New episode of the case of the matches on Monday and Friday. LaLiga and the RFEF attended on the morning of this Friday, October 2, to their appointment with the Commercial Court number 2 of Madrid, place where a tense preview has been held prior to the resolution of the conflict of the match schedules on Friday and Monday that both entities have maintained since 2019.
As soon as the date started, the part of The RFEF has requested the suspension of the hearing to return on the 6th, which was the initial date on which both parties were summoned. However, after the threat, Judge Sánchez Magro has decided that this hearing should continue. Of course, without witnesses. Roures (Mediapro) and Luis Gil (LaLiga) were among those who were going to give their testimony.
The LaLiga part has remained firm in its request for precautionary measures and has listed the new events that have occurred since last August. Meanwhile, the RFEF has maintained a firmer tone and has called LaLiga's attitude of setting games on Friday and Monday in these first days of First and Second division as “structural bad faith”.
In addition, the bosses have defended that it is “essential” to know in advance if they can count on Fridays and Mondays to schedule their matches, especially in the current context, within a global pandemic that requires testing and other series of specific measures. He has also stated that his schedules do not pose any harm to RFEF competitions.
The tension has continued with a new intervention by the Federation, which has indicated that in other European leagues there are several matches at the same time and that LaLiga occupies all the 'windows' supposes a damage for more than a million of federative cards. “Women's football begins this day 4 and there is no way to see it on television in a‘ free ‘window,‘ he said. After the interventions of both, Sánchez Magro has finished the hearing.
Background on the hours of this campaign
On the first day of this season, LaLiga set meetings on Friday and Monday, thus missing the decision made by the head of the Commercial Court number 2 of Madrid, which overturned the precautionary measures requested by the entity chaired by Javier Tebas to be able to play in those days. That was the first time he had to modify the announced schedules, an action that he also had to repeat with Matchday 3, after estimating the decision of the competition judge on the matter foreseeable and deciding to change the dates to “avoid a situation of confusion and insecurity that threatens the integrity of the competition.” Already on matchday 5, LaLiga did not include Friday or Monday matches in its schedules.
The final resolution of the well-known conflict of the schedules is still to come. However, it must be remembered that this Court already dismissed the League's lawsuit against the RFEF last May, declaring that the dispute between matches on Friday and Monday requires the approval of the Federation.