Covid-19: FC Barcelona gives Camp Nou naming rights to Barça Foundation to finance research projects

FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander) has transferred the naming rights of the Camp Nou to the Barça Foundation for the 2020-21 season, who will then seek a stadium naming partner in order "to raise money to invest in research projects being carried out in Catalonia and the rest of the world involved in the fight against the effects of Covid-19," announced the club on 21/04/2020.

"In the next few weeks, the Barça Foundation, through the club's commercial area, will begin the process of finding a sponsor who wishes to acquire the title rights to Camp Nou for a season. Barça are ceding those rights for a name to be put to Camp Nou for the very first time," said the club.

"The title rights are a commercial option that has never been exploited before and had been reserved for the Espai Barça, the transformative project for the club's facilities that included the redevelopment of Camp Nou, the building of a new Palau Blaugrana, a Barça Campus and the Estadi Johan Cruyff, which is now being used at the Ciutat Esportiva. This ceding of the rights for a season is compatible with the future…