The Bernabéu stadium will soon return to hosting concerts. A few days ago Real Madrid won the legal battle that saw it involved in a dispute with the residents of the neighbourhood in which the stadium stands, exasperated by the noise produced during the live shows. The club is said to be already getting active and would like to start again next January with a concert by Andrea Bocelli. It would be a fine way to start again after a long stop: it has been since 2024, in fact, that the – renovated, rebuilt – Real facility has no longer hosted a live musical show. Since then, as said, Florentino Pérez’s club has had to face a long battle in court, which led to the cancellation of the events already on the calendar. Some of these events, as if that were not enough, were rescheduled at the Métropolitano stadium: the home of Atlético Madrid.
Now Real and the general director José Ángel Sánchez have been acquitted of any criminal responsibility by the Provincial Court of Madrid and, according to sources close to the club, Florentino Perez would like to restart the concert season at the Bernabeu as early as next January. In the meantime, however, the association of the residents of the neighbourhood in which the Bernabéu stands has already communicated that it will appeal to the Supreme Court. Florentino Perez, for his part, has instead said that he is already at work to fix the soundproofing and to put the last details in order, so as to also meet the needs of the residents of the area and to smooth out every divergence.
The possibility of returning to host concerts at the Bernabéu represents great news for Real and for Perez, above all from an economic point of view: the renovation of the stadium, which cost over 1.2 billion euros, was the flagship of his second tenure, and it transformed a football stadium into an industry that walks on its own, into a space for events of all kinds that remains open – and that therefore brings in money for – 365 days a year.
According to sources close to the management, Madrid’s plan is to make the stadium available for a maximum of 14 concerts a year. Real, to also meet the needs of the residents of the area, could decide to make changes to the types of events to hold at the Bernabéu: in particular, a possible compromise would be to fill the calendar with less aggressive ones from the sound point of view. Andrea Bocelli responds precisely to this model and it is for that reason that Florentino Perez is said to be pushing in this direction. A few more months, then, and live music will return to the Bernabéu stadium: after an NFL match, the training sessions of the best tennis players in the world and a Christmas-themed park, by now, only that was missing.