Barça announce plans to return to 62,000 capacity Camp Nou before end of year

FC Barcelona are planning to return to the Camp Nou before the end of the year. 

The Catalan giants are working to return to their home stadium before the end of the year with 62,000 seats in the ground, although club officials avoided putting an exact date when that would be. 

The club have three home games scheduled for December – against Las Palmas on the weekend of December 1, against Leganés on the weekend of December 15, and a mouthwatering clash against Atletico Madrid one week later. 

However, depending on the circumstances, it’s also still possible that the move-in date is postponed to early 2025. 

At a press conference at Barça’s facilities on Monday morning, club vice president Elena Fort explained that the club has presented its plans to local authorities and footballing governing bodies to organize the transition. 

Half-season tickets

There will be a total of 62,000 seats in the stadium, and 45,000 of those will be reserved for half-season ticket holders for La Liga games, a figure slightly reduced to 40,000 for Champions League matches. 

As the club are currently playing in the Olympic Stadium, Barcelona had to change the season ticket model as Montjuïc held fewer people than season ticket holders the club had. For the Olympic Stadium period, fans were allowed to pause their season tickets if they wanted to, while others continued to pay and attend games. 

In total, 17,699 fans took up the option to watch Barça in Montjuïc. Those fans will only have to confirm that they want to continue attending games at the Spotify Camp Nou, while the rest will be entered into a draw for the right to purchase a half-season ticket, if necessary. 

Fans will be able to put their name down for tickets from October 11 to 23, with the draw made on October 24. Only one draw will be made, it won’t be done on a per-game basis, and those fans will be able to purchase half season tickets for the remainder of the 2024/25 campaign. 

As for prices for these draws, fans will be charged for half of the season, and this will include the second half of the La Liga season, the latter stages of the Champions League group stage and knockout stage, and the Copa del Rey. 

For a half-season ticket, fans will pay between €260 for the lower stand behind each goal, all the way up to €755 in the main stand. 

In the meantime, full season ticket packages will remain suspended until the works are finished in the summer of 2026. 

How will the new Camp Nou look?

Fans will return to a Spotify Camp Nou stadium that is still being worked on, with some elements provisional and other parts definitive. 

The seats that fans will sit on for games will be the finally finished ones that will be in the stadium permanently. 

However, access controls to enter the ground will be provisional temporary ones. 

All of the final lighting fixtures will be installed when fans return, as will the bathrooms.

The new stadium will have restaurants inside it, and the grounds outside will have 200 parking places.