2015–16 Copa del Rey

Copa del Rey
114th Copa del Rey
Country Spain Spain
Teams 83
Champions Barcelona (28th title)
Runners-up Sevilla
Matches played 111
Goals scored 319 (2.87 per match)
Top goal scorer(s) John Guidetti
Lionel Messi
Munir
Álvaro Negredo
Luis Suárez
(5 goals each)

The 2015–16 Copa del Rey was the 114th staging of the Copa del Rey. Going into the tournament, the winners were assured a place for the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League Group stage. However, since the two finalists, Barcelona and Sevilla, both qualified for the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, respectively by winning the 2015–16 La Liga title and the 2015–16 Europa League, the cup winner's place in the 2016–17 Europa League group stage instead passed to the fifth-place team in La Liga, Athletic Bilbao.

Barcelona entered as the defending champions after winning the 2014–15 edition. They defeated Sevilla 2–0 in the final, winning their 28th title.

Schedule and format

Round Draw date Date Fixtures Clubs Format details
First round 21 July 2015[1] 2 September 2015 18 83 → 65 New entries: Clubs participating in Tercera and Segunda División B gained entry.
Byes: Six teams from Segunda División B (Barakaldo, UCAM Murcia, Villanovense, Racing Ferrol, UD Logroñés and Huracán Valencia) received a bye.
Opponents seeding: Teams faced each other according to proximity criteria.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Copa Federación qualification: losers qualified for 2015–16 Copa Federación, National phase.
Second round 9 September 2015 22 65 → 43 New entries: Clubs participating in Segunda División gained entry.
Byes: One Segunda División team (Zaragoza) received a bye.
Opponents seeding: Segunda División teams faced each other.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Third round 18 September 2015 14 October 2015 11 43 → 32 Byes: One team from Segunda División B or Tercera División or a team from Segunda División , which previously didn't receive a bye (Huesca), received one.
Opponents seeding: Segunda División teams faced each other.
Local team seeding: Draw of lots.
Knock-out tournament type: Single match
Round of 32 16 October 2015[2] 2 December 2015 16 32 → 16 New entries: Clubs participating in La Liga gained entry.
Opponents seeding: The seven teams from La Liga which qualified for 2015–16 UEFA competitions, faced the remaining seven teams from Segunda División B and Tercera División.
The five Segunda División teams played against La Liga teams.
The eight remaining La Liga teams faced each other.
Local team seeding: First leg at home of team in lower division.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
16 December 2015
Round of 16 18 December 2015 6 January 2016 8 16 → 8 Opponents seeding: First leg at home for the team in the lower division.
Local team seeding: First leg at home of the team in the lower division.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
13 January 2016
Quarter-finals 15 January 2016 [3] 20 January 2016 4 8 → 4 Opponents seeding: Draw of lots.
Local team seeding: Luck of the draw.
Knock-out tournament type: Double match
27 January 2016
Semifinals 29 January 2016 3 February 2016 2 4 → 2
10 February 2016
Final 22 May 2016 1 2 → 1 Single match, stadium TBD by RFEF.
UEFA Europa League qualification: winner qualified for 2016–17 UEFA Europa League Group stage.
Notes

Qualified teams

The following teams competed in the 2015–16 Copa del Rey.

20 teams of 2014–15 La Liga

21 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División (Barcelona B is excluded for being a reserve team):

24 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División B: the top five teams of each of the 4 groups (excluding reserve teams) and the four with the highest number of points out of the remaining non-reserve teams:

18 teams of 2014–15 Tercera División, champions of each one of the 18 groups (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 21 July 2015 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol, RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas, Madrid.[1] In this round, 37 teams from 2015–16 Segunda División B and 5 from 2015–16 Tercera División teams gained entry. In the draw, firstly six teams from Segunda División B received a bye and then, the remaining teams in the league and teams from Tercera División faced according to proximity criteria by next groups:

