Barcelona to play all Women’s Champions League matches at Camp Nou | OneFootball

Barcelona Femení will play all of their Women’s Champions League matches at Camp Nou this season.

The side normally compete at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, a 6,000-capacity venue in the club’s training club complex.

They played at Camp Nou twice last season, setting a world record attendance for a women’s football match both times.

Following the success of these matches, Xavier Puig, the women’s football director at Barcelona, told Catalunya Radio about the club’s upcoming plans.

“The idea is to be able to play the entire women’s Champions League at Camp Nou,” he revealed.

Barcelona’s quarter-final clash against Real Madrid in the Women’s Champions League drew 91,553 fans to the Camp Nou.

This world record crowd for a women’s football match was surpassed just a few weeks later, with 91,648 turning up to watch Barcelona play Wolfsburg in the semi-final.

After getting past Wolfsburg in the last four, Barcelona played Lyon in the final at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. The defending champions were slight favourites to win, but suffered a shock 3-1 loss.

Despite this, fans should still turn out in their droves to watch Barcelona play Europe’s best at the Camp Nou this season.

The team are one of the most dominant in women’s football, going unbeaten in the Primera Iberdrola last season with 159 goals scored and just 11 goals conceded.

With stars such as Mapi León, Aitana Bonmatí and Caroline Graham Hansen already in the squad, Barcelona have strengthened with impressive signings such as Lucy Bronze and Geyse Ferreira.

The club will also be hoping the injured Alexia Putellas makes her return towards the end of the season.

Barcelona, Lyon, Chelsea and Wolfsburg have all earned automatic qualification for this season’s Champions League group stage, with teams such as Arsenal, Real Madrid and PSG set to play in the qualifying play-offs next month.

The group stage will then get underway in October, with the final set to take place at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven in June 2023.