Official: Barça will return to play at the Johan Cruyff stadium this Sunday.
Hansi Flick's team will face Getafe in front of a 6,000-seat crowd because they still don't have permission to return to the Camp Nou.
BarcelonaBarça has officially announced that this Sunday's 9 p.m. La Liga match against Getafe will be played at the Johan Cruyff Stadium. This will be a repeat of the performance that served Hansi Flick's team so well last Sunday. when they defeated Valencia 6-0 with a splendid game. The reason for this new delay in returning to Camp Nou is that Barça still does not have the initial occupancy permit from Barcelona City Council, which has not yet received all the necessary documentation from the club.
This news had been taken for granted for days in the offices of Arístides Maillol. Barça had already moved pieces so that this weekend's Barça Atlético - Castellón Second RFEF match, which will also be played at the Johan Cruyff, would be played on Monday and thus not overlap with the first team's match at the same venue. The capacity for the match between Barça and Getafe will once again be 6,000 spectators, a figure below the minimum allowed by La Liga regulations, which will once again make an exception as this is an exceptional case.
"Of the 16,151 members with full season tickets for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 seasons at Montjuïc, those who were unable to attend the last matchday 4 of La Liga against Valencia CF will be given priority," explains the Barça statement. "In this way, members who were not selected in the ticket draw and were unable to purchase tickets during the subsequent sales period will have 24-hour priority [starting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday the 17th] to purchase tickets for the match. After the 24-hour sales period for members with two full seasons at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys who were not awarded a ticket," the club continues.
From now on, Barça's new objective is to return to Camp Nou to play the La Liga match against Real Sociedad on Sunday, September 28th at 9 p.m. The possibility of moving to the Estadio Olímpico Lluís Companys for this match is very complicated because that same night there is the La Mercè fireworks festival in Montjuïc.