After more than a year and a half of work, Camp Nou is still not operational. If the completion of the global site was initially announced for the summer of 2026, the enclosure was also supposed to be able to welcome the public well before that. But the announcements made last October by the institutional vice-president of the Blaugrana club, Elena Fort, were contradicted by reality. In fact, FC Barcelona will not find its legendary speaker this season.
In an official announcement of the Catalan club relayed Thursday by
The teamit has been confirmed that until the end of the current exercise, the championship and champion league meetings “Will compete at the Olympic stadium until the end of the season”. The Hansi Flick team and its supporters will therefore continue to occupy the old stadium of Montjuic. In parallel, the renovation work on Camp Nou will continue.
A site slowed down for several reasons
One of the objectives of his work is to bring the capacity of the future stadium to 105,000 spectators. Elena Fort hoped to be able to open part of the Camp Nou which could have accommodated 62,000 people. But this will not be possible this season. Several reasons explain this delay according to the sports media, including complaints filed by several workers to denounce their working conditions. License problems concerning modernization also slowed down the whole.
