This started off our week with the "camp" idea, for the definition of a camp is an area of ground on which temporary accommodation has been erected.
I can find no occasion on which a football stadium was pressed into service, and though many accounts speak of the 1924 Scout Jamboree at Wembley being on the field, it was not, it was housed nearby on land known as The Paddocks, about seven minutes walk away.
The first time that Camp Nou, showing here, appeared on a card was in 1982, sticker thirteen of Panini`s "World Cup Stickers". However you would be excused for missing it, as it is actually called "Barcelona - Estadio Nou Camp". These three words are all correct, though, as in Catalan "Estadio" means stadium, "Nou" is new, and "Camp" means field, or ground.
However, by the time this card appeared, it was over twenty years old, for it was opened on the twenty-fourth of September 1957. It replaced the former home of Barcelona F.C., the Camp de Les Corts, which had opened on the twentieth of May, 1922. That too replaced a prior stadium, , which had opened on the fourteenth of March, 1909. Each time these stadiums had expanded until there was no more room for them to grow - the Camp de la Industria being built for fifteen hundred spectators and growing to six thousand, the Camp de Les Corts starting with a capacity for twenty-thousand but reaching sixty thousand, and Estadio Nou coping with a hundred and twenty thousand during the 1986 European Cup Quarter Finals, when Barcelona met Juventus.
Strangely, the Camp de la Industria came along ten years after a Swiss man, Hans Gamper, placed an advertisement in a bi-weekly sports magazine asking whether any one would be interested in starting a football team. That occurred on the twenty-second of October, 1899, and lots of people must have agreed as he had a meeting almost a month later in order to set out the constitution of the new club.
After the 2022 season, work on renovating, updating, and enlarging began. This is still ongoing, and Barcelona is playing their home games at the Olympic Stadium, which was built in 1927 for the 1929 Exposicion Internationale Barcelona, with an eye on using it for the 1936 Olympics. However they lost their bid to host the Olympics, over the growing unrest which would later be known as the Spanish Civil War - which makes it rather odd that the 1936 Olympics were awarded, instead, to Berlin.
The text on our card is both light and small, but it reads : "Camp Nou / 28th May 2023 / Barca marked their final game at Camp Nou ahead of redevelopment with a 3-0 victory over Mallorca. After the game, the stadium`s greatest moments played out on the big screen while fireworks exploded overhead, reminding the fans that Camp Nou`s exciting future is inseparable from its proud past. "
This set, of just three cards, is known as "Forever Home" - and it is one of many items that are allied to the base set of fifty cards called "Topps FC Barcelona 125th Anniversary" - including autographs, patches, relics, etc. You can read all about them at The Trading card Database/FCB.