Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Nou Camp


Club: FC Barcelona
Opening: 1957
Capacity: 99,354 seats

Nou Camp was built between 1954 and 1957, and officially opened on the 24th of September 1957 with a match between FC Barcelona and a selection of players from the city of Warsaw.
Nou Camp initially consisted of two tiers that could hold 93,000 spectators. It was first called Estadi del FC Barcelona, but got soon referred to as Nou Camp.
With a capacity of close to 99,000, the Nou Camp is the largest club-owned stadium on the planet, and is frequently packed to capacity for football matches featuring the Barcelona team.
The architects were a team made up of Francesc Mitjans, Josep Soteras, and Lorenzo García-Barbón.


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