2017–18 Copa del Rey

116th Copa del Rey
Tournament details
Country	Spain
Teams	83
Final positions
Champions	Barcelona (30th title)
Runner-up	Sevilla
Tournament statistics
Matches played	112
Goals scored	307 (2.74 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Víctor Curto (6 goals)
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The 2017–18 Copa del Rey was the 116th staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The winners were assured a place for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Barcelona were the three-time defending champions, and successfully defended their title following a 5–0 win over Sevilla in the final. Times up to 28 October 2017 and from 25 March 2018 are CEST (UTC+2). Times from 29 October 2017 to 24 March 2018 are CET (UTC+1).

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Round	Draw date	Date	Fixtures	No. of Clubs	Format details
First Round	28 July 2017	30 August 2017	18	83 → 65	New entries: Clubs participating in Tercera and Segunda División B gained entry. Byes: Seven teams from Segunda División B 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 2017–18 Copa Federación, National phase.
Second round		6 September 2017	22	65 → 43	New entries: Clubs participating in Segunda División gained entry. Byes: One Segunda División B team 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	8 September 2017	20 September 2017	11	43 → 32	Byes: One team from Segunda División B or Tercera División which previously did not receive a bye, 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	28 September 2017	25 October 2017	16	32 → 16	New entries: Clubs participating in La Liga gained entry. Opponents seeding: The seven teams from La Liga which qualified for 2017–18 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
		29 November 2017
Round of 16	5 December 2017	3 January 2018	8	16 → 8	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: First leg at home of the team in the lower division. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
		10 January 2018
Quarter-finals	12 January 2018	17 January 2018	4	8 → 4	Opponents seeding: Draw of lots. Local team seeding: Luck of the draw. Knock-out tournament type: Double match
		24 January 2018
Semi-finals	26 January 2018	31 January 2018	2	4 → 2
		7 February 2018
Final		21 April 2018	1	2 → 1	Single match, stadium TBD by RFEF. UEFA Europa League qualification: winners qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Notes

• Double-match rounds enforced the away goals rule, single-match rounds did not.
• Games ending in a tie were decided in extra time, and if still level, by a penalty shoot-out.

The following teams qualified for the competition. Reserve teams were excluded.

La Liga the 20 teams of the 2016–17 season	Segunda División the 21 non-reserve teams of the 2016–17 season	Segunda División B the top five non-reserve teams of each group and the four with the highest number of points 2016–17 season excluding reserve teams	Tercera División the best non-reserve team of each one of the eighteen groups of the 2016–17 season
Alavés Athletic Bilbao Atlético Madrid Barcelona Celta Vigo Deportivo La Coruña Eibar Espanyol Granada Las Palmas Leganés Málaga Osasuna Real Betis Real Madrid Real Sociedad Sevilla Sporting Gijón Valencia Villarreal	Alcorcón Almería Cádiz Córdoba Elche Getafe Gimnàstic Girona Huesca Levante Lugo Mallorca Mirandés Numancia Oviedo Rayo Vallecano Reus Tenerife UCAM Murcia Valladolid Zaragoza	Albacete Alcoyano Atlético Baleares Badalona Cartagena Cultural Leonesa Fuenlabrada Hércules Leioa Lleida Esportiu Lorca FC Marbella Melilla Mérida Murcia Ponferradina Pontevedra Racing Ferrol Racing Santander Real Unión Rayo Majadahonda Toledo Villanovense UD Logroñés	Antequera Arcos Avilés Cacereño Calahorra Cultural Durango Formentera Gimnástica Segoviana Gimnástica Torrelavega Lorca Deportiva Olímpic Olot Peña Sport Rápido de Bouzas Talavera de la Reina Tarazona UD San Fernando Unión Adarve

The draw for the first and the second round was held on 28 July 2017 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol, RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas, Madrid.^[1] In this round, 32 teams from the 2016–17 Segunda División B and ten from the 2016–17 Tercera División teams gained entry. In the draw, firstly six teams from Segunda División B received a bye and then, the remaining teams this league and teams from Tercera División faced according to proximity criteria by next groups:

• Atlético Baleares, Racing Ferrol, Hércules, Alcoyano, Fuenlabrada, Mallorca, and Mérida received a bye to the second round.

Formentera received a bye for the third round.

Lleida Esportiu received a bye for the round of 32.

The draw for the Round of 32 was held on 28 September 2017, in La Ciudad del Fútbol, Las Rozas de Madrid. In this round, all La Liga teams entered the competition.

Round of 32 pairings were as follows: the seven remaining teams participating in the 2016–17 Segunda División B and Tercera División faced the 2017–18 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 will also be applied in the Round of 16, but not for the Quarter-finals and Semi-finals, in which the order of legs will be based on the luck of the draw.

