Official: Barcelona will play Osasuna on March 27 as enchantment rejected

FC Barcelona have had their enchantment to maneuver the rescheduled La Liga match towards CA Osasuna from March 27 to a special date get rejected.

The fixture was initially scheduled to be performed on March 8 however needed to be suspended because of the unlucky passing of Barcelona’s first-team physician, Carles Minarro, hours earlier than kickoff at Montjuic.

Earlier this week, the RFEF and La Liga confirmed that the match would now be performed on March 27 – a date that was not agreeable to both membership, because of which each launched an enchantment in search of a special date.

Enchantment knocked again

Nevertheless, regardless of efforts from each Barcelona and Osasuna to seek out an alternate date, the disciplinary choose of the RFEF has upheld the choice to play the match on Thursday, March 27.

Barcelona and Osasuna had recommended rescheduling the match for Might 21, between the penultimate and remaining rounds of La Liga. These final two matchdays are performed concurrently to make sure honest competitors within the title race.

The golf equipment cited a precedent from the 2016/17 season when a postponed Celta Vigo vs Actual Madrid fixture was performed between the ultimate two rounds.

Nevertheless, the RFEF dominated towards the request, pointing to its rules, which state that worldwide call-ups should not grounds for suspending a match.

🔴 Resolución del Comité Nacional de Segunda Instancia.

▫️ @FCBarcelona_es – @Osasuna
▫️ 27ª jornada de Primera División (@LaLiga)

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— RFEF (@rfef) March 20, 2025

The Federation referenced an analogous case from 21 November, when Actual Sociedad needed to play a rescheduled Copa del Rey match towards Jove Español regardless of lacking a number of key gamers because of the worldwide break.

Considerations for Barcelona

Barcelona had argued that key gamers can be unavailable resulting from worldwide obligation. Ronald Araujo and Raphinha will solely simply be getting back from their respective matches with Uruguay (vs Bolivia on Tuesday at 21:00 (CET)) and Brazil (vs Argentina on Wednesday at 01:00 (CET)).

Though they are going to be in Barcelona by matchday, they won’t have had adequate restoration time.

Moreover, Fermin Lopez, Pablo Torre, and Gerard Martin might be with Spain’s U21 facet, who play Germany on Tuesday at 20:30 (CET), whereas Hector Fort performs for Spain’s U19 crew in Italy on the identical day at 15:00 (CET).

With solely two days between their worldwide matches and the Osasuna fixture, journey and fatigue improve the danger of accidents at a vital stage of the season.

Barça are already coping with a number of absences, together with Inigo Martinez, Marc Casado, Marc Bernal, Ter Stegen, and Andreas Christensen.