The 2022–23 Copa del Rey is the 121st staging of the
Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
(including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition will automatically qualify for the
2023–24 UEFA Europa League group stage, and both the winners and runners-up will qualify for the four-team
2023–24 Supercopa de España
The 2023–24 Supercopa de España was the 40th edition of the Supercopa de España, an annual Association football, football competition for clubs in the Spanish football league system that were successful in its major competitions in the precedi ...
.
Real Betis
Real Betis Balompié, known as Real Betis () or just Betis, is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1907, it plays in La Liga. It holds home games at the Estadio Benito Vill ...
are the defending champions, having beaten
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...
on penalties in the previous edition's
final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
.
As across Spain, match times up to 30 October 2022 and from 26 March 2023 were
CEST CEST or cest may refer to:
* Central European Summer Time (UTC+2), daylight saving time observed in the central European time zone
* Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory
* Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer, a subset of Magnetization transfer in ...
(
UTC+2
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00. This time is used in:
As standard time (year-round)
''Principal cities: Cairo, Pretoria, Cape ...
). Times on interim ("winter") days were
CET
CET or cet may refer to:
Places
* Cet, Albania
* Cet, standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Cetus
* Colchester Town railway station (National Rail code CET), in Colchester, England
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Comcast En ...
(
UTC+1
UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. This time is used in:
*Central European Time
*West Africa Time
*Western European Summer Time
** B ...
). Matches played in the Canary Islands used the
WET (
UTC±00:00).
Schedule and format
In the summer of 2022, the RFEF released the calendar of the competition and confirmed the format of the previous season would remain.
;Notes
*Games ending in a draw are decided in extra time and, if still level, by a penalty shoot-out.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the competition. Reserve teams are not allowed to enter.
;Notes
Preliminary round
Draw
Teams were divided into four groups according to geographical criteria.
Matches
;Notes
First round
The first round was played by 110 of the 115 qualified teams, with the exceptions being the four participants of the
2022–23 Supercopa de España and
Primera RFEF champions. The ten winners from the previous preliminary round were paired with ten teams from
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ...
. The four
Copa Federación semi-finalists were drawn with the other four teams from La Liga, and the last two La Liga teams were drawn with the teams from the
Tercera RFEF. The last five teams from the Tercera RFEF were paired with five teams from the
Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...
. The last fifteen teams from Segunda División were paired with fifteen teams from the
Segunda RFEF. Finally, the nineteen teams from the Segunda RFEF were paired with the nineteen teams from the Primera RFEF.
A total of 55 games were played on 12 and 13 November 2022.
Draw
The draw was held on 24 October 2022. Teams were divided into seven pots.
Matches
;Notes
Second round
Draw
The draw will be held on 16 November 2022 in the RFEF headquarters in
Las Rozas Las Rozas may refer to:
Places
;Spain
*Las Rozas de Madrid, municipality in the Community of Madrid
* Las Rozas de Valdearroyo, municipality in Cantabria
Sport
*Las Rozas CF
Las Rozas Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Las Roz ...
. The
Primera RFEF champions enter in this round. Teams will be divided into five pots according to their division in the 2022–23 season. Matches will be played at the stadiums of lower-ranked teams. A total of 28 games will be played from 20 to 22 December 2022.
Matches
;Notes
References
External links
Royal Spanish Football Federation official websiteCopa del Rey at LFP website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Copa Del Rey 2022-23
2022–23
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...
1