Many doubts nonetheless encompass FC Barcelona’s first house match of the 2025-26 season, scheduled for the weekend of 13-14 September in opposition to Valencia.
La Liga has but to substantiate the precise date of the fourth-round fixture, and it stays unsure whether or not the sport will be performed on the Spotify Camp Nou as supposed amid continued delays.
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The potential of at Camp Nou is being thought of whereas different options, , are being explored.
La Liga not against no spectators at stadium for the sport
Now, in line with , La Liga wouldn’t object if the match have been staged behind closed doorways at Spotify Camp Nou, offered the Metropolis Council grants Barcelona the First Occupancy Licence.
This licence would permit the stadium to host solely the important actors wanted for the match: gamers, referees, TV crews, and operational workers. The approaching days will probably be decisive as Barça resolve the place to carry the sport.
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Taking part in on the Estadi Olimpic in Montjuic is not possible that weekend as a result of Publish Malone is scheduled to carry out there on Friday, 12 September. For now, all the things hinges on the Metropolis Council’s ruling, primarily based on the newest report on the Camp Nou redevelopment works.
Barcelona may host Valencia behind closed doorways. (Photograph by David Ramos/Getty Photos)
Barcelona haven’t but submitted the Remaining Works Certificates, which is required earlier than the Council can course of the First Occupancy Licence. That licence is essential to authorise matches on the new stadium, even with a limited-capacity crowd.
There stays the likelihood that Barcelona could possibly be authorised to play the sport with out followers, if the Council approves.
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This may nonetheless require La Liga’s ratification of the stadium’s working licence, making certain that the venue can safely host the minimal vital personnel.
In such a case, Barça may host Valencia at their house floor in distinctive circumstances – a state of affairs harking back to matches in the course of the COVID period.
The precedent of 1 October 2017 additionally looms massive. On that day, within the midst of Catalonia’s independence referendum, Barça performed in opposition to Las Palmas at an empty Camp Nou.
The membership determined to close the doorways in protest, citing “the shortage of freedoms,” after La Liga and the Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) refused to postpone the match.