Some 70,000 people were forced to evacuate Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium minutes before the end of a league match on Sunday after a bomb threat was received.
The decision to abandon the game against Real Sociedad three minutes from time and evacuate the crowd was taken after Basque newspaper Garasaid it received a warning from a caller claiming to represent Basque separatist group ETA that there was a bomb in the ground.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez
The caller said the bomb would explode at 9 p.m. but the warning proved false. Police with sniffer dogs searched the stadium and found no bomb.
"The police have said they have completed their search and have not found anything," Real Madrid president Florentino Perez told reporters. "The best thing we can all do now is to put this nightmare behind us."
Real Madrid's star-studded team, including Brazil's Ronaldo and England's David Beckham, suddenly trooped off the pitch with the score tied at 1-1 against Real Sociedad, a team from San Sebastian in the Basque country.
The Spanish football federation will meet today to decide whether to let the result stand or play the remaining minutes of the game later.