FC Barcelona to expand stadium capacity in January- Friexa

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FC Barcelona of Spain may be considering to expand their Nou Camp stadium or move to a new location in January.

This decision is due to the club's quest of increasing the stadium capacity Europe largest stadium from 99,354 to 105,000, and build a roof to cover the ground.

According to bbcsport, the Nou Camp board of directors will vote on the plan early in the new year.

Board spokesman Toni Freixa said: "We've made advances, we have all the information and we're in a position to make a decision."

Nou Camp has been the home stadium of Catalans since 1957, and has hosted two European Cup finals - in 1989 and 1999 - the World Cup in 1982 and the Olympic football tournament in 1992.

Friexa said that the options on ground are; to construct a new stadium on a landed property currently belonging to the University of Barcelona, while the other project involved a "profound re-modelling" of the existing stadium.

He added: "Both would have a capacity of 105,000 spectators, the stadium would be covered.

"It needs to be viable from a technical perspective, urbanist and economic. We would never submit a project that would endanger the sustainability of the club."