Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will face each other this Saturday, April 26, at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville for the 2025 Copa del Rey final. Want to know the kickoff time in your country? Let me tell you, you’ve come to the right place. Here, I’ll show you the schedules and broadcast channels for El Clásico.
Two of the giants of world football, Barcelona and Real Madrid, once again face off in a final, this time in Seville, in the Copa del Rey, a competition they haven’t played since 2014. This year, the Copa del Rey is a derby to boost Hansi Flick’s project or revive Carlo Ancelotti’s.
Based on their performance, momentum, and past season precedents—victories at the Santiago Bernabéu (0-4) and in the Spanish Super Cup final (2-5)—Barcelona arrives in the best position, but a derby is always unpredictable and transcends the moments in which each team arrives. A game of tosses and tails in which emotional elements are of little use and which are decided by the performance of its biggest stars, in a match also marked by physical exhaustion after a hellish season.
Barcelona arrives at the final with all fronts open. They’re top of LaLiga, qualified for the Champions League semi-finals—they face Inter Milan starting next week—and have the Cup title in red to keep them in the hunt for everything.
Real Madrid are walking on a razor’s edge. With no room for error in LaLiga, four points behind their eternal rivals and forced to win on May 11 at Montjuic, they’re eliminated from the Champions League in the quarter-finals after a painful double encounter against Arsenal, and they’re eyeing the Copa del Rey as the trophy that will lift them off.
This will be the eighth meeting in a cup final between the two biggest clubs. Real Madrid has dominated the individual record by a 4-3 scoreline since Gareth Bale broke the deadlock in the last final in 2014. However, the Copa del Rey champions are Barça, with 31 titles to Real Madrid’s 20.
The match will be televised in Spain on Movistar Plus, M+ Copa del Rey, La 1 de TVE, RTVE Play, and TV3.
In the United States, the FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid derby will be broadcast on ESPN Plus (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish).
Premier Sports will broadcast the Copa del Rey final in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
L’Equipe and Molotov in France; DAZN in Germany; and Telelombardia in Italy.
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