The 2022 Copa Federación de España was the 30th edition of the
Copa Federación de España
The Copa Real Federación Española de Fútbol, popularly known as the Copa Federación (Federation Cup) or Copa RFEF, is a Spanish football competition organised by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). It has been held since the 1993−9 ...
, also known as Copa RFEF, a knockout competition for
Spanish football
Football is the most popular sport in Spain, with 61% of the population interested in it. Spain has some of the most influential teams in Europe (Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, and others) as well as many playe ...
clubs.
The competition began in August with the first games of the Regional stages and ended 2 November with the final of the National tournament. As part of the new competition format started in 2019, the four semifinalists qualified for the
Copa del Rey
The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...
first round.
Regional tournaments
Andalusia tournament
The
Royal Andalusian Football Federation (RFAF) decided to create the 'Copa RFAF' in 2020. The finalists of this competition were selected as the Andalusian representatives in the national phase of Copa RFEF.
Final
Aragon tournament
Eight teams joined the tournament:
Atlético Monzón
Club de Fútbol Atlético de Monzón is a Spanish football team based in Monzón, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1950 it plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Isidro Calderón'', with a 5,000-seat capacity.
Season to sea ...
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Barbastro
Barbastro (Latin: ''Barbastrum'' or ''Civitas Barbastrensis'', Aragonese: ''Balbastro'') is a city in the Somontano county, province of Huesca, Spain. The city (also known originally as Barbastra or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers C ...
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Binéfar (5),
Brea (4),
Calamocha
Calamocha is a town and municipality of Teruel province in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. In 2015 the municipality had a population of 4,417 inhabitants.
Calamocha is the administrative centre of the Aragonese ''comarca'' of Jiloca ...
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Caspe
Caspe is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain, seat of the comarca of Bajo Aragón-Caspe. As of 2018 it had a population of 9,525 inhabitants (INE 2018) and its municipality, of 5 ...
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Cuarte (5) and
Ejea (5). The group phase started 14 August.
Group 1
Group 2
Final
Asturias tournament
12 teams joined the tournament. The draw was made 15 July and the tournament started 7 August.
Group stage
=Group A
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=Group B
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=Group C
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=Group D
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Knockout stage
The knockout stage matches will be played at Las Tolvas Stadium, in
Laviana.
Final
Balearic Islands tournament
Llosetense (5) and
Platges de Calvià (5) joined the tournament.
Basque Country tournament
Leioa
Leioa () is a municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, in northern Spain. It is located south of Getxo and Berango delimitating east and south with Erandio, Portugalete and Sestao. Today it is part of the Bilbao conurbation. Its population in 2019 ...
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Real Unión
Real Unión Club, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Irun, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa, near the border with France. Founded on 15 May 1915 it currently plays in Primera División RF ...
(3) joined the tournament.
Canary Islands tournament
Gran Tarajal
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People
*Grandmother, affectionately known as "gran"
* Gran (name)
Places
* Gran, the historical German name for Esztergom, a city and the primatial metropolitan see of Hungary
* Gran, Norway, a municipality in Innlandet coun ...
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Herbania (6),
Mensajero (5),
Panadería Pulido (5) and
Unión Viera (6) joined the tournament.
Final
Cantabria tournament
Eight teams joined the tournament. All matches were played in
San Francisco Stadium,
Reinosa
Reinosa is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain. , it has 10,307 inhabitants. The municipality, one of the smallest by land area in Cantabria, is notable for being one of the nearest towns to the headwaters of the Ebro River. It is surrounded by th ...
.
Final
Castile-La Mancha tournament
Ten teams (
Azuqueca (5),
Calvo Sotelo (5),
Conquense (5),
Marchamalo (5),
Socuéllamos
Socuéllamos is a town and municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha. It is famous for its wines. The abandoned town of Torre de Vejezate is located within Socuéllamos municipal term.
History
Juan Osór ...
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Talavera de la Reina
Talavera de la Reina () is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality of Spain, part of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Its population of 83,303 makes it the second most populated municipalit ...
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Toledo
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* Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain
* Province of Toledo, Spain
* Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States
Toledo may also refer to:
Places Belize
* Toledo District
* Toledo Settlement
Bolivia
* Toledo, Or ...
