Camp Nou will start to be comprehensively upgraded from mid-2023. It is expected that it can return to welcome fans from the middle of the 2024-2025 season. However, according to the team's leadership, this process is longer than expected and Camp Nou can only return as early as possible at the beginning of next season.
In fact, the resumption of the Camp Nou stadium has been delayed many times. At first, fans still believed that the upgrade process only took 1 year. However, the time has been doubled, nearly three times. This unintentionally caused outrage among some of Cule.
Barcelona has sent emails to fans who have bought tickets for the whole season, saying that those season tickets will be extended at Lluis Companys until the end of the season. All of Barca's remaining matches in the Champions League and La Liga are held here. However, this announcement does not include the official return of Camp Nou, so in case of bad weather, fans of the team will have to watch the players play at Lluis Companys for longer.
If Camp Nou returns and all infrastructure is completed as outlined, it will have a maximum capacity of 105,000 people (the largest in Europe).
Initially, Barca planned to reopen Camp Nou on the occasion of the club's 125th anniversary (November 2024). After that, announcements of postponing the plan to reopen Camp Nou were made consecutively. Up to now, there have been at least 3 postponement notices sent to fans and there may be more in the future.
Not only the framework of Camp Nou, Barca also wants to renovate the entire surrounding infrastructure system. The club has committed to partner Limak to handing over the entire site for completion in June 2026. The total value of this project is up to 900 million Euros. This is a huge number when looking at Barcelona's financial situation in recent years.
The move to Lluis Companys forced Barca to make a financial trade-off. Before that, they had 80,274 fans buying tickets seasonally. However, this figure is now only 17,552. The capacity of Lluis Companys Stadium is also unremarkable, reaching nearly 56,000 people.
Currently, Barcelona is still competing for the championship in La Liga and the Champions League. If they can be crowned, the joy will not be completely complete when the celebration is not held at the camp Nou sanctuary.
