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Can Dani Olmo play for Barcelona in El Clásico against Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup?

Olmo and Pau Victor missed the semifinal win over Athletic Club due to registration issues with LaLiga. How is the Supercopa de España affected?

Olmo and Pau Victor missed the semifinal win over Athletic Club due to registration issues with LaLiga. How is the Supercopa de España affected?
GORKA LEIZADiarioAS

Barcelona will face El Clásico rivals Real Madrid in a second successive Spanish Super Cup final and have had their roster for the game in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia bolstered by the availability of key attacker Dani Olmo.

The peculiar case of Dani Olmo’s registration

Olmo has been the most recent victim of the Catalans’ financial mismanagement. The $64 million summer signing from RB Leipzig was, briefly, not registered with LaLiga as of January 1, 2025 after Barça failed to prove they were compliant with the Spanish league’s financial fair play (FFP) rules by December 31.

However, the 26-year-old, along with fellow forward Pau Victor, who has found himself in the same position, has been given the green light to play for the club after the Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), Spain’s Supreme Sports Council, ruled against the decision from LaLiga, which also affected the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), to not allow them to be re-registered.

The duo are now allowed to play until the end of the season, although Barcelona will have to go through the whole registration process again for 2025/26.

The RFEF, which runs the Spanish Super Cup as well as the Copa del Rey, had previously stated it “cannot process any licence without prior approval from LaLiga.”

Olmo’s status for the Spanish Super Cup against Real MAdrid

As a result, Olmo wasn’t available to play in the Copa del Rey win away to Barbastro on January 4, or the Spanish Super Cup semifinal victory over Athletic Club on January 8.

On that same day, however, news came through that Barça’s appeal to the CSD had been successful, meaning Olmo, and Victor, will be able to play against Real Madrid at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah on Sunday (January 12).

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