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Torrijos Torrijos can mean:
People
*General José María de Torrijos y Uriarte (1791–1831), 19th-century Spanish Liberal politician
*Omar Torrijos (1929–1981) was a Panamanian army officer, de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981, and co-negotiato ...
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Villarrobledo
Villarrobledo () is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Albacete, part of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It's better known for having the world's largest area covered by vineyards (more than 30,000 has., approxi ...
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Villarrubia (5)) joined the XXI Trofeo Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, acting also as the regional Copa RFEF tournament.
Final
Castile and León tournament
Arandina (5),
Atlético Bembibre (5),
Cultural Leonesa
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa (), better known as Cultural Leonesa or La Cultural, is a Spanish football team based in León, in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. Founded on 5 August 1923, it currently plays in Primera División RFE ...
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Salamanca
Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...
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Santa Marta
Santa Marta (), officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta (), is a port List of cities in Colombia, city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena Department and the fou ...
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Unionistas (3) and
Zamora (4) joined the tournament.
Final
Catalonia tournament
Badalona
Badalona (, , , ) is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia (Spain). It is located to the north east of Barcelona, on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By population, ...
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Terrassa
Terrassa () is a city in central-eastern Catalonia and in the province of Barcelona (Spain). It is one of the two capitals of Vallès Occidental county, being the larger in both area and population.
The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ''Te ...
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Ceuta tournament
Betis de Hadú was directly selected by Federación de Fútbol de Ceuta due to sporting merits.
Extremadura tournament
8 teams registered for the tournament:
Azuaga (5),
Don Álvaro (5),
Fuente de Cantos (5),
Montehermoso (5),
Plasencia
Plasencia () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cáceres, Extremadura. , it has a population of 41,047.
Plasencia is located in the Western-Central Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Sistema Central. Housing primarily ...
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Trujillo (5),
Villafranca (5) and
Villanovense (4).
Final
Galicia tournament
A total of 8 teams joined the tournament.
Final
La Rioja tournament
Casalarreina
Casalarreina is a town located in the Provinces of Spain, province of La Rioja (autonomous community), La Rioja, Spain. It is located from Logroño, the capital of La Rioja, in the north-west.
The first documents about the village were around 117 ...
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La Calzada (5),
Náxara (5) and
Varea (5) joined the tournament.
Final
Madrid tournament
6 teams joined the tournament:
Alcalá (5),
Internacional (3),
Móstoles URJC (5),
San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes (, colloquially called "Sanse") is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located north of Madrid.
Geography
It forms an urban continuum with the neighboring Alcobendas,
Transpor ...
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Torrejón (5) and
Ursaria (5).
Group A
Group B
Final
Melilla tournament
Melilla
Melilla (, ; ) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of . It was part of the Province of Málaga un ...
was directly selected by Real Federación Melillense de Fútbol due to sporting merits.
Murcia tournament
Four teams joined the tournament.
Final
Navarre tournament
Eight teams joined the tournament.
Final
Valencian Community tournament
6 teams joined the tournament:
Alcoyano (3),
Alzira (4),
Atzeneta (5),
Benigànim
Benigànim is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community
The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous commu ...
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Orihuela
Orihuela (; ''Corpus Toponímic Valencià''. Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. 2009, València.) is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The c ...
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Silla
Silla (; Old Korean: wikt:徐羅伐#Old Korean, 徐羅伐, Yale romanization of Korean, Yale: Syerapel, Revised Romanization of Korean, RR: ''Seorabeol''; International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) was a Korean kingdom that existed between ...
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Group A
Group B
Final
National phase
National phase will be played between 28 September and 2 November with 32 teams (20 winners of the Regional Tournaments, the best 5 teams from
2021–22 Segunda División RFEF
The 2021–22 Segunda División RFEF season was the first for the Segunda División RFEF, the new fourth highest level in the Spanish football league system. It supplanted Tercera División, which downgraded to the fifth tier as Tercera Divisió ...
not yet qualified to
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
and the best 7 teams from
2021–22 Tercera División RFEF
The 2021–22 Tercera División RFEF season was the first for the national fifth level in the Spanish football league system. The league has 18 groups like the former fourth tier Tercera División.
