2014–15 Copa del Rey

Copa del Rey
Country Spain
Teams 83
Champions Barcelona (27th title)
Runners-up Athletic Bilbao
Matches played 109
Goals scored 297 (2.72 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) Iago Aspas
Neymar
(7 goals each)

The 2014–15 Copa del Rey was the 113th staging of the Copa del Rey. The winners assure a place for the group stage of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.

Real Madrid were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Atlético Madrid 2–4 on aggregate in the round of 16.

Barcelona won the tournament by defeating Athletic Bilbao in the final, 3–1, thus achieving their record 27th title.

Schedule and format

The fixtures' schedule was released by the RFEF and the LFP on 30 May 2014 and the format is identical to the previous season.[1]

Round Draw date Date Fixtures Clubs Format details
First round 31 July 2014[2] 3 September 2014 18 83 → 65 New entries: Clubs participating in Tercera and Segunda División B will gain entry.
Byes: Seven teams from Segunda División B will receive a bye.
Opponents seeding: Teams will face each other according to proximity criteria.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Copa Federación qualification: losers will qualify for 2014–15 Copa Federación, National phase.
Second round 10 September 2014 22 65 → 43 New entries: Clubs participating in Segunda División will gain entry.
Byes: One team from the first round will receive a bye.
Opponents seeding: Segunda División teams will face each other.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Third round 22 September 2014[3] 15 October 2014 11 43 → 32 Byes: One team from Segunda División B or Tercera División, which previously didn't receive a bye, will receive one.
Opponents seeding: Segunda División teams will face each other.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Round of 32 17 October 2014 29 October 2014 (see notes)
3 December 2014
16 32 → 16 New entries: Clubs participating in La Liga will gain entry.
Opponents seeding: The seven teams from La Liga which were qualified for 2013–14 UEFA competitions, will face against remaining seven teams from Segunda División B and Tercera División.
The five remaining Segunda División teams will face against La Liga teams.
The eight remaining La Liga teams will face each other.
Local team seeding: First leg at home of team in lower division.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
3 December 2014 (see notes)
17 December 2014
Round of 16 7 January 2015 8 16 → 8 Opponents seeding: Draw of lots.
Local team seeding: First leg at home of team in lower division.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
14 January 2015
Quarter-finals 21 January 2015 4 8 → 4 Opponents seeding: Draw of lots.
Local team seeding: Luck of the draw.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
28 January 2015
Semifinals 11 February 2015 2 4 → 2
4 March 2015
Final 30 May 2015 1 2 → 1 Single match, stadium TBD by RFEF.
UEFA Europa League qualification: winner will qualify for 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, group stage.
Notes

Qualified teams

The following teams competed in the Copa del Rey 2014–15.

20 teams of 2014–15 La Liga:

20 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División (Barcelona B is excluded for being reserve team and Racing de Santander is sanctioned):

36 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División B: the top five teams of each of the 4 groups (excluding reserve teams), the five with the highest number of points out of the remaining non-reserve teams (*), the three teams relegated from 2013–14 Segunda División, and the 12 teams winners of a group of 2013–14 Tercera División (or at least the ones with the highest number of points within their group since reserve teams are excluded) that were promoted to Segunda División B.

7 teams of 2014–15 Tercera División. Teams that qualified are 6 of 18 champions that were not promoted to Segunda División B (or at least the ones with the highest number of points within their group since reserve teams are excluded):

First round

The draw for First and Second round was held on 31 July 2014 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol, RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas, Madrid.[2] In this round 43 Segunda División B and Tercera División teams gained entry. In the draw, firstly seven teams from the 2014–15 Segunda División B (L'Hospitalet, Guadalajara, Fuenlabrada, Zamora, Lleida Esportiu, Mirandés and Guijuelo) received a bye and then remaining teams from 2014–15 Segunda División B and teams from 2014–15 Tercera División faced according to proximity criteria by next groups:[5]

Pot 1
Group 1
Pot 2
Group 2
Pot 3
Group 3
Pot 4
Group 4
Segunda División B:
Atlético Astorga
Avilés
Guijuelo
Lealtad
Marino Luanco
Oviedo
Mirandés
Racing de Ferrol
Somozas
Zamora

Tercera División:
Gimnástica Torrelavega
Varea
Segunda División B:
Amorebieta
Barakaldo
Fuenlabrada
Guadalajara
Huesca
Leioa
Sestao River
Toledo
Trival Valderas

Tercera División:
Atlético Granadilla
Izarra
Puertollano
Teruel
Segunda División B:
Alcoyano
Atlético Baleares
Cornellà
Eldense
Gimnàstic Tarragona
Hércules
L'Hospitalet
Lleida

Tercera División:
Santa Eulàlia
Segunda División B:
Balompédica Linense
Cádiz
Cartagena
Jaén
La Hoya Lorca
Marbella
San Roque de Lepe
UCAM Murcia
Villanovense

Matches

Second round

The draw was held together with the First round draw on 31 July 2014 in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In the draw, the team from 2014–15 Segunda División B or 2014–15 Tercera División, winner from First round match Oviedo v Amorebieta, received a bye.[5] Teams from 2014–15 Segunda División gained entry in this round and faced each other. Winners of First round, together with the seven teams which received a bye, faced each other too.

