Camp Nou Stadium
Introduction
The Camp Nou, currently called Spotify Camp Nou for sponsorship reasons,[12] is a sports venue, owned by the Fútbol Club Barcelona, located in the Les Corts district of the city of Barcelona, Spain. It was inaugurated on September 24, 1957. With a capacity of 99,354, it is the stadium with the largest capacity in Europe and the third in the world.[13] The renovation that is being carried out will foreseeably increase the capacity to 105,000.[14].
The capacity of the stadium has varied from its initial capacity of around 90,000 seats to its maximum capacity of 120,000 spectators with the construction of the third tier for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. elite».[16][17].
History of the Camp Nou
Contenido
La necesidad de construir un nuevo estadio surgió a principios de los años 1950 con la eclosión de la difusión del fútbol en España y la llegada al club en 1951 de Ladislao Kubala.[18] Pese a que el antiguo Camp de Les Corts contaba con 60 000 localidades, se quiso construir otro con una capacidad de alrededor de 90 000 espectadores que diera cabida a los miles de aficionados que querían asistir a los partidos del conjunto culé y convertir el nuevo estadio en uno de los más grandes y majestuosos del mundo.
Construction
The Camp Nou was promoted and built during the mandate of President Francisco Miró-Sans.[19] The project was commissioned to the architect Francesc Mitjans, Miró-Sans' first cousin and his neighbor, since they lived in the same building on Amigó Street in Barcelona, also built by Mitjans. The first stone was laid on March 28, 1954 and had an initial budget of 67,000,000 pesetas. However, problems in construction, mainly derived from unforeseen anomalies in the subsoil, delayed the completion and above all made it more expensive to the 288,000,000 that it finally cost, to which the acquisition of land around it also contributed. The club hoped to cover the expense with the sale of the Les Corts field, but it took Barcelona City Council ten years to reclassify it, which led to a period of certain economic scarcity. Finally, the head of the Spanish state and government at that time, Francisco Franco, authorized the reclassification of the Les Corts lands and put an end to the crisis of the Barcelona entity.[20][21].