Barça obtains permission to extend the work schedule at the Camp Nou

FC Barcelona has already completed more than 70% of the repair of the current structure of the first and second stands of the Spotify Camp Nou.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
14 April 2024 Sunday 10:30
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Barça obtains permission to extend the work schedule at the Camp Nou

FC Barcelona has already completed more than 70% of the repair of the current structure of the first and second stands of the Spotify Camp Nou. The entity, which published a video with images of the works, explained that the creation of the new Barça stadium is progressing according to forecasts and that, if nothing goes wrong, both the first and second stands should be ready in November 2024, coinciding with the club's 125th anniversary, to open with 60 percent capacity. The third tier would be finished at the end of 2025. By then, the roof and the last finishes will remain to be finished. It is predicted that the new Camp Nou will be completely ready for the 2026-2027 season.

To achieve this, the entity has stepped on the accelerator. After several weeks of negotiating, Barça has obtained approval from Barcelona City Council and, since April 6, the works on the Spotify Camp Nou have continued from Monday to Friday from 8 in the morning until 12 at night. As a condition, the four extra hours granted are limited to tasks that are silent and without machinery to avoid the nocturnal noise that is already noticeable during the day.

The club and the City Council have also agreed that the 1,400 Limak workers can work normally and in shifts on Saturdays from 10 in the morning to 8 in the afternoon and, in an extraordinary manner, from 8 to 12 at night for work. interiors that do not require machinery.

Until now the works lasted from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with work on some Saturdays that went from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

In the coming weeks, the ground floor slab through which fans will walk to enter the venue will be visible. Furthermore, the pillars of the third stand of the Spotify Camp Nou are beginning to grow and are more visible with each passing day, so the 1957 façade will soon be surrounded by the structure of the new stand. The new stands, which will maintain a space between the current stands and the façade of the new Stadium, will show inside the facility the original construction of the architects Francesc Mitjans, José Soteras and Lorenzo García Barbón.

On April 11, the vice president of FC Barcelona, ​​Elena Fort, led a participatory session with members in which she shared the new income model. Following the American path that has inspired the new project so much, when Limak finishes the Spotify Camp Nou in 2027, Barça, behind A

The Camp Nou is intended to be a meeting point for the best companies in the sector, especially taking into account that Catalonia has 29,000 medium and large companies, a figure that places the Catalan community as the fourth European region with the largest base of companies.

Beyond VIP income, the other way to achieve the objective of generating new income is new sponsorship agreements linked to the Stadium, taking into account that the agreement with Spotify for the title rights has been the first, and an offer of markets and VIP seats of much higher quality and which will triple the current offer. In this way, it is expected that the sponsorship agreements and the new VIP offer will jointly generate around 120 million euros in annual income.