The 2015 Copa del Rey Final will be a football match on 30 May 2015 to decide the winner of the 2014–15 Copa del Rey, the 111th edition of the Copa del Rey, Spain's primary football cup.

It will be played between Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, the latter club's home ground.

As Barcelona won the 2014–15 La Liga, Athletic qualify automatically as the cup representative in the 2015 Supercopa de España.

Background



Aymeric Laporte of Athletic and Lionel Messi of Barcelona in the team's league meeting on 13 September 2014

Barcelona have previously played 36 Copa del Rey Finals, a record bettered only by Real Madrid with 39.[1] However, Barcelona have won the competition a record 26 times.[1] Their most recent appearance in the final was the previous year's edition, in which they lost 1–2 to Real Madrid at Mestalla in Valencia.[1] Their most recent win was in 2012, beating Athletic Bilbao 3–0 at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid.[1] Their only previous final at the Camp Nou was a victory in 1963.[2]

Athletic Bilbao have previously played in 35 finals, winning 23, with only Barcelona winning more.[1] Their most recent final was in 2012, and their most recent victory in the tournament was in 1984, beating Barcelona 1–0 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.[1]

Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao have played each other in seven previous finals of the tournament. Barcelona won in 1920, 1942, 1953, 2009 and 2012, and Athletic Bilbao won in 1932 and 1984.[1]

The two teams played each other twice during the 2014–15 La Liga season. In the first instance, at Camp Nou on 13 September 2014, Barcelona won 2–0 with two goals from Neymar in the last 11 minutes of the game.[3] On 8 February 2015 at Athletic Bilbao's San Mamés Stadium, Barcelona won 5–2. Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez gave them a 2–0 half-time lead. Four goals came between the 59th and 66th minutes: Mikel Rico scored for Athletic, his teammate Óscar de Marcos caused an own goal, Neymar achieved a fourth for Barcelona and Aritz Aduriz a second for Athletic. Later on in the game, Xabier Etxeita was sent off for the hosts and Pedro netted a fifth for the visitors.[

Why is the match being played at the camp nou? I suspect foul play.

Krasid:
Why is the match being played at the camp nou? I suspect foul play.

It was slated for Santiago Bernabu;but Real Madrid refused the use of her stadium for copa del rey final.

Barca for the Treble

With FC Barcelona aim for the historic treble this season and Xavi's parting from the club - it remains a must win for the owners of the stadium of the final match of the copa del rey 2014/2015.

Messi, Suarez, Neymar will be the highlights of the match as the trio is the strongest three forwards in the whole of europe maybe the world this season beating BBC to that this 2014/2015 season.

#igersFCB

Omooba77:

It was slated for Santiago Bernabu;but Real Madrid refused the use of her stadium for copa del rey final.

What happened to Valencia's Mestalla? Why does it have to be the camp nou?

Krasid:
What happened to Valencia's Mestalla? Why does it have to be the camp nou?

the last time i checked...athletic bilbao aint complaining...so why is it causing u somuch heck bro?

prinzfavian:

the last time i checked...athletic bilbao aint complaining...so why is it causing u somuch heck bro?

The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy.

Krasid:
The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP_10bDxaVo

Visca Barca. Barca for treble

Venue for the final is known even before the tournament kicks-off for the season... so there is no foul play there!

RuuDie:
Venue for the final is known even before the tournament kicks-off for the season... so there is no foul play there!

Not true.The venue was decided when the finalist emerged and not before the tournament kicked off.

Krasid:
Not true. [b] The venue was decided when the finalist emerged [/b]and not before the tournament kicked off.

