The Copa del Rey 1910 comprised two different competitions held the same year.
Due to disagreements between the reigning champion of the tournament,
Club Ciclista de San Sebastián
Club Ciclista de San Sebastián was a cycling club based in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. In 1909 the football section won the Copa del Rey. A few months after this victory, the players who had won the tournament founded the club that w ...
, and some of the clubs invited, in 1910 two parallel competitions were held: an "official", organized by the newly created FEF (Federación Española de Fútbol) later
Royal Spanish Football Federation
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( es, Real Federación Española de Fútbol, RFEF), in
Madrid
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and an "unofficial", organized by the UECF (Unión Española de Clubes de Fútbol), in
San Sebastián
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. Both are currently recognized as official by the
RFEF
The Royal Spanish Football Federation ( es, Real Federación Española de Fútbol; RFEF) is the governing body of football in Spain. It is based in La Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas, a municipality near Madrid. It was founded on 14 October 1909 ...
.
Copa UECF (Unión Española de Clubes de Fútbol)
The competition started on 19 March, and concluded on 21 March, with the last group stage match.
Athletic Bilbao
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won the tournament for the third time in its history after beating
Vasconia
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1–0 in the
decisive match with a goal from
Remigio Iza.
The tournament is believed to have been the first time Athletic Bilbao wore what became their regular red-and-white striped jersey, having recently imported the first set of kit from England (along with a set for their sister club, later known as
Atletico Madrid).
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Group stage
Copa FEF (Federación Española de Fútbol)
The competition started on 24 May, and concluded on 26 May, with the last group stage match, in which FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded ...
lifted the trophy for the first time in its history with two victories over Deportivo la Coruña
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* Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as simply Deportivo, a Spanish football club
* Déportivo, a French rock band
* Deportivo (Mexicable)
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and Español Madrid, beating the latter in a dramatic 3–2 comeback in which Español netted two early goals thanks to Vicente Buylla, but then Barça fought back in the second half and scored via Charles Wallace, Carles Comamala
Carles Comamala López-Del Pan (17 April 1889 – 4 August 1983) was an orthopedic surgeon by profession and a football player for Barcelona between 1903 and 1911. He was a director of Barcelona in 1909–1911.
Early life and Career
Born in Ma ...
and Pepe Rodríguez.[
]
Group stage
References
External links
LinguaSport.comIFFHS.de
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1910
1910 domestic association football cups
1909–10 in Spanish football