1902 Copa de la Coronación

1902 Copa de la Coronación
	The trophy on display in the Athletic Bilbao museum
Country	Spain
Teams	5
Champions	Bizcaya
Runners-up	FC Barcelona
Matches played	5
Goals scored	27 (5.4 per match)
	1903 →

The 1902 Copa de la Coronación was a football competition in honour of the coronation of Alfonso XIII of Spain. It was an unofficial competition, the Royal Spanish Football Federation do not recognize it as the first season of the Copa del Rey, which began the following year.^[1]

The competition started on 13 May 1902, and concluded on 16 May 1902, with the Final, held at the Hipódromo in Madrid, in which Bizcaya lifted the trophy.

The competition was thought up after Carlos Padrós, later president of Madrid FC, suggested a football competition to celebrate the coronation of Alfonso XIII. Four other teams joined Madrid for the first competition: FC Barcelona, Club Español de Foot-Ball, Bizcaya (a combination of Athletic Club and Bilbao Football Club [es]) and New Foot-Ball Club. The competition featured the first recorded game between FC Barcelona and Madrid FC, with the former emerging 3–1 winners. Bizcaya eventually beat FC Barcelona in the final.

Quarterfinals[]

13 May 1902

Bizcaya	5–1	Club Español
Juan Astorquia Walter Evans William Dyer -' (pen.) Walter Evans Walter Evans		Ponz

Hipódromo, Madrid

Referee:

Morris

^[2]

Semifinals[]

13 May 1902

FC Barcelona	3–1	Madrid FC
[de] Udo Steinberg Joan Gamper -' (pen.)		Arthur Johnson

Hipódromo, Madrid

Referee:

Arana

^[3]

14 May 1902

Bizcaya	8–1	New Foot-Ball Club
Walter Evans Walter Evans Armand Cazeaux William Dyer William Dyer William Dyer William Dyer Juan Astorquia		Montojo

Hipódromo, Madrid

Referee:

Morris

^[4]

Final[]

15 May 1902

Bizcaya	2–1	FC Barcelona
Juan Astorquia 10' Armand Cazeaux 20'		Udo Steinberg 75'

Hipódromo, Madrid

Referee:

Carlos Padrós

^[5]

Copa de la Coronación 1902 Winners
Bizcaya 1st Title

Consolation Trophy / Copa de la Gran Peña[]

Bizcaya did not participate because they had nothing to console, being champions of Copa de la Coronación.
FC Barcelona declined to participate because their players had to return to their occupations.
New Foot-Ball Club declined to participate due to the very poor level showed in the Copa de la Coronación.

Thus, the Gran Peña Cup was played as a single match between Madrid FC and Club Español. ^[6]

16 May 1902

Madrid FC	3–2	Club Español
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Hipódromo, Madrid

Referee: ?

References[]

^ "La FEF no reconocerá al Barça la Liga del año 37" [The FEF will not recognize Barça's League in 1937]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 3 April 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
^ "Official Athletic Club Website".
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Official Athletic Club Website".
^ "Linguasport - Spanish Cup (F)".
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[1] "La FEF no reconocerá al Barça la Liga del año 37" [The FEF will not recognize Barça's League in 1937]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 3 April 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2010.

[2] "Official Athletic Club Website".

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Official Athletic Club Website".

[5] "Linguasport - Spanish Cup (F)".

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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