World Sports: Barcelona will find it difficult to return to Camp Nou when vs. Valencia, and may be postponed to return to Getafe

"World Sports" published an article reporting the stadium of Barcelona's first home game this season.

Barcelona's first home game week of the 2025-26 season is about to begin, and the venue selection cannot be postponed. After the Barcelona city government completed a new round of engineering inspections at Camp Nou on Tuesday afternoon, the club will make a decision and announce it to the public. Barcelona has not yet obtained the final certificate of conformity for the project. The document needs to be submitted to the city government to obtain the first phase of the Camp Nou, so Sunday's game against Valencia is very likely to be held at the Cruyff Stadium. However, after the club's joint meeting this morning, Barcelona still prepared for both plans at the same time.

La Liga approved Barcelona to host the match at San Juanderzpi last Friday, but it required a series of adaptive transformations, which is not difficult for the club. It includes installing a dedicated VAR camera for the first-tier league, laying optical fiber to avoid repeating the communication failure of Vallecano against Barcelona, ​​and improving the lawn irrigation system. In view of the confirmed positive progress, La Liga representatives will return to the Cruyff Stadium this week for final condition verification.

At present, it would be almost a miracle to hold Barcelona against Valencia at Camp Nou (only 27,000 seats open, including the main stand and some south stands). All departments of the club are on standby, and the countdown will be held for preparation regardless of the final venue.

Club has begun to deal with all-round differences between different stadiums, such as security, private rooms, VIP seats, news stands, etc. The ticket allocation plan that members are most concerned about (the Cruyff Stadium capacity is 6,000 seats) will be announced first, and the season ticket pricing strategy will be explained later. But it still depends on whether Camp Nou can open in time, the specific time and tolerance conditions, etc., or whether it needs to return to the Olympic Stadium for the third time.

Barcelona may return to the Olympic Stadium as early as September 21 against Getafe, with plenty of time to lay the lawn after the Post Malone concert (Friday, September 12). But according to the club's expectations, the game may also be held at the Camp Nou. If the approval of the license is delayed, it is not even ruled out that the use of the Cruyff Stadium will be continued. All possibilities are not ruled out, and the club will gradually release a series of announcements starting this week.