23,000 fans pay to attend Barcelona’s first training session at the renovated Camp Nou

Barcelona sold 23,000 tickets on Friday for a team training session in the modernized Camp Nou stadium.

It will be the first time that Barcelona appear on the Camp Nou pitch since the last match there in May 2023.

The club said tickets were sold out. They cost 5 euros ($6) for club members and 10 euros ($12) for the general public.

Work began on upgrading Camp Nou in June 2023, at a cost of around 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to expand capacity at Europe’s largest football venue from just under 100,000 to 105,000.

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The club hoped to resume matches in November 2024, to mark the club’s 125th anniversary. But this is hampered by delays in work and obtaining permits. Club president Joan Laporta said this week that he hopes to have matches at Camp Nou this month.

The team has been playing in the municipal Olympic Stadium with 55,000 seats since the start of the 2023/24 season.

Hansi Flick’s team is practicing for Sunday’s La Liga match.

Published on November 6, 2025