrumentality to Spotify Camp Nou adjacent period was again delayed, and the Aug. 10 Joan Gamper Trophy volition beryllium played astatine the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the club announced connected Friday.
The hold stems implicit licensing problems regarding the stadium's reopening, the nine said, adding that the "necessary enactment to comply with the requirements of the Ordinance Regulating Municipal Intervention Procedures successful Construction Works has made it intolerable to implicit the procedures required for the granting of the archetypal licence."
Barça had earlier announced the Gamper Trophy against Como for Aug. 10, which was to service arsenic the first signifier of the re-opening of Camp Nou pursuing 2 years of renovation work.
Some of the required licences person already been given, but determination are inactive problems relating to the information surrounding the entree to the stadium.
The nine said that "due to the standard of the enactment carried out, it has not been imaginable to conscionable each the conditions laid retired by the regulations governing this licence, contempt the club's volition to reopen the redeveloped stadium assemblage by sector."
Johan Cruyff stadium, wherever the women's squad play, lone has a capableness of 6,000.
Barça person spent the past 2 seasons playing astatine the Olympic Stadium successful the metropolis portion Camp Nou is revamped.
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The archetypal program was to instrumentality successful November of 2024, but that day has been perpetually pushed back, with Barça yet saying earlier this period they would play the Joan Gamper Trophy there.
The Catalan broadside aimed to play the crippled arsenic a adust tally for the stadium earlier the LaLiga play starts, with the capableness if the crippled does spell up astatine Camp Nou apt to beryllium capped astatine 20,000 to 30,000.
Barça past would person had a period earlier their archetypal location league crippled of the play against Valencia astatine the commencement of September aft LaLiga granted them support to play their archetypal 3 matches connected the road.
Work volition proceed connected the stadium passim this play with completion not expected until astatine the earliest the commencement of the 2026-27 season.
In the meantime, the program is for Barça's location games successful the upcoming run to beryllium played with a reduced attendance of betwixt 50,000 and 60,000.
