2014–15 Copa del Rey

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 Community of Madrid|Madrid CF|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-extending 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.

Round	Draw date	Date	Fixtures	Clubs	Format details
First round	31 July 2014	3 September 2014	18	83 → 65	New entries: Clubs participating in [2014–15 2014–15 Tercera División\|Tercera División\|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	31 July 2014	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	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 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
Round of 32	17 October 2014	3 December 2014 17 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
Round of 16	17 October 2014	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
Round of 16	17 October 2014	14 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
Quarter-finals	17 October 2014	21 January 2015	4	8 → 4	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: Luck of the draw. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
Quarter-finals	17 October 2014	28 January 2015	4	8 → 4	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: Luck of the draw. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
Semifinals	17 October 2014	11 February 2015	2	4 → 2	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: Luck of the draw. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
Semifinals	17 October 2014	4 March 2015	2	4 → 2	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: Luck of the draw. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
Final	17 October 2014	30 May 2015	1	2 → 1	Single match, stadium TBD by RFEF. UEFA Europa League qualification: winners qualified for 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, group stage.

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Double-match rounds enforced away goals rule, single-match rounds did not.
Games ending in a tie were decided in extra time; and if it persisted, by a penalty shoot-out.
Real Madrid, as participant in the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup, played its Round of 32 games on 29 October 2014 and 3 December 2014.
UEFA Europa League qualification: if the Cup winners had qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, the Cup runner-up would have qualified for the third qualifying round, then the 5th and 6th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga would qualify for group stage and play-off round respectively. However, if the Cup runners-up ended in Europa League places, the 5th, 6th and 7th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga would have qualified for the group stage, play-off round and third qualifying round respectively.

Similarly, if both finalists qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, the 5th, 6th and 7th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga would also qualify for group stage, play-off round and third qualifying round respectively.

At the date of the draw of the first and second round, Murcia was considered a team of Segunda División yet, and Mirandés of Segunda División B.

Qualified teams

The following teams competed in the 2014–15 Copa del Rey.
Twenty teams of 2014–15 La Liga:

Twenty teams of 2014–15 Segunda División :

36 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División B: the top five teams of each of the 4 groups, 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 twelve teams winners of a group of 2013–14 Tercera División that were promoted to Segunda División B.

Seven teams of 2014–15 Tercera División. Teams that qualified were six of eighteen champions that were not promoted to Segunda División B :

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. 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 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:

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

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. 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. 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 Girona Las Palmas Lugo Mirandés Numancia Real Betis Recreativo Sabadell * Valladolid	Segunda División B: Alcoyano Barakaldo Cádiz Cornellà Huesca Izarra L'Hospitalet Leioa Linense Lleida Esportiu Oviedo UCAM Murcia

Matches

Note: Sabadell received a bye.

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 were drawn against four teams from pot 2a and the two remaining teams in pot 1 were drawn in the same way with the pot 2b teams. The remaining team in pot 2b was drawn with a Segunda División team. The five remaining teams in this pot were drawn against five teams of the thirteen remaining teams of La Liga. 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 Atlético Madrid Athletic Bilbao	Real Sociedad Villarreal Sevilla	Alavés Albacete Las Palmas Real Betis Sabadell Valladolid	Almería Celta Vigo Córdoba Deportivo La Coruña Eibar Elche Espanyol Getafe Granada Levante Málaga Rayo Vallecano Valencia