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The 2024–25 Copa del Rey (branded as the Copa del Rey MAPFRE for sponsorship reasons), [1] is the 123rd staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The winners are assured a place in the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League league phase .
The 2024 Copa del Rey final was a football match to decide the winners of the 2023–24 Copa del Rey, the 122nd edition of Spain's primary football cup (including two seasons where two rival editions were played).
The final was held at Estadio de La Cartuja in Seville on 6 April 2024, between Athletic Bilbao and Mallorca. [1] Following a 1–1 draw, Athletic Bilbao won the match 4–2 on penalties, securing a 25th Copa del Rey title and their first since 1984. As across Spain, match times up to 28 October 2023 and from 27 March 2024 were CEST .
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, [a] commonly known as Copa del Rey, [b] La Copa [c] or (in English) the Spanish Cup [1] or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República [d] (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo [e] (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish football, organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation.
Athletic Bilbao reached the Copa del Rey final for the third time in the last five years, but Thursday’s victory over Atlético Madrid was marred by chaotic scenes ahead of the match.
Messi and Busquets, along with Barcelona teammate Gerard Piqué and Agustín Gaínza of Athletic Bilbao, share the most Copa del Rey trophies won by a player, with 7. Telmo Zarra holds records for consecutive finals scored in (finding the net on each occasion between 1942 and 1945) and the most goals scored in a final (four, in 1950). [10]
The match was 'El Clásico' between the 2022–23 Copa del Rey winners and 2022–23 La Liga runners-up Real Madrid, and the 2022–23 La Liga winners Barcelona, the ninth time both clubs played each other in the competition's decisive tie (until 2020 its format was simply a two-legged match; the teams also faced each other in a rematch of last ...
Real Betis were the defending champions, having beaten Valencia on penalties in the previous edition's final, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Osasuna. Osasuna would go on to reach the 2023 final, where they lost 2–1 to Real Madrid. For Madrid, this was their twentieth Copa del Rey title, and first since 2014. [1]