11 May 2019

Confirmed changes on couple of Spanish Cup events

At the last Monday in April, the Spanish football federation have made some format changes of its two national Cup tournaments.
All teams who are going to enter Copa del Rey from 2019-2020 season will have to be very cautious as only one single game is going to be played, however this rule does not apply for semi-finals. Up until now home and away matches were staged including the finals. This modification means that fewer duels are going to be played, and also the hosts will be clubs from the lower category.
The second shift concerns the Super Cup. We were used to watch this competition to be played during the championship, but from next season this will be moved in January. Also four teams are going to participate at the event: the top two teams from the championship plus the finalists from the Cup. Because all equations are now known from 08 until 12 January 2020 at the new, altered Super Cup mini tournament will appear: Barcelona, Valencia, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid. As possible host is mentioned Saudi Arabia, where the federation wants to stage this competition in the next 6 years, while the proposal costs 30 million euros per season.
For both changing formats the LaLiga clubs are adamantly against it, especially their voices are very high for the second case (playing the national event outside its borders).

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