FC Barcelona accelerates the comprehensive remodeling of the Camp Nou, the main project included in the so-called Espai Barça. After the pandemic and its financial and governance problems, the Blaugrana club has already received expressions of interest from six consortiums with Spanish and international construction companies to carry out the works on the new stadium, whose value is estimated at around 900 million euros, according to knowledgeable market sources.
Two more have recently joined the four alliances, also led by foreign groups. These are the Vinci gala and the Turkish Limak, who will thus compete with the Spanish giants, Acciona, FCC, Ferrovial and Sacyr, united for this tender to Catalan construction companies.
The official deadlines managed by FC Barcelona propose the presentation of offers by the construction companies in the middle of next October. The idea runs by making a first screening of four consortiums and then select, foreseeably in the month of December, the winning proposal. Once selected, Barça’s claim is that the works begin in January, with completion estimated for the summer of 2026. The tender, however, faces its final phases without the club having yet closed the full financing of the project, for which it has negotiated in recent years with Goldman Sachs and whose budget has grown significantly with respect to initial estimates -from around 600 million euros it has gone to around 900 million euros-.
The reform of the Camp Nou is the largest initiative within the so-called Espai Barça (Barça Space), the proposal of FC Barcelona to redevelop the surroundings of the Camp Nou
The four consortiums that already entered the process to build the new Camp Nou two years ago – and that remain. They were those made up of Acciona and Copcisa; FCC and Comsa; Ferrovial, Rubau and Copisa; and Sacyr, Acsa (Sorigué) and the Belgian Bexis. After its postponement, the club now chaired by Joan Laporta has resumed the project and has also attracted the alliances made up of the French Vinci and its subsidiary in Spain Cobra, acquired on December 31 from ACS, and by the Turkish Limak and the Spanish engineering Ghesa, controlled by China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC), and the Barcelona construction company Vopi4.
The reform of the Camp Nou is the largest initiative within the so-called Espai Barça (Barça Space), the proposal of FC Barcelona to redevelop the surroundings of the Camp Nou in Barcelona. The remodeling will involve increasing the capacity to 105,053 spectators and the installation of a 50,000-square-meter deck.
All the consortia have experience in the construction of large soccer stadiums in the world. FCC is currently building the new Santiago Bernabéu for Real Madrid and years ago it did the same with the Wanda Metropolitano for Atlético de Madrid. He also did the Allianz Arena in Munich. Its partner for the Camp Nou, Comsa, is responsible for the new Johan Cruyff stadium in San Juan Despí (Barcelona), a substitute for the Miniestadi. Ferrovial, for its part, carried out the remodeling of the Camp Nou in 1997 and has built multiple stadiums such as Los Cármenes, in Granada, Anoeta, in San Sebastián, the Estadio Deportivo del Mediterráneo, in Almería, or the Olímpico de Radès, in Tunisia. Acciona, for its part, has to its credit the new San Mamés, in Bilbao, and Sacyr was chosen two years ago to carry out various works for the Pan American Games in Lima (Peru). As for Vinci, the French group executed the Saint-Denis stadium, in Paris, or the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, in Istanbul, and Limak has also built stadiums such as the Mersin Arena in Turkey.
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