Spanish football will finally cross the Atlantic after the Royal Spanish Football Federation has approved a request for Barcelona and Villarreal to face Laliga in Miami, an initiative that took almost a decade to realize.
The RFEF board gave Green Light on Monday (11) so that the match of the 17th round will be played on December 20, the first step for the competition to have an official match abroad for the first time in its history.
The proposal now goes to the regulator of European football, before demanding the final approval of – the last obstacle in the American dream of.
“At its meeting of August 11, 2025, RFEF’s board of directors received a request from Villarreal CF and FC Barcelona to play its match at the 17th Round of the First Division in the United States,” RFEF said in a statement.
“… the Royal Spanish Football Federation will submit the request to UEFA to start FIFA’s subsequent authorization process for the match to be played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on December 20, 2025 …”
It pursues your transatlantic view for almost a decade, emulating the strategy employed by and to settle in other markets.
The first attempt at Thebes took place in the 2018-19 season, with a proposal for a game between Girona and Barça in the US, which never came to fruition.
A duel between Villarreal and Atletico Madrid for the 2019-20 season also failed, with the case going to court after RFEF refused authorization.
The court ruled in favor of the Spanish Federation, then under the command of, celebrating Spain’s victory in the women’s World Cup.
There was another almost failure last season, with a match between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid almost happening, but Laliga backed up at the last minute to better structure the project.
Now, with the exceeded regulatory barriers and the internal conflicts resolved, the Villarreal X Barça confrontation seems to finally provide the long -awaited American Spanish football adventure.
