Madrid will ask to play the first three days away from home

As already happened during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 campaigns, Real Madrid will request to play their first three games of the 2021-22 League away from their stadium. In this way, he would win about a month to be able to accommodate the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. so that it can receive public from the middle of September, just after the national team stoppage of said month. As happened last season, when Madrid started in San Sebastián (matchday 2) and Betis (matchday 3). The first day (against Getafe) was moved to date when the Whites played their Champions League second leg against Manchester City in August. Colosseum construction progresses apace and within the white team, the presence of the white supporters in the Madrid stadium after almost a year and a half of remodeling works is seen with good eyes. The idea that the white club has is to start out, while for the match of the second day they would speak with the team in question to alter the calendar. Being an asymmetric calendar, as it has been for a couple of campaigns (it is done to optimize the dates to adapt Classics and regional rivalry duels), there should be no problems for it.

The white team already requested it just at the beginning of the stadium modernization works in the 2019-20 campaign. Then, the whites started in Vigo on the first day and faced Villarreal on the third day at the La Cerámica stadium. The second, already with the demolition works in certain sectors of the stadium (the demolition of The Corner of the Bernabéu and the removal of the cover from the south end), the whites received Valladolid in their stadium. This was maintained as the works progressed until the suspension of the League in March due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Upon returning to the competition, in June, the club decided that this final stretch of the campaign as well as the following season (2020-21, recently ended), the whites played their matches at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium, in their Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas.

Madrid wants to copy the idea that Atlético de Madrid made in the 2017-18 championship, when it began its league career with three starts at home plus another trip, this time in the Champions League to Rome, where the giallorossi in the Olympic stadium of the eternal city. Then the rojiblancos started with three trips: Girona, Las Palmas and Valencia just when they were finishing the access works to their then new stadium, the Metropolitano. They did not play their first game at their new headquarters until mid-September, when they beat Málaga by the minimum. But not only the rojiblanco team successfully requested this measure. Other teams such as Osasuna and Granada asked at the time and for the same reasons (works / renovations in their stadiums) to start away from their respective stadiums. Another team that started with three games in a row away from their stadium is Huesca, which in the campaign of its return to the First Division (2018-19 season), started with three outings to Eibar, Bilbao and Barcelona. Real Sociedad also started the 2018-19 campaign with three starts against Villarreal, Leganés and Eibar. A curious case was that of Villarreal that, unlike these teams, requested to end the campaign away from their stadium in order to complete the renovation of their stadium.