Copa Federación de España (Basque tournament)

The Basque Country tournament is an annual football competition held in Spain which serves as the preliminary round of the Copa Federación de España (Copa RFEF) in the Basque Country (Euskadi) region. Organised by the Basque Football Federation, the participating clubs in the tournament are drawn from the Tercera División (Group 4), as well as local clubs in the Segunda División B who have not qualified for the season's Copa del Rey, including reserve teams and farm teams. Not all teams eligible take part each year.

As the Copa RFEF is for lower division clubs, the top sides in the region such as Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad have never entered the main competition or the qualifying phase. However, Deportivo Alavés have taken part in the national phase, and their B-team won the Basque tournament three years in a row from 2015.

Format

The regional tournament is usually played between July and October, the format depends on the number of registered teams, and the winner receives a €3,000 prize.

The champion qualifies to the National phase of the Copa RFEF. At that point, losing teams from the first round of the Copa del Rey, usually including at least one Basque club, are also invited to the Copa RFEF, but often they decline to participate in order to concentrate on the league.

The opening nationwide rounds pair entrants from either the same autonomous community or one nearby (such as Navarre or Cantabria), so it is common for the Basque teams to eliminate each other.

History

The most successful Basque qualifier to the national phase was Real Unión, who won the entire competition in 2015, defeating CD Castellón 4–0 on aggregate.[1]

SD Lemona were finalists in 2011 and 2012, with the latter event producing a dramatic outcome: having lost the first leg away to CD Binissalem by a 5–0 score, Lemona turned the tie on its head at home, winning 6–1. They lost on away goals, being unable to add to their tally in the last 15 minutes of the match.[2] Within a few months of the final, the club had dissolved due to financial problems. Lemona also have the best overall record in the qualifying tournament, winning five times in 16 years.

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Season Winner Runner-up Progress Notes
1993–94 Amurrio First round
1994–95 Aurrerá Quarter-final
1995–96 Lemona First round
1996–97 Lemona First round
1997–98 Elgoibar Round of 16
1998–99 Real Unión Round of 16
1999–2000 Lemona Preliminary round
2000–01 Amurrio Preliminary round
2001–02 Beasain[lower-alpha 1] Round of 16
2002–03 Aurrerá Round of 16
2003–04[4] Amurrio Sestao Round of 16 Eliminated Zalla
2004–05[5] Aurrerá N/A[lower-alpha 2] Qualifying round
2005–06[6] Indautxu Aurrerá Round of 16
2006–07[7] Amurrio Lemona Round of 16 Eliminated Oyonesa[lower-alpha 3]
2007–08[8] Amorebieta Zarautz Round of 32
2008–09[9] Leioa Gernika Qualifying round
2009–10[10] Barakaldo Portugalete Semi-finals Eliminated Lemona and Alavés
2010–11[11] Lemona Zalla Runners-up
2011–12[12] Lemona Zalla Runners-up[2] Eliminated Amorebieta
2012–13[13] Zalla Aurrerá Round of 32 Zalla eliminated by CD Laudio
2013–14[14] Balmaseda Alavés B Semi-finals Eliminated Real Unión
2014–15[15] Real Unión Gernika Winners[1] Eliminated Amorebieta
2015–16[16] Alavés B Berio Round of 32
2016–17[17] Alavés B Zalla Round of 16 Alavés B eliminated by Real Unión[18]
2017–18[19] Alavés B[20] Getxo Round of 32
2018–19 Real Unión[21] Zamudio Quarter-final[22] Eliminated Cultural Durango

Notes
  1. Beasain played in the 2001–02 Copa del Rey so would have entered the Copa Federación by that route, but it appears that no other Basque teams took part in the national phase.[3]
  2. Aurrerá were the only team to enter the Basque autonomous phase.
  3. Oyonesa is a team which is based in the Basque Country (Oion) but plays in the Riojan Tercera section and was the qualifier from the tournament in that region.

Champions

Editions with only one team registered not included in this ranking.

Teams Winners Runners-up Winning years
Lemona511995–96, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2010–11, 2011–12
Amurrio401993–94, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2006–07
Alavés B312015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
Real Unión301998–99, 2014–15, 2018–19
Aurrerá Vitoria221994–95, 2002–03
Zalla132012–13
Amorebieta102007–08
Barakaldo102009–10
Leioa102008–09
Indautxu102005–06
Balmaseda102013–14
Leioa102008–09
Beasain102001–02
Elgoibar101997–98
Gernika02–
Sestao01–
Portugalete01–
Zarautz01–
Berio01–
Getxo01–
Zamudio01–

    Previous competitions

    From 1930 until 1987, Biscay and Gipuzkoa operated separate provincial competitions for their non-professional clubs, with the winners of each qualifying for the national Campeonato de Aficionados, the predecessor to the Copa Federación.[23] The most successful team in Biscay was Erandio with 13 wins, far ahead of Indautxu on 6, while in Gipuzkoa Real Unión, CD Logroñés and Mondragón won four titles apiece.[24]

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    2. "6-1: El Binissalem hizo valer con mucho sufrimiento la goleada de la ida" [6-1: Binissalem made the most of the goal fest in the first leg]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 19 April 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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    21. "Históricos: Copa RFEF Fase Autonómica Final 2018/2019" [Historical: RFEF Cup Autonomic Phase Final 2018/2019] (in Spanish). Basque Football Federation (FVF/EFF). Retrieved 18 March 2019.
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    23. Spain - Amateur Champions (Campeonato de España Amateur) 1930-1987, RSSSF, 20 May 2020
    24. Spain - Campeonato  Amateur de Vizcaya y Guipúzcoa 1930-1987, RSSSF, 2 November 2018
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