Every Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Real Madrid | OneFootball

Barcelona and Real Madrid meet in the Copa del Rey final this evening, as club football’s biggest game takes on added importance.

Spanish football’s superpowers go head-to-head in Seville with silverware at stake. Barcelona and Real Madrid are the most successful Spanish sides of all time and tonight’s tie will be the eighth time they’ve contested the Copa del Rey decider.

Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona (1936)

Ricardo Zamora’s ‘impossible save’ denied Barcelona a last-gasp equaliser in the first-ever El Clásico final. The goalkeeper’s heroics helped Real Madrid to a seventh title, a stop still referenced widely in Spanish football.

Eugenio Hilario and Simón Lecue had put Real Madrid 2-0 up inside 12 minutes, before Josep Escola’s response before half-time. Escola was then denied in the final seconds by a stunning Zamora save, with the La Liga goalkeeping award for the lowest goals-to-games ratio named after the former Madrid shot-stopper.

This was the final Spanish Cup final for three years, following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. As a result of that war, it was also the last to be named The Copa del Presidente de la República Final.

Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid (1968)

Three decades passed before the eternal rivals met again in the Spanish Cup decider.

A Fernando Zunzunegui own goal settled the game in Barcelona’s favour, as the Catalans upset a Real Madrid team who won eight of nine La Liga titles between 1961 and 1969.

Real Madrid 4-0 Barcelona (1974)

Six years later, the roles were reversed.

Barcelona cantered to La Liga title success, a campaign that included a 5-0 thrashing of Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. The capital club finished eighth in a disastrous campaign but ripped up the form book to stun Barcelona at the Vicente Calderon.

Barcelona 2-1 Real Madrid (1983)

Real Madrid endured agony in 1982/83 as the capital club finished runners-up in FIVE different competitions.

Los Blancos were beaten 2-1 by Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final, finished as La Liga runners-up to Athletic Bilbao by a single point, and lost the European Cup Winners’ Cup decider to Sir Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen.

To add even more insult to injury, Real were also beaten in the Supercopa de Espana and short-lived Copa de la Liga.

Barcelona 2-0 Real Madrid (1990)

Barcelona have not beaten Real Madrid in a Copa del Rey final in 35 years, with their last success coming in 1990.

That season, Johan Cruyff’s team finally conquered a Real Madrid juggernaut that had dominated the Spanish football landscape. Real Madrid won five La Liga titles on the bounce between 1986 and 1990, but Barcelona’s breakthrough win was a shift in the balance of power.

Guillermo Amor and Julio Salinas got the goals in a vital victory for Barcelona’s emerging side. The following season, Cruyff’s ‘Dream Team’ won the first four successive titles, with the club’s maiden European Cup success also arriving in 1992.

Real Madrid 1-0 Barcelona (2011)

Barcelona and Real Madrid’s rivalry reached unprecedented heights in the early 2010s. Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho traded barbs, while Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo competed for the status of the world’s finest footballer. Two teams at the top of their game met four times in just 18 days in 2010/11, with crucial contests in La Liga, the Champions League and Copa del Rey.

Barcelona went on to claim the title and progress from an El Clasico European semi-final, but Real ended the treble dream of their bitter rivals. Ronaldo’s magnificent extra-time header settled a nerve-jangling Copa del Rey final for Los Blancos.

Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona (2014)

Gareth Bale in full flight was a mesmerising watch.

The Welsh winger’s time in Spain soured towards its conclusion but Bale’s star burned bright. His debut season saw Bale help Real Madrid to Champions League and Copa del Rey success, with the world-record signing scoring the winner in both finals.

His iconic individual effort in the Copa del Rey final lives long in the memory. Bale burned past Marc Barta – taking the long road off the side of the pitch – to score a sensational goal.

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