The draw for the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Cup that was held this Friday in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas (Madrid) produced a Madrid CFF – FC Barcelona, a Real Madrid – Real Sociedad, a Cacereño – Atlético de Madrid and a Levante UD – Granada. This round of the tournament, in which Barça defends its title, is held in a single match between February 11 and 13. Only the semi-finals are played round-trip.
The blaugranas, who have still won all their games this year in Spain and lead the F League with full victories and 69 goals for and only 7 against, will travel to the country’s capital to face Madrid CFF, right now in the ninth position in the table. In the league competition, Barça gave them a resounding 1-8 scoreline a little over three months ago despite the fact that the match went into half-time with the locals a goal ahead.
Real Madrid, thanks to the signings and the recovery of the Scottish Caroline Weir, will face Real Sociedad at the Alfredo di Stéfano. The white ones and the blue whitewhose League match was postponed due to the wind on November 24 in San Sebastián – and has not yet been played -, will also meet next Thursday in the semi-finals of the Spanish Super Cup, which will be played at the Butarque stadium (Leganés). The San Sebastian team is fighting with Athletic and Atlético for third place in the league competition, which this year gives access to the Champions League. In second position is precisely the team led by Alberto Toril, who has already
Atlético, the third place in League F, has been paired with Cacereño, the only team from the First Federation and, therefore, the only one that was guaranteed to play at its home stadium. The Extremadurans already eliminated two rivals from the highest category of Spanish football in the two previous rounds, Athletic (2-1) and Valencia (1-0).
The fourth round of the Cup pits Levante, a historic women’s football team that is now struggling through the second-to-last position in League F, with Granada, the seventh-placed team, according to the draw that was held this afternoon at the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).
This season’s final – which will be held between May 2 and 4 – still does not have a venue, unlike the Copa del Rey, which has been known for almost two years to be held at the La Cartuja stadium. of Seville, which has hosted the title match of the men’s tournament since 2020 – this will be the sixth edition.
The format of the Cup, with single-match qualifying rounds until the semi-finals that lead to more surprises, has meant that in the men’s category there have been five different champions in the last five years (Athletic, Real Madrid, Betis, Barça and Real Sociedad), but in the women’s modality, the azulgranas, who dominate with an iron fist in Spain, have won all the cup titles since the 2019/2020 season with the exception of the 2022/2023 season, when the culés
