Barcelona Football Club plans to return to Camp Nou stadium on August 10, after two years of reconstruction, club president Joan Laporta announced in a television interview.
The Catalan club played its home games at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona during the renovations, and in the meantime won the Spanish La Liga title. The reconstruction of the Camp Nou is expected to have a capacity of 105.000 seats, making it the largest football stadium in Europe.
The original plan was for Barcelona to return to the partially completed stadium in November 2024, but the club announced in February that it hoped to play the first matches by the end of this season, in front of around 60.000 spectators.
In the same February update, it was announced that the project would be fully completed by the end of the 2025/26 season, when the roof is scheduled to be installed.
The Camp Nou is one of the potential candidates to host the 2030 World Cup finals, which will be jointly organised by Spain, Portugal and Morocco. However, the renovated Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid and a future 115.000-seat stadium planned for Casablanca, Morocco, are mentioned as more likely candidates to host the final.
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