Third round

The draw was held on 22 September 2013 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol.[6] In the draw, as Mirandés was relocated to the pot with the teams of 2014–15 Segunda División, one team from this league received a bye. Teams from Segunda División faced each other and teams from 2014–15 Segunda División B and 2014–15 Tercera División faced each other.

Pot 1
Segunda División
Pot 2
Segunda División B
and Tercera División
Segunda División:
Alavés
Albacete
Betis
Girona
Las Palmas
Lugo
Mirandés
Numancia
Recreativo
Sabadell *
Valladolid
Segunda División B:
Alcoyano
Barakaldo
Cádiz
Cornellà
Huesca
Izarra
L'Hospitalet
Leioa
Linense
Lleida Esportiu
Oviedo
UCAM Murcia

Matches

Final phase

The draw for the Round of 32 was held on October 17, 2014, in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In this round, all La Liga teams gained entry in the competition.

Round of 32 pairings were as follows: the six remaining teams participating in Segunda División B and Tercera División faced the La Liga teams which qualified for European competitions, this was: four teams from Pot 1 (Segunda B and Tercera) were drawn against four teams from pot 2a (Champions) and the two remaining teams in pot 1 were drawn in the same way with the pot 2b teams (Europa League). The remaining team in pot 2b was drawn with a Segunda División team (Pot 3). The five remaining teams in this pot were drawn against five teams of the thirteen remaining teams of La Liga (Pot 4). The remaining eight teams of La Liga faced each other. Matches involving teams with different league tiers were played at home on the first leg the team in lower tier. This rule also applied in the Round of 16, but not for Quarter-finals and Semi-finals, in which order of the two legs was decided by the draw.

Pot 1
Segunda División B
Pot 2a
Champions League
Pot 2b
Europa League
Pot 3
Segunda División
Pot 4
Rest of Primera División
Segunda División B:
L'Hospitalet
Alcoyano
Oviedo
Huesca
Cornellà
Cádiz
Barcelona
Real Madrid (TH)
Atlético Madrid
Athletic Bilbao
Real Sociedad
Villarreal
Sevilla
Alavés
Albacete
Betis
Las Palmas
Sabadell
Valladolid
Almería
Celta Vigo
Córdoba
Deportivo La Coruña
Eibar
Elche
Espanyol
Getafe
Granada
Levante
Málaga
Rayo Vallecano
Valencia

Bracket

Round of 32
2/3/4/5 December 2014
16/17/18 December 2014
  Round of 16
7 January 2015
14 January 2015
  Quarter-finals
21 January 2015
28 January 2015
  Semi-finals
11 February 2015
4 March 2015
  Final
30 May 2015
 Deportivo La Coruña 1 1 2  
 Málaga 1 4 5      Málaga 2 2 4  
 Albacete 1 0 1    Levante 0 3 3  
 Levante (a) 1 0 1        Málaga 0 0 0  
 Las Palmas 2 1 3        Athletic Bilbao 0 1 1  
 Celta Vigo 1 3 4      Celta Vigo 2 2 4
 Alcoyano 1 0 1    Athletic Bilbao (a) 4 0 4  
 Athletic Bilbao 1 1 2        Athletic Bilbao 1 2 3  
 Rayo Vallecano 1 4 5        Espanyol 1 0 1  
 Valencia 2 4 6      Valencia 2 0 2  
 Alavés 0 0 0    Espanyol 1 2 3  
 Espanyol 2 1 3        Espanyol 3 0 3
 Granada 1 1 2        Sevilla 1 1 2  
 Córdoba 0 1 1      Granada 1 0 1
 Sabadell 1 1 2    Sevilla 2 4 6  
 Sevilla 6 5 11        Athletic Bilbao 1
 Huesca 0 1 1        Barcelona 3
 Barcelona 4 8 12      Barcelona 5 4 9  
 Valladolid 0 0 0    Elche 0 0 0  
 Elche 0 1 1        Barcelona 1 3 4  
 L'Hospitalet 0 2 2        Atlético Madrid 0 2 2  
 Atlético Madrid 3 2 5      Atlético Madrid 2 2 4
 Cornellà 1 0 1    Real Madrid 0 2 2  
 Real Madrid 4 5 9        Barcelona 3 3 6
 Cádiz 1 0 1        Villarreal 1 1 2  
 Villarreal 2 3 5      Villarreal 1 2 3  
 Oviedo 0 0 0    Real Sociedad 0 2 2  
 Real Sociedad 0 2 2        Villarreal 1 1 2
 Betis 3 1 4        Getafe 0 0 0  
 Almería 4 2 6      Almería 1 0 1
 Getafe 3 2 5    Getafe 1 1 2  
 Eibar 0 1 1  

Round of 32

First leg

Second leg

Round of 16

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

Top goalscorers

Rank Player[8] Club Goals
1 Brazil Neymar Barcelona 7
Spain Iago Aspas Sevilla
3 Spain Aritz Aduriz Athletic Bilbao 5
France Kévin Gameiro Sevilla
Argentina Lionel Messi Barcelona
Spain Gerard Villarreal
Spain Pedro Barcelona
8 Spain Paco Alcácer Valencia 3
Spain Rubén Alcaraz L'Hospitalet
Ecuador Felipe Caicedo Espanyol
Spain Andrés Iniesta Barcelona
Uruguay Cristhian Stuani Espanyol
Spain Fernando Torres Atlético Madrid
Spain Urko Vera Mirandés

References

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