December 11 – Barcelona will make a decision in January whether to move from the iconic Nou Camp stadium, their home for more than half a century.
The club’s board of directors, who commissioned a report over the viability of instead extending the current ground from 99,000 to 105,000, will announce their preferred option in the New Year.
Board spokesman Toni Freixa explained on the club’s official website that the choices were either “the construction of a new stadium on the land on Diagonal, property which belongs to the University of Barcelona, or a profound remodelling project that would constitute a new stadium keeping the current structure of the Camp Nou.”
Both would have a capacity of 105,000 with a roof and Freixa added: “It needs to be viable from a technical perspective, urbanist and economic. We would never submit a project that would endanger the sustainability of the club.”
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