The Camp Nou will not host the Gamper 2025: official announcement from FC Barcelona

What was an open secret has now been made official. FC Barcelona has announced that it will not play the Joan Gamper Trophy 2025, scheduled for August 10, at the Spotify Camp Nou.

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Barça will shortly confirm that the 2025 Gamper will not be played at the Camp Nou

The Blaugrana team has issued a statement in which it admits that the Joan Gamper Trophy cannot be held at the Camp Nou because "the execution of the necessary works to comply with the requirements of the Regulatory Ordinance of Municipal Intervention Procedures in Works has made it impossible to complete the necessary procedures for granting the first occupancy license".

In turn, the team from the Ciudad Condal has acknowledged that, given the size of the work carried out, "it has been impossible to comply with all the requirements demanded by the regulations that regulate obtaining said license." Despite Barcelona's desire to put the Spotify Camp Nou into operation.

The return to Spotify Camp Nou: postponed to September

The Catalan team assures that it is working together with the Barcelona City Council and all the necessary organizations to advance in the required procedures that allow the return to the Spotify Camp Nou. An issue about which Barça itself has reported that it will communicate to the members "all the information regarding the return date", making it clear that this delay will not affect the payment schedule planned for the repayment of the Espai Barça debt.

At this point, it is expected that Barcelona can return to the Les Corts stronghold towards the weekend of September 13-14, the date on which the Barcelona team must play its first home game in LaLiga EA Sports 2025/26. It will be a duel against Valencia CF in which it is expected to have the necessary license to occupy their home, with the capacity planned from the beginning: 60,000 spectators.

Where will the Joan Gamper Trophy 2025 be played?

Likewise, the statement concludes by confirming that the 2025 edition of the Joan Gamper Trophy, as had already been rumored, will be played at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, and that more information will be published soon.

This will be, then, the second time that Barcelona has used the Estadi Johan Cruyff to play the Joan Gamper Trophy. The first was in 2021, when the Culé team received Juventus in a match that took place on August 8 and in which the Blaugrana won 3-0, with goals from Memphis Depay, Riqui Puig and Martin Braithwaite.

Why isn't the Gamper played in Montjuïc?

It should not be forgotten that the other option that Barça could have considered to play this pre-season tournament, the Estadi Lluís Companys, will be occupied that weekend in which the Gamper is scheduled to take place. On Saturday, August 9, Montjuïc will host a concert by the K-pop band Blackpink, so the option of playing the tournament in the stadium that has been the home of the Blaugrana team for two seasons is completely ruled out.