La Liga champions Barcelona enjoyed a series of emotional goodbyes in their final match at Camp Nou before the stadium is rebuilt, thrashing Real Mallorca 3-0 on Sunday.

Captain Sergio Busquets and defender Jordi Alba also played at home for the last time, in the club’s penultimate league match of the season, and were awarded warm farewells by the sell-out crowd.

The team will not be able to play their home matches at the Camp Nou during the 2023-24. The Catalan club is renovating their stadium in time for 2026, but will only use a different ground for the 2023-24 campaign. The new ground is around a 7 km drive from the Nou Camp.

Barcelona will have to pay between Є15 million and Є20 million (£12.8 million and £17.1 million) in order to rent the stadium for the entirety of the 2023-24 season.

For that season, Barcelona will play their home games at the Estadi Olimpic Luis Companys, which is also known as the Montjuic Olympic Stadium.

The club is renovating its historic Camp Nou stadium as part of a £1.3 billion renovation project. That will involve increasing the capacity of the stadium from 99,354 seats to 105,000.

There will be significant improvements to the stadium, including a roof being added, while the ground will be renamed the Spotify Camp Nou as part of a lucrative sponsorship deal worth £237 million. 

A new dawn at Camp Nou kicks off on July 1 as Spotify's official partnership with the La Liga giants officially kicks off. Within the agreement, the Swedish music streaming platform becomes the club's title sponsor, including stadium naming rights and a significant branding presence inside the iconic arena. Additionally, the agreement also includes the Spotify logo appearing on the front of the men's and women's match and training kits from the start of 2022/23 for the next three years.

It is anticipated that Barcelona will only spend one season playing away from Camp Nou, although when they return in 2024-25 the ground will be operating at 50 percent capacity (around 49,000).

The move sees Barcelona leave the Camp Nou for the first time since the 1950s, and turns worldwide attention to one of the most historic sporting arenas in Spain, in the Montjuic area of Barcelona. The original stadium was built in 1927 and was inaugurated on 20th May 1929 by King Alfonso XIII, one day after the opening of the International Exhibition.

During the Games of the XXV Olympiad, the Estadi Olimpic was the scene of the opening and closing ceremonies. The athletics track competitions and the finish sections of the marathon and walk events also took place at the stadium. The current installation is the result of the remodeling of the old stadium designed by Pere Domenech I Roure in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exposition.

From 1997 to 2009 it was the home ground for Barcelona's local rivals Espanyol.

Interestingly, it was also the ground where Lionel Messi made his Barcelona debut against Espanyol in 2004. The stadium will be able to hold around 55,000 fans, although there are no plans for increasing the capacity of the stadium.