The Camp Nou is a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It has a capacity of 98,772. The stadium is the home ground of FC Barcelona. It has the tenth largest capacity in the world, and the largest capacity in Europe. Its official name was Estadi del FC Barcelona (translates as FC Barcelona Stadium) until 2000, when the club membership vote to change the official name to the popular nick name Camp Nou.

     
Opposite the Camp Nou is the Palau Blaugrana, the stadium for indoor sports and adjacent is the Ice Rink, the stadium for ice based sports. Just Behind the complex is the Mini Estadi, the stadium where the FC Barcelona B plays its games. The stadium, built between 1954 and 1957, was designed by architects Francesc Mitjans-Miró, Lorenzo García Barbon and Josep Soteras Mauri. FC Barcelona won their first game at Camp Nou in impressive fashion, a 4-2 victory against Legia Warsaw with Eulogio Martínez scoring the first goal at the new stadium. Over 90,000 fans were present at this momentous occasion.

The stadium consists of facilities such as a memorabilia shop, mini pitches for training matches, and a quaint little chapel for players to seek divine assistance before matches. At the stadium stands the most visited museum at Catalonia: El Museu del Barça receives about 1.200.000 visits per year. The museum was inaugurated in 1984 under the presidence of Josep Lluís Nuñez. The museum shows 1.420 pieces about FC Barcelona's history, of which 420 are trophies of all the FC Barcelona sections. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the stadium, the club is currently calling for an international tender for architects to develop a project for re-modelling the stadium. The aim of the project is to turn the stadium into an integrated and highly visible urban environment. Whilst not aiming for a substantial increase in seating capacity, proposals must accommodate a minimum of 50% of seats to be under cover.

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City:  Barcelona
Country: Spain
 
   
 
 
 
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