{"id":163280,"date":"2025-11-20T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/villarreal-barca-match-rules-out-friendly-before-christmas_315292_102-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:04:59","slug":"villarreal-barca-match-rules-out-friendly-before-christmas_315292_102-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/villarreal-barca-match-rules-out-friendly-before-christmas_315292_102.html","title":{"rendered":"Bar\u00e7a runs out of time for a friendly before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bar\u00e7a will finally not play a friendly before Christmas. The club had offers to travel to Peru or Morocco, but LaLiga scheduled the J17 match against Villarreal for Sunday, December 21<\/h2>\n<p><a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/laliga\/villarreal-barcelona-schedule-and-tv-laliga-2025-26-md17_315284_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/laliga\/horario-tv-villarreal-barcelona-laliga-2025-26-j17_315284_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/laliga\/villarreal-barcelona-schedule-and-tv-laliga-2025-26-md17_315284_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Horario y TV del Villarreal - Barcelona: LaLiga 2025\/26 J17\">LaLiga confirmed the date and time for the Villarreal-FC Barcelona match on matchday 17<\/a>, which also ruled out the possibility of playing a friendly before Christmas. The clash at the Estadio de la Cer\u00e1mica will be played <strong>on Sunday, December 21st at 4:15 PM<\/strong>, making it the last official match of 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Bar\u00e7a board had received offers to play in <a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/barcelona-could-close-out-2025-with-friendly-in-peru_315144_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/fc-barcelona\/barcelona-podria-cerrar-2025-con-amistoso-peru_315144_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/barcelona-could-close-out-2025-with-friendly-in-peru_315144_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"El Barcelona podr\u00eda cerrar 2025 \u00a1con un amistoso en Per\u00fa!\">Peru<\/a> or <a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/barca-does-not-rule-out-playing-in-morocco-before-christmas_315194_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/fc-barcelona\/barca-podria-cambiar-peru-por-marruecos-amistoso-diciembre_315194_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/barca-does-not-rule-out-playing-in-morocco-before-christmas_315194_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"El Bar\u00e7a podr\u00eda cambiar a Per\u00fa por Marruecos para el amistoso de diciembre\">Morocco<\/a>, probably on December 22nd. However, although the friendly could bring in around 5 million euros for the Catalan club, there is no time to plan an extra match before the year-end break. The club will return to work on January 2nd to plan for the visit to <strong>Espanyol <\/strong>on the first weekend of 2026<\/p>\n<h2>The LaLiga-AFE Collective Agreement Prevents Playing on December 23<\/h2>\n<p>In this regard, the Collective Bargaining Agreement between LaLiga and the Spanish Footballers&#8217; Association (AFE), endorsed by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), establishes that all players in clubs in Spain must have <strong>at least 10 days off during the Christmas break<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the holiday period begins <strong>on Tuesday, December 23rd at midnight<\/strong>. In other words, if Bar\u00e7a had planned a friendly for that day, the squad would have had to return to Catalonia on the same Monday to start their holidays the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The club, however, will keep the door open to playing a friendly in Peru or Morocco in 2026, perhaps <strong>before the squad goes on vacation in June<\/strong>. Before then, the calendar offers few windows to plan a trip with all the stars available.<\/p>\n<h2>Bar\u00e7a will close 2025 with the match that was supposed to be played in Miami<\/h2>\n<p>Thus, Bar\u00e7a will close the year 2025 with a visit to Villarreal, in <a acata=\"\" data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/laliga\/fc-barcelona-accepts-and-regrets-cancellation-of-laliga-match-in-miami_315089_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/laliga\/fc-barcelona-acata-lamenta-cancelacion-partido-liga-miami_315089_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/laliga\/fc-barcelona-accepts-and-regrets-cancellation-of-laliga-match-in-miami_315089_102.html\" lamenta=\"\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"El Bar\u00e7a \" y=\"\">the match that was initially going to be played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami<\/a>. Although UEFA and FIFA gave the green light to the initiative, pressure from stakeholders such as the AFE and Real Madrid led the event promoter to cancel it last month, prior to the start of ticket sales<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bar\u00e7a could earn around 6 million euros <\/strong>for playing in the United States, an income that could cover the friendly before Christmas. Now, the board will have to look for other ways to compensate for this lost &#8216;lever&#8217;. <a data-external=\"0\" data-intl-links-en=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/were-going-home-this-is-how-pre-match-party-for-barca-athletic-will-be_315291_102.html\" data-intl-links-es=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/fc-barcelona\/tornem-casa-todos-detalles-fiesta-previa-barca-athletic-camp-nou_315291_102.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/fc-barcelona\/fc-barcelona\/were-going-home-this-is-how-pre-match-party-for-barca-athletic-will-be_315291_102.html\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\" title=\"TORNEM A CASA: todos los detalles de la fiesta previa al Bar\u00e7a-Athletic en Camp Nou\">The return to Spotify Camp Nou<\/a>, however, represents a key factor for the recovery of Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bar\u00e7a will finally not play a friendly before Christmas. The club had offers to travel to Peru or Morocco, but LaLiga scheduled the J17 match against Villarreal for Sunday, December 21 LaLiga confirmed the date and time for the Villarreal-FC Barcelona match on matchday 17, which also ruled out the possibility of playing a friendly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":163281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_nextfly_llmd_date_locked":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-163280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fc-barcelona","tag-fc-barcelona-vs-villarreal-fc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Villarreal-Bar\u00e7a match rules out friendly before Christmas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bar\u00e7a will not play a friendly before Christmas after all. 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