When will Morumbi reopen? With more shows, São Paulo face 80+ days away | OneFootball

São Paulo is coming off a rare stretch of three straight matches at Morumbi Stadium, two in the Copa Sudamericana and one in the Brasileirão, but now it will spend a long period away from home.

Because of the World Cup, and also more concerts, Tricolor is expected to go 82 days without playing in front of its fans.

With the last match at Morumbi having been played on Tuesday (26), in the win that secured qualification for the Copa Sudamericana round of 16, São Paulo is now only expected to return to the stadium in mid-August. But it was supposed to be sooner.

The Brasileirão, which will pause at the end of the month, is set to resume around July 22, with a clash between Tricolor and Athletico-PR hosted by the São Paulo side. The São Paulo stadium, however, will be given over to concerts by British singer Harry Styles, who is scheduled to perform on July 17, 18, 21, and 24.

The shows are also expected to affect São Paulo’s next home match, a derby against Santos, scheduled for July 29, when Morumbi should still be undergoing the necessary work to host matches again after Styles’ intense run of four concerts.

As a result, Tricolor is only expected to play at home again on the distant date of August 16, when it hosts Coritiba, hopefully with Morumbi ready for what really matters: football matches. There are also concerts by South Korean band BTS scheduled for the end of October.

This year alone, São Paulo has used Canindé, Brinco de Ouro in Campinas, as well as Cícero de Souza Marques in Bragança Paulista as its home whenever it was displaced by shows already held at its stadium.

And the pilgrimage may gain a new venue: Ibirapuera Stadium. AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR revealed that the meeting between São Paulo president Harry Massis and the state governor, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicanos), at the end of March, served for more than just a mere inspection of the progress of the construction work on the flood-control reservoir around Morumbi.

According to what AMT found, Tarcísio took the opportunity to advance an agreement with the club so that it could use Ibirapuera Stadium as an alternative for its matches whenever Morumbi is given over to concerts.

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