FC Barcelona have escalated its growing frustration with Spanish officiating by sending a formal letter of complaint to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), reports Diario SPORT.
Addressed to the presidency and the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), the document expresses deep concern over a perceived lack of unified criteria that the club believes has affected them very negatively across both the men’s and women’s teams.
The club’s protest outlines five specific points where they believe refereeing standards have failed to maintain consistency.
What are the five grievances?
Barça cite a “double yardstick” by comparing Frenkie de Jong’s red card in the Super Cup to a challenge by Giuliano Simeone on Alejandro Balde, which received no similar punishment.
Regarding handballs, the club find it especially worrying that an unpunished action by Aurelien Tchouameni in a previous Clasico stands in stark contrast to a penalty recently awarded against Barça for a similar situation, despite both being judged by the same official.
Furthermore, the complaint slams an accumulation of flagrant errors that always seem to result in detriment to Barcelona, arguing that this situation directly compromises the integrity of the competition.
The club also questions the use of technology, noting that “nanometric decisions” are increasingly made against them, such as disallowed goals for Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal.
They specifically highlighted the lack of transparency regarding the seven-minute VAR review of Pau Cubarsí’s disallowed goal against Atletico Madrid.
Finally, Barça noted a disparity in VAR recalls, pointing out that while Eric Garcia was sent for review during a red card incident, similar decisive fouls on Balde and Yamal were ignored.
The club clarified that while it does not question the professionalism of the referees, it demands an urgent review of the applied criteria to ensure equal treatment and preserve the prestige of RFEF competitions.
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