Five places to watch football in Barcelona that aren’t the Camp Nou

By Liam Bambridge
Updated: 8 April, 2012

ESTADI LA FEIXA LARGA – CE L’Hospitalet

3. Estadi la Feixa Larga – Take the number 1 Metro line right to the end and you will arrive at Hospital de Bellvitge, from where a short walk across the hospital car park will lead you to the home of CE L’Hospitalet. The contrast with the Camp Centenari could not be more marked – this stadium was built for the 1992 Olympics, and twenty years in it still feel brand new, if predictably a little lacking in character.

This is one for the die hard and I would thus not recommend taking the family along, as it is basically an industrial estate (although somewhat bizarrely there are baseball and rugby fields right next to it). However if they are mad enough to join you, it will cost you nothing for the rest of the season! The team are also pushing for promotion to Segunda and in an attempt to seal their play-off place, they are letting in everyone free for their last three home games. Heavy subsidies from the local government and a money-spinning Cup tie with Xavi and co earlier this year are no doubt the reason why this is possible, but it is still the first time I have ever heard of such initiative at any level in Spain.

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