La Liga are moving pinch Barcelona to scope a discuss complete erstwhile Hansi Flick's squad tin return to their iconic Camp Nou home.
The Spanish top-flight will return for nan 2025/26 play crossed nan play of August 17-18 pursuing an update by La Liga.
Despite nan ongoing unit placed connected nan fixture almanac by nan FIFA Club World Cup this summer, La Liga president Javier Tebas will not beryllium making an changes to nan first weekend.
Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid had reportedly requested starting a week later - to protect against overload if they spell heavy successful nan Club World Cup - but Tebas confirmed that will not happen.
As portion of a abstracted petition from Barcelona, La Liga are considering plans to let Flick's squad to play their first 3 aliases 4 games distant from home, to let nan Camp Nou renewal to yet beryllium completed.
Flick's charges won a La Liga, Copa del Rey and Spanish Supercup treble past play - each based retired of their impermanent Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys home.
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When are Barcelona returning to nan Camp Nou?
2024/25 was nan 2nd play Barcelona played distant from nan Camp Nou and contempt erstwhile promises to return astatine nan commencement of 2025 - successive targets were missed.
The task has suffered a drawstring of setbacks and delays wrong nan last building shape but nan nine are assured of being wholly operational by September.
As per reports from Marca, Tebas and La Liga are unfastened to letting Barcelona footwear disconnected their title defence pinch a fewer distant games, to thief velocity up nan process.

"If [the stadium] is ready, we'll person to ask nan engineers, architects and Barcelona. We've received nan request," he said.
"I don't cognize if it's for 3 aliases 4 matchdays, but we're considering it, it's normal for these requests to beryllium accepted.
"[Could beryllium extended?] That's much analyzable because it depends connected different clubs and nan schedule would beryllium changed significantly.
"If nan stadium isn't location [after 4 games], we'll look astatine nan business again, and they'll person to find different 1 to play in."
Tebas' comments connection Barcelona immoderate breathing abstraction connected nan business and keeps their existent plans connected track.
Barcelona are readying a aviator trial pinch nan nationalist successful mid-July, to measure entree points ahead of nan Joan Gamper Trophy, which is played connected August 9 aliases 10, arsenic nan first lucifer to beryllium hosted astatine nan caller stadium.
The wider target for a competitory return is aft nan September world break and perchance nan first information of UEFA Champions League games.
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