Barcelona is expected to return to the Spotify Camp Nou during the 2025-26 season, although the planned date can be reduced.
It was more than two years ago that the Espai Barca project started, and despite the first plans for the first team of Barcelona to play matches in their home stadium in November 2024, it soon became impossible. Further plans for a return in February and May of this year were also canceled, with the new idea that Joan Gamper Trophy is next month's curtain increase.
However, those plans were also deleted, where Barcelona hoped to be back in the Spotify Camp Nou for their first home game of the La Liga season 2025-26, which was against Valencia in September.
However, there is now a chance that this is not possible, with sport that reports that the game can be played instead in the Estadi Johan Cruyff, where Barca Atletic usually plays their luminaires.
Barcelona still hopes to be back in the Spotify Camp Nou for the MD4 collision, but it will be less and less likely. That is why alternative options have been drawn up, where the best solution is to play the match in the 6000-capacity arena.
In the past two seasons, Barcelona has played in the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Company in Montjuic, but the stadium has an event for the weekend of the Valencia match, therefore it cannot be played there.
Recently, Joan Laporta, president of Barcelona, admitted that he does not know when Barcelona will be able to return to the Spotify Camp Nou, which is very disturbing not just because the plans are very much behind schedule, but also considering that the stadium will considerably help to increase the income, who will help the harmful financial situation of the club.