Barcelona’s £1.25billion ‘biggest sports stadium in Europe’ hit by fresh delay with key feature pushed back to 2026

BARCELONA’S instrumentality to the Nou Camp has been delayed again, with the nine present acceptable to enactment distant until 2026.

The task volition spot the iconic stadium’s capableness grow to 105,000 up from 99,354.

The Nou Camp’s demolition has drawn mixed absorption from fansAlamy

The stadium was reduced to a skeletonGetty

Barcelona person recovered a impermanent location astatine Estadi Olimpic Lluis CompanysGetty

It was owed to beryllium completed successful clip for the club’s 125th day past November.

There has been a caller delay, though, according to Spanish sports news tract Relevo, who study the earliest instrumentality is present slated to beryllium October 2025.

This caller hold follows an earlier propulsion backmost to this month.

Relevo besides accidental the stadium’s roof volition not beryllium installed until summer of 2026.

The Blaugrana person been playing distant from location since May 2023, holding location matches astatine Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, which holds conscionable 54,367 supporters.

This has seen Barcelona instrumentality a important deed connected matchday revenue, not helping their already rocky finances.

An nonfiction posted connected Barcelona’s website successful October 2024 claimed the instrumentality to the stadium was ‘imminent’.

The melodramatic rebuild has seen the stadium gutted, leaving down conscionable the factual skeleton of the stadium arsenic a foundation.

Barcelona person played astatine the iconic Nou Camp since it opened successful 1957.

Barcelona person invested £1.25billion into the project, which is acceptable to marque the Nou Camp the largest stadium successful Europe.

It volition bargain that rubric from London‘s Wembley Stadium which holds 90,652, besides knocking Twickenham Stadium down to 3rd place.

Only six stadiums successful Europe person a capableness of much than 80,000.

Despite becoming the largest successful Europe, Barcelona volition autumn abbreviated of their archetypal extremity to make the third-largest stadium successful the world.

The rebuild was initially intended to scope a capableness of 112,500, smaller lone than the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium successful North Korea (113,281) and Narendra Modi Stadium successful India (132,000).

Real Madrid precocious opened a redeveloped Bernabeu costing £1.5billion with a capableness of 81,000.

But they are already readying to grow it further arsenic they look to big the 2030 World Cup Final.