1928 Copa del Rey

1928 King Alfonso XIII's Cup
28th Copa del Rey
Tournament details
Country	Spain
Teams	26
Defending champions	Real Unión
Final positions
Champions	FC Barcelona (8th title)
Runner-up	Real Sociedad
Tournament statistics
Matches played	139
Goals scored	644 (4.63 per match)
	← 1927 1928–29 →

The King Alfonso XIII's Cup 1928 was the 28th staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition.

The competition started on 31 January 1928, and concluded on 29 June 1928, with the second final tiebreaker, held at the Estadio El Sardinero in Santander. FC Barcelona won the competition for the eighth time.^[1]^[2]

Calendar edit

Phase	Round	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Qualifying round	31 January 1928	2 February 1928
Group stage	Matchday 1	5 February 1928
	Matchday 2	12 February 1928
	Matchday 3	19 February 1928
	Matchday 4	26 February 1928
	Matchday 5	4 March 1928
	Matchday 6	11 March 1928
	Matchday 7	18 March 1928
	Matchday 8	25 March 1928
	Matchday 9	1 April 1928
	Matchday 10	8 April 1928
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	15 April 1928	29 April 1928
	Semi-finals	6 May 1928	13 May 1928
	Final	20 May 1928
	Tiebreaker 1	22 May 1928
	Tiebreaker 2	29 June 1928

Teams edit

As in the previous tournament, 26 teams entered the competition.

Aragón: Iberia SC, Patria Aragón
Asturias: Real Oviedo, Racing de Sama
Balearic Islands: US Mahón
Cantabria: Racing de Santander, Gimnástica de Torrelavega
Castile and León: Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, Real Unión Deportiva
Catalonia: FC Barcelona, CD Europa
Extremadura: Patria FC
Galicia: Celta de Vigo, Deportivo de La Coruña
Gipuzkoa: Real Unión, Real Sociedad
Murcia: Real Murcia, Cartagena FC
Centre Region: Real Madrid, Athletic Madrid
South Region: Sevilla FC, Real Betis
Valencia: Valencia CF, Levante FC
Biscay: Athletic Bilbao, CD Alavés

Qualifying round edit

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	10–1	Patria FC	7–0	3–1
US Mahón	3–13	CD Europa	1–5	2–8

Group stage edit

Group I edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Celta de Vigo	10	7	1	2	55	17	15
Real Oviedo	10	7	1	2	39	19	15
Deportivo de La Coruña	10	6	1	3	32	14	13
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa	10	4	1	5	23	33	9
Racing de Sama	10	2	0	8	13	43	4
Real Unión Deportiva	10	2	0	8	15	51	4

	CEL	LEO	DEP	SAM	OVI	UNI
Celta de Vigo		8–0	2–1	7–1	7–2	11–1
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa	3–2		3–2	2–1	3–3	6–1
Deportivo de La Coruña	3–3	6–1		4–0	2–0	6–0
Racing de Sama	1–5	3–1	0–4		1–5	5–4
Real Oviedo	4–2	5–3	4–0	7–0		6–0
Real Unión Deportiva	1–8	2–1	1–4	4–1	1–3

Group II edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
CD Alavés	10	5	4	1	17	9	14
Real Madrid	10	6	2	2	23	17	14
Racing de Santander	10	6	1	3	34	13	13
Athletic Bilbao	10	6	1	3	26	13	13
Gimnástica de Torrelavega	10	1	2	7	8	38	4
Athletic de Madrid	10	1	0	9	12	30	2

	ATH	ATM	ALA	GIM	RAC	RMA
Athletic Bilbao		3–1	0–0	8–0	3–1	3–1
Athletic de Madrid	2–4		1–3	3–2	1–4	0–1
CD Alavés	2–0	2–1		3–0	2–1	0–1
Gimnástica de Torrelavega	1–3	2–1	0–0		0–5	2–2
Racing de Santander	2–0	6–2	2–2	7–0		4–0
Real Madrid	3–2	3–0	3–3	6–1	3–2

Group III edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
FC Barcelona	10	7	2	1	35	18	16
Real Sociedad	10	8	0	2	31	17	16
Real Unión	10	7	1	2	36	17	15
CD Europa	10	3	1	6	22	21	7
Iberia SC	10	3	0	7	16	28	6
Patria Aragón	10	0	0	10	7	46	0

	EUR	FCB	IBE	PAT	RSO	RUN
CD Europa		2–3	7–0	4–2	0–1	0–3
FC Barcelona	2–2		4–1	7–0	4–1	4–4
Iberia SC	2–1	0–1		4–1	1–3	3–4
CD Patria Aragón	2–3	1–3	0–3		0–3	0–7
Real Sociedad	4–2	5–4	5–1	4–1		4–1
Real Unión	2–1	2–3	2–1	8–0	3–1

Group IV edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Real Murcia	10	7	1	2	23	14	15
Valencia FC	10	5	2	3	21	20	12
Cartagena FC	10	4	2	4	18	17	10
Sevilla FC	10	3	3	4	16	14	9
Real Betis	10	3	3	4	20	20	9
Levante FC	10	2	1	7	13	26	5

	CAR	LEV	BET	MUR	SEV	VAL
Cartagena FC		4–1	4–2	2–2	1–0	4–0
Levante FC	2–2		0–1	1–3	2–0	1–3
Real Betis	3–0	4–2		1–3	1–1	0–1
Real Murcia	2–1	5–1	3–2		1–2	1–0
Sevilla FC	1–0	0–1	3–3	1–2		7–2
Valencia FC	4–0	4–2	3–3	3–1	1–1

Knockout stage edit

Quarterfinals edit

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Barcelona	9–5	Real Oviedo	7–3	2–2
Real Murcia	2–5	CD Alavés	1–2	1–3
RC Celta de Vigo	2–4	Real Sociedad	2–1	0–3
Real Madrid	3–4	Valencia FC	2–2	1–2

Semifinals edit

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Sociedad	9–3	Valencia FC	7–0	2–3
FC Barcelona	8–0	CD Alavés	3–0	5–0

Final edit

20 May 1928

16:30 CET

FC Barcelona	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Real Sociedad
Samitier 53'		Mariscal 83'

El Sardinero, Santander

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Pedro Vallana

Replay

22 May 1928

11:30 CET

FC Barcelona	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Real Sociedad
Piera 69'		Kiriki 32'

El Sardinero, Santander

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Pedro Escartín

Second replay

29 June 1928

17:00 CET

FC Barcelona	3–1	Real Sociedad
Samitier 8' Arocha 21' Josep Sastre 25'		Zaldúa 16' (pen.)

El Sardinero, Santander

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Pablo Saracho

Copa del Rey 1928 Winners
FC Barcelona 8th title

References edit

^ "Copa del Rey / Spanish Cup 1928". linguasport.com. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^ "Spain – Cup 1928". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

[1] "Copa del Rey / Spanish Cup 1928". linguasport.com. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

[2] "Spain – Cup 1928". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 March 2023.

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