Pot 1 Segunda B and Tercera División	Pot 2 European competitions	Pot 3 Segunda División	Pot 4 Rest of Primera División
Cartagena Elche Formentera Fuenlabrada Lleida Esportiu Murcia Ponferradina	Champions League: Atlético Madrid Barcelona (TH) Real Madrid Sevilla 0 Europa League: Athletic Bilbao Real Sociedad Villarreal	Cádiz Numancia Tenerife Valladolid Zaragoza	Alavés Celta Vigo Deportivo La Coruña Eibar Espanyol Getafe Girona Las Palmas Leganés Levante Málaga Real Betis Valencia

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Valladolid	1	0	1
	Leganés	2	1	3
							Leganés (a)	1	1	2
							Villarreal	0	2	2
	Ponferradina	1	1	2
	Villarreal	0	3	3
													Leganés (a)	0	2	2
													Real Madrid	1	1	2
	Numancia	2	1	3
	Málaga	1	1	2
							Numancia	0	2	2
							Real Madrid	3	2	5
	Fuenlabrada	0	2	2
	Real Madrid	2	2	4
																			Leganés	1	0	1
																			Sevilla	1	2	3
	Lleida Esportiu (a)	0	3	3
	Real Sociedad	1	2	3
							Lleida Esportiu	0	0	0
							Atlético Madrid	4	3	7
	Elche	1	0	1
	Atlético Madrid	1	3	4
													Atlético Madrid	1	1	2
													Sevilla	2	3	5
	Cádiz	1	5	6
	Real Betis	2	3	5
							Cádiz	0	1	1
							Sevilla	2	2	4
	Cartagena	0	0	0
	Sevilla	3	4	7
																									Sevilla			0
																									Barcelona			5
	Tenerife	0	2	2
	Espanyol	2	3	5
							Espanyol	1	2	3
							Levante	1	0	1
	Girona	0	1	1
	Levante	2	1	3
													Espanyol	1	0	1
													Barcelona	0	2	2
	Eibar	1	0	1
	Celta Vigo	2	1	3
							Celta Vigo	1	0	1
							Barcelona	1	5	6
	Murcia	0	0	0
	Barcelona	3	5	8
																			Barcelona	1	2	3
																			Valencia	0	0	0
	Deportivo La Coruña	1	3	4
	Las Palmas	4	2	6
							Las Palmas	1	0	1
							Valencia	1	4	5
	Zaragoza	0	1	1
	Valencia	2	4	6
													Valencia (p)	2	1	3
													Alavés	1	2	3
	Formentera	1	1	2
	Athletic Bilbao	1	0	1
							Formentera	1	0	1
							Alavés	3	2	5
	Getafe	0	0	0
	Alavés	1	3	4

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cartagena (3)	0–7	Sevilla (1)	0–3	0–4
Elche (3)	1–4	Atlético Madrid (1)	1–1	0–3
Murcia (3)	0–8	Barcelona (1)	0–3	0–5
Fuenlabrada (3)	2–4	Real Madrid (1)	0–2	2–2
Formentera (3)	2–1	Athletic Bilbao (1)	1–1	1–0
Lleida Esportiu (3)	3–3 (a)	Real Sociedad (1)	0–1	3–2
Ponferradina (3)	1–3	Villarreal (1)	1–0	0–3
Zaragoza (2)	1–6	Valencia (1)	0–2	1–4
Numancia (2)	3–2	Málaga (1)	2–1	1–1
Valladolid (2)	1–3	Leganés (1)	1–2	0–1
Cádiz (2)	6–5	Real Betis (1)	1–2	5–3
Tenerife (2)	2–3	Espanyol (1)	0–0	2–3
Getafe (1)	0–4	Alavés (1)	0–1	0–3
Deportivo La Coruña (1)	4–6	Las Palmas (1)	1–4	3–2
Girona (1)	1–3	Levante (1)	0–2	1–1
Eibar (1)	1–3	Celta Vigo (1)	1–2	0–1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Formentera (3)	1–5	Alavés (1)	1–3	0–2
Lleida Esportiu (3)	0–7	Atlético Madrid (1)	0–4	0–3
Numancia (2)	2–5	Real Madrid (1)	0–3	2–2
Celta Vigo (1)	1–6	Barcelona (1)	1–1	0–5
Cádiz (2)	1–4	Sevilla (1)	0–2	1–2
Leganés (1)	2–2 (a)	Villarreal (1)	1–0	1–2
Las Palmas (1)	1–5	Valencia (1)	1–1	0–4
Espanyol (1)	3–2	Levante (1)	1–2	2–0

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Valencia	3–3 (3–2 p)	Alavés	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Atlético Madrid	2–5	Sevilla	1–2	1–3
Espanyol	1–2	Barcelona	1–0	0–2
Leganés	2–2 (a)	Real Madrid	0–1	2–1

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Leganés	1–3	Sevilla	1–1	0–2
Barcelona	3–0	Valencia	1–0	2–0

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Víctor Curto	Murcia	6
2	Joaquín Correa	Sevilla	5
	Luis Suárez	Barcelona
4	Munir	Alavés	4
	Lionel Messi	Barcelona
6	José Arnaiz	Barcelona	3
	David Barral	Cádiz
	Wissam Ben Yedder	Sevilla
	Jonathan Calleri	Las Palmas
	Juan Carlos	Tenerife
	Ermedin Demirović	Alavés
	Lolo	Elche
	Borja Mayoral	Real Madrid
	Santi Mina	Valencia
	Gerard Moreno	Espanyol
	Rodrigo	Valencia
	Lucas Vázquez	Real Madrid
	Luciano Vietto	Valencia

• Royal Spanish Football Federation official website
• Copa del Rey at LFP website
• Copa del Rey at BDFútbol