Pot 1
Group 1
Pot 2
Group 2
Pot 3
Group 3
Pot 4
Group 4
Segunda División B:
Arandina
Cultural Leonesa
Compostela
Guijuelo
Peña Sport
Pontevedra
Racing Ferrol
Racing Santander
Tudelano
UD Logroñés

Tercera División:
Condal
Laredo
Varea
Segunda División B:
Barakaldo
Ebro
Guadalajara
Mensajero
Portugalete
Rayo Majadahonda
Real Unión
Socuéllamos
Talavera de la Reina
Segunda División B:
Alcoyano
Hércules
Huracán Valencia
Lleida
Reus
Sabadell

Tercera División:
Ascó
Castellón
Formentera
Segunda División B:
Algeciras
Cádiz
Jumilla
Linares
Linense
Melilla
Mérida
Murcia
Recreativo
UCAM Murcia
Villanovense

Second round

In the second round teams from Segunda División played among themselves and teams from Segunda División B and Tercera played separately. Zaragoza received a bye for the third round.

Third round

  • Huesca received a bye for the Round of 32.

Final phase

The draw for the Round of 32 was held on October 16, 2015, in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In this round, all La Liga teams entered the competition.

Round of 32 pairings were as follows: the seven remaining teams participating in Segunda División B faced the La Liga teams which qualified for European competitions. The five remaining teams participating in Segunda División faced five La Liga teams which did not qualify for European competitions. The remaining eight La Liga teams faced each other. In matches involving teams from different league tiers, the team in the lower tier played the first leg at home. This rule was also applied in the Round of 16, but not for the Quarter-finals and Semi-finals, in which the order of legs was based on the luck of the draw.

Pot 1
Segunda División B
Pot 2
European competitions
Pot 3
Segunda División
Pot 4
Rest of Primera División
Barakaldo
Cádiz
Huesca
Linense
Reus
Villanovense
UD Logroñés
Barcelona (TH)
Real Madrid
Atlético Madrid
Valencia
Sevilla
Athletic Bilbao
Villarreal
Almería
Leganés
Llagostera
Mirandés
Ponferradina
Betis
Celta
Deportivo La Coruña
Eibar
Espanyol
Getafe
Granada
Las Palmas
Levante
Málaga
Rayo Vallecano
Real Sociedad
Sporting Gijón

Bracket

 
Round of 32Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                            
 
 
 
 
Linense000
 
 
 
Athletic Bilbao26 8
 
Athletic Bilbao314
 
 
 
Villarreal20 2
 
Huesca303
 
 
 
Villarreal22 4
 
Athletic Bilbao112
 
 
 
Barcelona23 5
 
Villanovense011
 
 
 
Barcelona06 6
 
Barcelona426
 
 
 
Espanyol10 1
 
Levante112
 
 
 
Espanyol12 3
 
Barcelona718
 
 
 
Valencia01 1
 
Barakaldo101
 
 
 
Valencia12 3
 
Valencia437
 
 
 
Granada00 0
 
Leganés202
 
 
 
Granada (a)11 2
 
Valencia112
 
 
 
Las Palmas10 1
 
Ponferradina303
 
 
 
Eibar04 4
 
Eibar224
 
 
 
Las Palmas33 6
 
Las Palmas213
 
 
 
Real Sociedad11 2
 
Barcelona2
 
 
 
Sevilla0
 
Real Betis235
 
 
 
Sporting Gijón03 3
 
Real Betis000
 
 
 
Sevilla24 6
 
Logroñés000
 
 
 
Sevilla32 5
 
Sevilla235
 
 
 
Mirandés00 0
 
Mirandés213
 
 
 
Málaga10 1
 
Mirandés134
 
 
 
Deportivo10 1
 
Llagostera112
 
 
 
Deportivo21 3
 
Sevilla426
 
 
 
Celta02 2
 
Cádiz1w/o
 
 
 
Real Madrid3
 
Cádiz000
 
 
 
Celta32 5
 
Almería101
 
 
 
