He Spotify Camp Nou is close to reopening its doors to the public. After more than a year of piecework, the Barcelona has the firm and serious intention of taking the first team to play at home again at the end of this year, although perhaps these are somewhat optimistic expectations. Of course, it would be with limited capacity and without exceeding 65,000 seats. At the moment, the new seats have begun to be installed, which have been ordered from the company EHEIM Möbel.
Because the great novelty in the works of Spotify Camp Nou that’s it The German company has already been in charge of managing and placing the seats in other important European stadiums such as the Cívitas Metropolitano, San Mamés or the Allianz Arena of Bayern Munich.
The ‘X’ account (former Twitter) @Obras_Camp_nou reports that the construction workers of the Spotify Camp Nou They have already begun to install the first seats in the stadium. Specifically in the Gol Nordwhere the seats will be red.
The institutional vice president of Barcelona, Elena Fortsaid at the beginning of the year that the club’s intention was to return to the stadium in November. That is, in two months, something that, given what we have seen, seems impossible. «If there is no imponderable, we will be here at the end of November 2024». And by imponderable he meant “a pandemic, a global catastrophe, something that, to understand us, was not in the hands of either Barça or the construction companies.”
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The idea of Barça with the Camp Nou
The idea of Barça is to play before the Atalanta next January 29 at the Camp Nou. Something that, on the other hand, seems complicated by two factors. The first of them is to know if the stadium will be ready by then; The other is article 25.08 of the regulations of the Champions League, since the UEFA It prohibits changing stadiums in the middle of the group stage, except for reasons of major cause.
The regulations of the highest European body make it very complicated that, in the event that the stadium can reopen with 60% of the capacity – as Barcelona intends – before the end of the group stage, the objective of starting the match can be met. 2025 again at the Camp Nou. In this way, Barça will have to play the four games of the league phase that it plays at home –Young Boy, Bayern Munich, Stade de Brest and Atalanta– at the Montjuic Olympic Stadium.
«We don’t want to set dates because then maybe it happens later or it could even happen sooner.. This is now a reality, you just have to visit the stadium. Despite the obstacles, I believe that by the end of the year we will be able to return. “It keeps us very excited,” he noted a few days ago. Laporta about Barcelona’s return to Camp Nou.