Before the semi-final second leg, Barcelona's board requested the final be held at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of their fierce rivals Real Madrid, as it is the largest stadium in Spain apart from their own Camp Nou.[22] At the same time, according to Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Ángel María Villar, wanted the final at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao.[22] That decision would give Athletic Bilbao home advantage, but could have been challenged by potential finalist Espanyol, whose team bus was vandalised on their last visit there.[22] On 25 March, the RFEF confirmed that it would be held at Barcelona's Camp Nou.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Copa_del_Rey_Final#Venue

http://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/barcelona-want-copa-del-rey-final-played-santiago-bernabeu-3988304

RuuDie:


Before the semi-final second leg, Barcelona's board requested the final be held at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of their fierce rivals Real Madrid, as it is the largest stadium in Spain apart from their own Camp Nou.[22] At the same time, according to Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Ángel María Villar, wanted the final at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao.[22] That decision would give Athletic Bilbao home advantage, but could have been challenged by potential finalist Espanyol, whose team bus was vandalised on their last visit there.[22] On 25 March, the RFEF confirmed that it would be held at Barcelona's Camp Nou. [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Copa_del_Rey_Final#Venue

They requested for the final to be held at the bernebeu before the 2nd leg semi final.The 2nd leg semi final was played on the 4th march 2015 and the venue selected on the 25th of March.

Krasid:
They requested for the final to be held at the bernebeu before the 2nd leg semi final.The 2nd leg semi final was played on the 4th march 2015 and the venue selected on the 25th of March.

I get you, I was wrong...
just trying to show that the final would have been held on your home turf had your guys agreed then there wouldn't be any need for your pasha-lity claim

In theory, the reason for not choosing a venue at the start of the season is to wait and see who the two finalists are and then play somewhere that is mutually beneficial, somewhere that can host both sets of fans and does not provide either team with an unfair advantage. That's the theory; in practice, it is a shambles.

Both finalists publicly insisted that the Bernabeu was the best option: located in the capital, a roughly similar distance from both cities and easily the biggest available neutral venue, maximizing the number of fans that could attend. They even wrote a joint open letter, requesting that Madrid host the final; again...

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/blog/espn-fc-united-blog/68/post/2368212/copa-del-rey-final-venue-for-barcelona-vs-athletic-bilbao-fraught-with-history-and-politics-writes-sid-lowe

Krasid:
The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy.

bro abeg, no be fight...keep hala-ing your trophy less Madrid and we keep Força-ing our Barca to treble.

Barca 3 vs 1 Athletic Bilbao.

Waiting for this game.

Thread for males and few females that love sports

Barca all the way!

prinzfavian:
Barca 3 vs 1 Athletic Bilbao.

Barca 4-0 Ath. Quote me after.

Forza Barca!!!!!!!!!

Ehe before nko na Barcelona get am nw

neymar to score @2.00. abeg score o

The real reason Spain does not have a National stadia like other countries is so they could spread the love round the country which actually make sense to me, they can decide to play at the Bernabeau, Camp Nou, Vincente El Caldron e.t.c at any time.
On the issue of the Copa Del Rey Final, it was initially meant to be played at the Bernabeau, but Perez in his shallow heart couldn't bear to see Barcelona lift another trophy at their stadia besides Barcelona and Madrid have got a loooooooooooooong history of hate (slaves and freeborn stuff). The Caldron couldn't be used because a concert was already scheduled for that day, Barcelona wanted to the final to hold at Valencia's Stadia while Bilbao wanted it to hold at Sevilla's. The two teams couldn't get to reach an agreement so the FA said 'Let it be hosted in one of your stadiums then' and it became a fight between the Camp Nou And Saint Mames. It was time to cast a vote and of course Camp Nou won due to its 80k CAPACITY.
That's why we'll be playing. Atlético Bilbao at home in the Copa Del Rey Final this evening.

Krasid:
The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy.

There is nothing fishy about having good players.

Atletic bilbao1-2 Barcelona... I say so

Krasid:
The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy.

twasn't fishy when bernabeu hosted the final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid some years back

[quote author=Krasid post=34171387]The way everything is being set up for Barcelona to win a treble is quite fishy madrid played the copa del rey final against athletico madrid at the santiago bernabeu in 2013 wen mourinho was in charge and u guys lost the game

Repping Barcelona. Barca 4 Atletic 1. Messi, Hatrick

Whatever is the result ...we know messi is getting that balon d'or in January.

Messi, please show no mercy today!! Kill them all!!