Celta31 4
 
Celta033
 
 
 
Atlético Madrid02 2
 
Rayo Vallecano (a)213
 
 
 
Getafe03 3
 
Rayo Vallecano101
 
 
 
Atlético Madrid13 4
 
Reus101
 
 
Atlético Madrid21 3
 

Round of 32

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Villanovense 1–6 Barcelona 0–0 1–6
Reus 1–3 Atlético Madrid 1–2 0–1
Leganés 2–2 (a) Granada 2–1 0–1
Rayo Vallecano (a) 3–3 Getafe 2–0 1–3
Barakaldo 1–5 Valencia 1–3 0–2
UD Logroñés 0–5 Sevilla 0–3 0–2
Almería 1–4 Celta 1–3 0–1
Llagostera 2–3 Deportivo La Coruña 1–2 1–1
Real Betis 5–3 Sporting Gijón 2–0 3–3
Cádiz Real Madrid 1–3 w/o
Linense 0–8 Athletic Bilbao 0–2 0–6
Huesca 3–4 Villarreal 3–2 0–2
Mirandés 3–1 Málaga 2–1 1–0
Levante 2–3 Espanyol 1–1 1–2
Ponferradina 3–4 Eibar 3–0 0–4
Las Palmas 3–2 Real Sociedad 2–1 1–1

First leg

Second leg

Round of 16

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Athletic Bilbao 4–2 Villarreal 3–2 1–0
Mirandés 4–1 Deportivo La Coruña 1–1 3–0
Valencia 7–0 Granada 4–0 3–0
Real Betis 0–6 Sevilla 0–2 0–4
Barcelona 6–1 Espanyol 4–1 2–0
Rayo Vallecano 1–4 Atlético Madrid 1–1 0–3
SD Eibar 4–6 Las Palmas 2–3 2–3
Cádiz 0–5 Celta 0–3 0–2

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Celta 3–2 Atlético Madrid 0–0 3–2
Athletic Bilbao 2–5 Barcelona 1–2 1–3
Valencia 2–1 Las Palmas 1–1 1–0
Sevilla 5–0 Mirandés 2–0 3–0

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Barcelona 8–1 Valencia 7–0 1–1
Sevilla 6–2 Celta 4–0 2–2

First leg

Second leg

Final

Barcelona 2–0 (a.e.t.) Sevilla
Alba  97'
Neymar  120+2'
Report
Attendance: 54,907

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals[7]
1 Spain Álvaro Negredo Valencia 5
Sweden John Guidetti Celta
Argentina Lionel Messi Barcelona
Spain Munir Barcelona
Uruguay Luis Suárez Barcelona
6 Spain Abdón Prats Mirandés 4
Spain Alain Arroyo Barakaldo
Spain Iago Aspas Celta
Brazil Neymar Barcelona
9 Spain José Cutillas Villanovense 3
France Kevin Gameiro Sevilla
France Antoine Griezmann Atlético Madrid
Denmark Michael Krohn-Dehli Sevilla
Spain Sandro Ramírez Barcelona
Spain Iñaki Williams Athletic Bilbao

References

  1. 1 2 "Se pone en marcha la Copa de SM el Rey 2015/2016" (in Spanish). RFEF. 17 July 2015.
  2. "Este viernes a las 12:00, sorteo de Copa de SM El Rey en directo" (in Spanish). RFEF. 16 October 2015.
  3. "Vive con nosotros por streaming el sorteo de los cuartos de final de la Copa del Rey" (in Spanish). RFEF. 14 January 2016.
  4. "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League 2013/14, article 2.04" (PDF). Nyon: UEFA. March 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  5. "Osasuna, eliminado de la Copa del Rey por alineación indebida" (in Spanish). El País. 15 September 2015.
  6. "Real Madrid thrown out of Copa Del Rey for fielding ineligible player". SkySports.com. 4 December 2015.
  7. "Copa del Rey 2015/2016: Top Scorers". World Football. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
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