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title: "Barcelona leaves Camp Nou again: roof reconstruction, move to the Olympic Stadium and €510m from Spotify"
description: "Due to the roof reconstruction at Camp Nou, Barcelona will move to the Olympic Stadium by the 2027/28 season. The club approved €510m from Spotify to complete the works in time for the 2029 Champions League Final."
date: 2026-09-22T19:50:00.000Z
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tags: [barcelona, camp-nou, stadium-renovation, uefa-champions-league, la-liga, olympic-stadium, spotify]
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# Barcelona leaves Camp Nou again: roof reconstruction, move to the Olympic Stadium and €510m from Spotify

![FC Barcelona fans at Camp Nou stadium creating a tifo before a match](https://xab.info/media/2026/09/23/barselona-kamp-nou-pereezd-olympijskij-stadion-rekonstrukciya-kryshi/barselona-kamp-nou-pereezd-olympijskij-stadion-rekonstrukciya-kryshi-1.webp)

## 🎯 Key Points

- Barcelona will finish the 2025/26 season at Camp Nou with a limited capacity of 62,000 seats, and will start the 2027/28 season at the Olympic Stadium due to the roof installation
- The return to Camp Nou is scheduled for January 2028 (95,000 seats), while the maximum capacity of 105,000 will be reached by the 2028/29 season
- The club approved an additional €510m package from Spotify: €300m for construction and €210m for media bonds backed by La Liga and UEFA broadcasting rights
- UEFA has designated the renovated Camp Nou as the venue for the 2029 Champions League Final — for the first time in 30 years

Catalonia's Barcelona has been forced to temporarily leave the renovated Camp Nou once more ahead of the 2027/28 season. The reason for the latest move is the need for a large-scale reconstruction of the arena's roof. Thus, the legendary stadium, which has already gone through a phase of construction and reduced capacity, once again becomes the site of building works, while the team becomes an unwilling guest on other people's pitches.

### Current season: playing on a reduced arena

According to available information, Barcelona will finish the current 2025/26 season at Camp Nou, but fans will have to accept a significantly limited capacity. The arena's capacity will be cut to 62,000 seats — in effect, the team will host its opponents on only two tiers of the stands. This means that a significant portion of the stadium's upper sections will remain closed to spectators for the remainder of the season's matches.

### Move to the Olympic Stadium and the return timeline

Barcelona will start the 2027/28 season at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona — the very arena that hosted matches of the 1992 World Cup and the Olympic Games. The move is driven by the installation of a new roof at Camp Nou, which will require the complete closure of the upper sections. The team's return to its home ground is scheduled for January 2028, by which time the stadium will have 95,000 seats. And from the 2028/29 season, Barcelona plans to reach its maximum design capacity of 105,000 spectators.

### 2029 Champions League Final: a critical deadline

Meeting the reconstruction deadlines is critically important not only for the club but for European football as a whole. Last week, UEFA officially announced that in 2029 the renovated Camp Nou will host the Champions League Final — for the first time in 30 years. This makes the timely completion of all construction work, including the roof installation and bringing the capacity up to design levels, a matter of reputation not only for the Catalan club but for the entire Spanish football infrastructure.

### Funding: €510m from Spotify and media bonds

To cover schedule delays and expand the scale of the works, the club's members approved an additional funding package of €510m (around $585m) from Spotify. Of this amount, €300m will be directed directly to completing the construction work at Camp Nou. A further €210m is planned to be spent on issuing media bonds — a financial instrument with a maturity of up to 10 years, secured by La Liga and UEFA broadcasting rights. According to the source, the total cost of the arena's renovation has reached the €2bn mark.

### Contradictory data

The provided sources contain a number of details that require clarification. First, Spotify's role as a source of €510m in funding for the stadium's construction work looks atypical for a music streaming service and may point to a complex deal structure (naming, partnership or financial instrument), the details of which have not been disclosed in open sources. Second, the total estimate of €2bn mentioned in the headline of one source and the specific €510m package approved by the club's members describe different budget levels: the former is cumulative, the latter is incremental. The exact funding structure and the parties' obligations are not currently confirmed by an independent audit.

Thus, Barcelona is entering a new phase of the multi-year transformation of its main stadium. For fans, this means at least one more season at a temporary venue, but in the long term — one of Europe's largest football stadiums with a capacity of 105,000 and the status of a venue for the Champions League Final.

## 🔍 Fact-Check Verification

- [Barcelona flees Camp Nou again: the arena's renovation estimate has reached €2bn](https://sport.rbc.ua/ukr/football/barselona-znovu-vtikae-kamp-nou-koshtoris-1790106379.html) - Основной источник фактов: сроки переезда, вместимость, финансирование 510 млн евро, финал ЛЧ-2029. Общая смета 2 млрд евро упомянута в заголовке.
- [Barcelona announces the exact date of its return to Camp Nou](https://korrespondent.net/sport/football/4833221-barselona-soobschyla-tochnuui-datu-svoeho-vozvraschenyia-na-kamp-nou) - Корреспондирует с датой возвращения в январе 2028 года, указанной в основном тексте.
- [Barcelona may leave Camp Nou again: the reason has been revealed](https://www.ua-football.com/foreign/spain/1784017057-barselona-mozhet-snova-pokinut-kamp-nou-stala-izvestna-prichina.html) - Подтверждает причину переезда (реконструкция крыши) и факт временного покидания арены.
- [The legendary Camp Nou is being demolished: what is happening to Barcelona's stadium](https://www.sport-express.ru/football/spain/reviews/kamp-nou-barselona-snos-i-rekonstrukciya-stadiona-v-stolice-katalonii-kak-vyglyadit-seychas-na-foto-2111136/?mob) - Общий контекст о ходе реконструкции стадиона. Формулировка «сносят» в заголовке является публицистической, фактические работы — реконструкция и модернизация.

## ❓ FAQ

### Q: Why is Barcelona leaving Camp Nou again?
**A:** The reason is the need to reconstruct the stadium's roof. The club will play at the Olympic Stadium from the start of the 2027/28 season until January 2028, when the roof installation is completed.

### Q: How many seats will Camp Nou have in the current season?
**A:** Capacity is limited to 62,000 seats — the team will host matches on two tiers of the stands. After the return in January 2028, the capacity will be 95,000, and from the 2028/29 season — 105,000 seats.

### Q: What funds have been allocated to complete the reconstruction?
**A:** The club's members approved an additional €510m package from Spotify: €300m to complete the construction work and €210m to issue media bonds with a term of up to 10 years, secured by La Liga and UEFA broadcasting rights.

### Q: Why are the completion deadlines critical?
**A:** UEFA has designated the renovated Camp Nou as the venue for the 2029 Champions League Final — for the first time in 30 years. All work must be completed by this deadline.