The soccer club says an appeals court has thrown out a local resident organization's noise pollution complaint.

General view outside the stadium prior to the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off Second Leg match between Real Madrid C.F. and SL Benfica at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on February 25, 2026 in Madrid, Spain. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

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Real Madrid says it has won the dismissal of a criminal investigation into alleged noise pollution from concerts at Bernabéu Stadium, which has hosted major shows from artists like Taylor Swift and Karol G .

On Wednesday (May 13), the soccer club announced that the Provincial Court of Madrid had issued a ruling “definitively ending the criminal process” that began in 2024 with a legal complaint from local residents in the city’s affluent Chamartín neighborhood.

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“The aforementioned judicial resolution clearly and categorically concludes that neither José Ángel Sánchez Periáñez , the club’s general director and…