All you need to know about Estadi Olímpic - the new home of Barcelona

FC Barcelona have a temporary new home for the 2023/24 season, and it's a stadium that boasts a lot of history. While construction work takes place at the Spotify Camp Nou as part of an impressive refurbishment project, Los Blaugrana will play their home fixtures at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Montjuïc, a hill with beautiful gardens which overlooks the city.

With capacity for approximately 50,000 football fans, the Estadi Olímpic is still one of the largest stadiums in LALIGA EA SPORTS and FC Barcelona will hope to replicate there what they achieved last season, when they produced the best home record in the competition.

The venue was originally built in 1927 for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, so is almost 100 years old. Most famously, it was the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, while several of the other Olympic venues are situated close by in the parks of Montjuïc.

There is so much history packed into this venue and five things you may not know about the Estadi Olímpic are outlined below.

The Estadi Olímpic has hosted LALIGA football before

This stadium will host 19 LALIGA EA SPORTS matches in 2023/24, but it won't be the first time that Spanish football's top competition has visited this venue. In fact, RCD Espanyol played at this ground for over a decade, from 1997 to 2009, the year in which Los Pericos moved to their current home of the RCDE Stadium. The Estadi Olímpic has also been the venue for nine Copa del Rey finals over the years, most recently in 2004.

It is the venue where Messi made his Barça debut

The stadium is the site of one of the most significant moments in FC Barcelona history, as it was at the Estadi Olímpic that Lionel Messi made his official