How many times have Real Madrid and Barcelona met in the Copa del Rey final? How many titles have they won?
Published 24/04/2025 at 19:42 GMT+1
Football fans will be treated to an extra El Clasico this season, with Real Madrid and Barcelona set to go head-to-head in the final of the Copa del Rey. Ahead of what is sure to be another mouth-watering encounter, we felt the time was right to look back at their past meetings and see how many Copa del Rey crowns the two had won since the competition started in 1903.
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Bitter rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona will collide in the final of the Copa del Rey on Saturday night.
El Clasico is always one of the most highly-anticipated games of any season, and with a trophy on the line, there is even more to play for this time around.
The two clubs may have dominated Spanish football for decades, but meetings between them in the country's most famous cup competition have been surprisingly rare.
With that in mind, we thought the time was right to look back at their previous encounters.
How many times have Real and Barca met in Copa final?
The Copa del Rey was first held in 1903, and Barcelona and Real Madrid have won a combined 52 times since then, if you include this season.
Barcelona have won 31 while Madrid have won 20 ahead of this year's final.
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However, the two have only met in the final of the competition on seven occasions in the competition's 122-year history.
The clubs first met in the climax of the Copa del Rey in 1936, with Los Blancos running out 2-1 winners over their Catalonian rivals in the last final before the start of the Spanish Civil War.
Barca would have to wait 32 years for revenge, and it came at the end of the 1967-68 season, with Madrid falling to a 1-0 defeat at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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It would be nine years before their next meeting in a Copa del Rey final as Madrid stormed to a 4-0 triumph during the 1973–74 season.
However, Barca responded with a 2-1 win in the 1982–83 season and a 2-0 victory to cap the 1989–90 campaign.
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The two clubs would have to wait 21 years for the next El Clasico final of the Copa del Rey, but since then Madrid have been in control.
Los Blancos beat Barca 1-0 during the 2010-11 season, and they followed that up with a 2-1 victory in 2014.
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