Palau Blaugrana (, meaning in

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and

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Palace") is an

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, belonging to

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Found ...

. The 7,585

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arena is home to the

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handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...

, roller hockey, and

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

divisions of

. Palau Blaugrana is located between

Mini Estadi Miniestadi (, meaning in English "Mini Stadium"), officially named "Miniestadi", was a football stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The 15,276-seat stadium was situated across from Camp Nou, the home stadium of FC Barcelona. The stadium ...

and the

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. There's also an awards showcase and pro-shop inside.

History

Built in 1971, the stadium originally held 5,696 spectators, but the facility was remodeled in 1994, to fit the current capacity of 7,585. During the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

, the arena hosted several events, including roller hockey,

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

and

judo is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo") ...

. The arena's main court area was renovated in 2016.

Retired numbers

Several basketball, handball, roller hockey and futsal players have had their jerseys retired:
*4 Andrés Jiménez, 7

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, 11 Juan Carlos Navarro, 12 Roberto Dueñas and 15 Epi for Basketball *2 Òscar Grau, 4 Xavier O'Callaghan, 5 Enric Masip, 7 Iñaki Urdangarin, 14 Joan Sagalés and 16

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for Handball *21 Alberto Borregán for Roller Hockey *28

Paco Sedano Francisco Sedano Antolín (born 2 December 1979), commonly known as Paco Sedano, is a Spanish retired futsal player who last played for Barcelona as a goalkeeper.

for Futsal

Nou Palau Blaugrana

Under

Sandro Rosell Alexandre "Sandro" Rosell Feliu (; born 6 March 1964) is a Spanish businessman. He earned an MBA degree from ESADE. Rosell ran as senior adviser of Joan Laporta during the 2003 FC Barcelona elections and was the vice-president of sports until J ...

's presidency,

announced that by 2013, it planned to build a new Palau Blaugrana for its

and

teams, with a capacity of 12,000 seats. Also included in the plan, was a smaller campus with a capacity of 3,000 seats, plus special conditionsfor hotel partners (operated by a specialist company located on the corner of Aristides Maillol with John XXIII), new parking spaces and an auditorium, with a 2,000 capacity, for the foundation, including the offices of the club. These plans, however, were later dropped in favour of the Espai Barça project. Under the Espai Barça project, the current Palau Blaugrana will be demolished, and a new arena is expected to be built on the site previously occupied by the

, which was demolished to make way for the new arena. Work is expected to start by the 2017–18 basketball season. The

Nou Palau Blaugrana The Nou Palau Blaugrana will be a multi-sports indoor arena, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The arena will serve as the new home arena for the basketball (FC Barcelona Bàsquet), handball (FC Barcelona Handbol) and Futsal (FC Barce ...

will have a capacity of about 12,500 people with an adjacent, smaller court that will seat approximately 2,000. Additionally, the New Palau will have 24 VIP boxes and 4 sky bars with court views.

References

External links

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at fcbarcelona.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Palau Blaugrana FC Barcelona FC Barcelona Bàsquet FC Barcelona Handbol FC Barcelona Hoquei FC Barcelona Futsal Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic judo venues Olympic taekwondo venues Sports venues in Barcelona Handball venues in Spain Indoor arenas in Catalonia Indoor arenas in Spain Basketball venues in Spain Buildings and structures completed in 1971 Boxing venues in Spain

History

Retired numbers

Nou Palau Blaugrana

See also

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