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After more than two years in which the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium It has served as a temporary refuge, The return of Barcelona home is much closer. In fact, the entity that Joan Laporta presides announced Wednesday that the Barca team will return to Camp Nou on August 10.

The dispute of Joan Gamper Trophy It will mark the partial reopening of the spotify Camp Nou within the project of transformation of Espai Barça. It will thus end a long wait in which the fans of the culé team have had to move to Montjuïc to witness the evolutions of the block directed by the German Hansi Flick since last summer, while the workers hired by the Turkish construction company Limak worked in the remodeling of the Barca temple.

After more than two years of deep reformCamp Nou will open its doors again in the heart of Les Corts to host the Barça parish again, which will face the course with the aim of revalidating the titles of the League, Copa del Rey and Supercop Inter from Milan in the semifinals, which prevented them from continuing to dream of rounding a practically perfect course.

The return to Camp Nou will, however, partially, since It will occur while the works of the new enclosure continueso it will be necessary to live with performances in different areas of the stadium, according to Barça, which has not confirmed the rival to which the same or the capacity with which it will have the return to action will be confirmed, although the avant -garde points out that it will be available 60,000 seats since the idea of ​​the club is to open the first two stands. Among the parts still pending completion are The construction of the new third tier, the double VIP ring, the installation of the roof, as well as the final adaptation of some interior spaces and the exterior urbanization of the stadium environment. Therefore, Barça affects that he will work to guarantee the maximum comfort to partners, partners and hobby that visit the Spotify Camp Nou, facilitating access and adapting services to offer the best possible experience, while the project is completed.

After that symbolic baptism of the new Camp Nou, Barça will have a clean month of matches to advance the works, since the culé entity has requested LaLiga Dispute the first three days of the regularity tournament away from home to continue with the tuning of the enclosure and be able to face there also the Champions League phase that will begin on September 16.

Investment of 1,450 million euros

The Camp Nou renewal project was launched in 2007during the previous mandate of Joan Laporta as president of Barça, but he stopped after the change of directive and returned to resume more than a decade later. The works began in June 2023which caused Barça’s temporary transfer to Montjuïc.

According to the figures presented by Barça to its partners, the reform of the enclosure will cost 1,450 million eurosfigure that will cover, in addition to the stadium, All the Barça facilities located in the area of ​​Les Corts (Mini Estadi) and the Palau Blaugrana. To undertake the project, the Culé club signed financing agreements with a total of 20 different investors, among which are Key Capital Partners or JP Morgan.

The initial objective of the Board headed by Laporta was to have completely finished the new Camp Nou in November 2024, which would have allowed Barça to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the club at home, but the difficulties of the project were delaying the planned plan and still There is no official date for the complete completion of the works. In any case, the advances are sufficient to allow a partial reopening on August 10 that will allow Barça fans to meet the stadium to which they perform pleitesia.