Camp Nou

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Nou Camp)
Jump to: navigation, search

Coordinates: 41°22′51.20″N, 2°7′22.19″E

Camp Nou

UEFA

Location Barcelona, Spain
Broke ground March 28, 1954
Opened 24 September 1957
Owner FC Barcelona
Operator FC Barcelona
Surface Grass (105x68 m)
Construction cost 288 million pesetas
Architect Francesc Mitjans-Miró
Lorenzo García Barbon
Josep Soteras Mauri
Tenants
FC Barcelona (La Liga) 1957 - present
Capacity
98,772[1]

The Camp Nou (Catalan for "new field", often reversed to become Nou Camp) is a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It has a capacity of 98,772, making it the largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is the home ground of FC Barcelona. Its official name was Estadi del FC Barcelona (FC Barcelona Stadium) until 2000, when the club membership voted to change the official name to the popular nickname, Camp Nou.[2]

Opposite 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.

Contents

Barcelona had outgrown their old stadium [3], Camp de Les Corts which held 60,000 supporters and the Camp Nou, 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 capacity has varied between 17 at its opening to 120,000 for the 1982 FIFA World Cup before the outlawing of standing sections at the stadium brought the capacity to below 99,000 in the late 1990s.

Camp Nou on matchday hosting a match between Barcelona and Levante on April 29, 2007.
Camp Nou on matchday hosting a match between Barcelona and Levante on April 29, 2007.
The inside of the Camp Nou
The inside of the Camp Nou
The outside of the Camp Nou
The outside of the Camp Nou
One of the stands displaying Barcelona's motto, Més que un club meaning more than a club.
One of the stands displaying Barcelona's motto, Més que un club meaning more than a club.
Exterior
Exterior

The stadium's facilities include a memorabilia shop, mini pitches for training matches, and a chapel for players. The stadium also houses the most visited museum in Catalonia, El Museu del Barça, which 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. The inauguration ceremony of the 1982 World Cup was held on June 13. In front of a 100,000-strong crowd, Belgium beat Argentina 1-0.

Camp Nou has been host to other important events outside the sphere of football. Notable music artists who have performed in the stadium include:

Pope John Paul II celebrated mass with a congregation of over 120,000 at Camp Nou on November 17, 1982.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the stadium, the club issued and international tender for architects to develop a project for re-modelling the stadium. The aim of the project was 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.

On September 18, 2007, British architect Norman Foster and his company was selected to "restructure" the Camp Nou. The plans include an extra 10,000 seats to be added and the estimated cost is €250 million.[4]

Gates

Entrance

Logo and stadium

  1. ^ FC Barcelona Information Official club website
  2. ^ 68.25% vote to change name to Camp Nou Official website
  3. ^ History of Camp Nou Official website
  4. ^ Norman Foster will restructure the Camp Nou Official website
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Nou"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.