Barcelona were due to face Real Madrid at Spotify Camp Nou on Sunday 25 October in the tenth round of the Spanish league. After unrest in central Barcelona on Saturday, the match was set to be played amid heightened security scrutiny, with no official announcement of a postponement or cancellation in the information available when the reports were prepared.
Match status and risk classification
Spanish authorities had already classified Barcelona v Real Madrid as a high-risk match before the unrest broke out. Spain's state commission against violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in sport classified the clash between Barcelona and Real Madrid as a high-risk match on 14 October.
What happened in central Barcelona
Riots gripped central Barcelona on Saturday. Reuters reported that police arrested around 100 people, including 27 minors. Núria Parlon said fires broke out at more than 30 locations and 14 commercial premises were vandalised or looted.
Official position on the fixture
No official announcement had been made regarding the postponement or cancellation of the Clásico over the events in the city centre, according to the information available when the report was prepared.
The 2019 precedent
Barcelona v Real Madrid at Camp Nou was postponed in October 2019 after protests and unrest in Catalonia. La Liga said in an official statement in 2019 that it had moved to stop the match going ahead on its original date because of the security situation in the region and because of intelligence it had received about the possibility of non-peaceful groups exploiting the fixture. Both clubs rejected La Liga's proposal to swap the two venues in 2019, and the Spanish Football Federation then set the game for 18 December 2019.