Competition format
*The group champions were p ...
not yet qualified to
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
). The four semifinalists will qualify to
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
first round.
Qualified teams
;*5 best teams from
2021–22 Segunda División RFEF
The 2021–22 Segunda División RFEF season was the first for the Segunda División RFEF, the new fourth highest level in the Spanish football league system. It supplanted Tercera División, which downgraded to the fifth tier as Tercera Divisió ...
not yet qualified to
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
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Bergantiños
Bergantiños is a comarca in the Galician province of A Coruña. The comarca is made up by the municipalities of Cabana de Bergantiños, Coristanco, A Laracha, Laxe, Malpica de Bergantiños, Ponteceso and its capital, Carballo. As of 2020, the ...
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Formentera
Formentera (, ) is a Spanish island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain) together with Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza.
Formentera is the smallest and most southerly island of the ...
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Izarra (4)
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Mar Menor
Mar Menor (, "minor/smaller sea") is a coastal saltwater lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula located south-east of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Spain, near Cartagena.
Its name is the opposite of the Mediterranean, which is the (greater/lar ...
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San Roque Lepe (4)
;*7 best teams from
2021–22 Tercera División RFEF
The 2021–22 Tercera División RFEF season was the first for the national fifth level in the Spanish football league system. The league has 18 groups like the former fourth tier Tercera División.
Competition format
*The group champions were p ...
not yet qualified to
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
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Anguiano
Anguiano () is a small town in the province of La Rioja, Spain. It is located near Nájera and has a population of about 546 people (2006).
Anguiano is famous for its caparrones, red beans that are usually eaten in a stew with chorizo, and a ye ...
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Illescas (5)
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Illueca
Illueca is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 3,396 inhabitants.
Antipope Benedict XIII was born and later buried here.
See also
* List of ...
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Moralo (5)
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Poblense (5)
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Somozas (5)
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Xerez (5)
;*Winners of Autonomous Communities tournaments
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Alcalá (5)
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Alzira (4)
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Arenteiro (4)
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Atlético Monzón
Club de Fútbol Atlético de Monzón is a Spanish football team based in Monzón, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1950 it plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Isidro Calderón'', with a 5,000-seat capacity.
Season to sea ...
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Avilés
Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias.
The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...
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Betis de Hadú (6)
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Huarte (5)
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Lorca (5)
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Marbella
Marbella ( , , ) is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is part of the Costa del Sol and is the headquarters of the Association of Municipalities of the re ...
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Melilla
Melilla (, ; ) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of . It was part of the Province of Málaga un ...
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Naval
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Náxara (5)
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Panadería Pulido (5)
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Platges de Calvià (5)
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Puente Genil
Puente Genil () is a Spanish city in the province of Córdoba, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is situated about 45 miles (70 km) from the provincial capital, Córdoba. It has a population of around 30,000 people.
Etymology
The name o ...
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Real Unión
Real Unión Club, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Irun, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa, near the border with France. Founded on 15 May 1915 it currently plays in Primera División RF ...
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Terrassa
Terrassa () is a city in central-eastern Catalonia and in the province of Barcelona (Spain). It is one of the two capitals of Vallès Occidental county, being the larger in both area and population.
The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ''Te ...
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Trujillo (5)
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Villarrubia (5)
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Zamora (4)
Draw
The draw for the entire tournament was made at the RFEF headquarters on 15 September. The teams were divided into four pots based on geographical criteria. Each pot will be played independently until the semi-finals.
Bracket
Round of 32
;Pot A
;Pot B
;Pot C
;Pot D
Round of 16
;Pot A
;Pot B
;Pot C
;Pot D
Quarter-finals
Winners will qualify to the
2022–23 Copa del Rey
The 2022–23 Copa del Rey was the 121st staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played), the oldest official football competition in Spain. The winners of the competition would have automatically qualified ...
first round.
;Pot A
;Pot B
;Pot C
;Pot D
Semi-finals
Final
References
{{2022–23 in European football (UEFA)
Copa Federación de España seasons
2022–23 in Spanish football cups