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Barça to make Camp Nou comeback after lengthy delay
The Guardian
|November 18, 2025
Barcelona will finally play at the Camp Nou for the first time since May 2023. The club announced they have been granted a licence to occupy 45,401 seats of the renovated stadium, which is yet to be completed, against Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.
The announcement comes after a series of missed targets and 10 days after a test run in which a training session there was attended by more than 20,000 supporters. The stadium will carry the name Spotify after a €280m title rights deal was agreed in 2022.
Barcelona were granted an occupation licence for phase 1B of the construction of the new Camp Nou yesterday, allowing them to open the main stand and south end against Athletic, a year later than scheduled.
A request has been made to Uefa to allow them to change their designated home ground from the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium at Montjuïc, where they have played for the past two seasons, to the new stadium for the rest of their Champions League campaign. They hope to be able to play at the Camp Nou against Eintracht Frankfurt on 9 December.
This story is from the November 18, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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