The Spanish football federation has rescinded the yellow card Lionel Messi received on Sunday at Valencia.
Messi was booked after a thrown object appeared to hit him in the head while Barcelona celebrated Sergio Busquets' goal.
Referee David Fernandez Borbalan showed him a yellow card after deciding that he had wasted time. The official later wrote in his match report that the Argentina captain had "delayed his return to the field of play after the scoring of the goal with the aim of wasting time."
The yellow card was initially upheld a day earlier by La Liga's competition committee, but Barcelona asked a higher appeals committee to take another look.
Upon further review, the committee was unable to detect "deliberate time-wasting" on Messi's part but only "a normal reaction from someone who had suffered an aggression by a spectator," according to a statement on the RFEF website.