Real Madrid is boycotting the Spanish Football Federation, stating, "We will not take part in a rigged competition."

Real Madrid has frozen all institutional contact with the Spanish Football Federation, accusing the governing body of maintaining an “unfair and rigged refereeing system”.

According to Spanish newspaper AS, General Manager José Ángel Sánchez initially participated in meetings to launch the new refereeing system but pulled out at the last minute, calling the Federation president to announce that Real Madrid would not sign the agreement—a clear sign of the deepening rift.

The final straw, according to club sources, was the La Liga match against Girona, where referee Albertola Rojas’s decisions were deemed biased: two similar incidents involving Kylian Mbappé were handled differently, despite clear television evidence.

Read also: What is the connection between the Moroccan and Grazi? ... The Bernabéu cries out: Who stole Real Madrid’s spirit?

In Madrid, they describe the situation as “a competition rigged by the referees” and insist that every match reinforces their belief that they must stay apart from the Federation until the refereeing system is completely reformed.

A source close to the club’s hierarchy states: “We are not seeking privileges, but justice. What is happening is unjustifiable and cannot be tolerated.”

That tension was plain to see during the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich, when Spanish football chief Rafael Luzán sat at the Santiago Bernabéu alongside UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin. but he was conspicuously seated in the third row of the stand—a telling sign of the deep freeze in their relationship.

While the club acknowledges that officiating is not the only reason for its domestic struggles, it believes it is the single biggest cause of dropped points and insists that stance will not change until the Spanish refereeing system is radically overhauled to restore trust.

Click here to read article