The 2015 Copa del Rey Final will be a football match on 30 May 2015 to decide the winner of the 2014–15 Copa del Rey, the 111th edition of the Copa del Rey, Spain's primary football cup.
It will be played between Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, the latter club's home ground.
As Barcelona won the 2014–15 La Liga, Athletic qualify automatically as the cup representative in the 2015 Supercopa de España.
Background

Aymeric Laporte of Athletic and Lionel Messi of Barcelona in the team's league meeting on 13 September 2014
Barcelona have previously played 36 Copa del Rey Finals, a record bettered only by Real Madrid with 39.[1] However, Barcelona have won the competition a record 26 times.[1] Their most recent appearance in the final was the previous year's edition, in which they lost 1–2 to Real Madrid at Mestalla in Valencia.[1] Their most recent win was in 2012, beating Athletic Bilbao 3–0 at the Vicente Calderón Stadium in Madrid.[1] Their only previous final at the Camp Nou was a victory in 1963.[2]
Athletic Bilbao have previously played in 35 finals, winning 23, with only Barcelona winning more.[1] Their most recent final was in 2012, and their most recent victory in the tournament was in 1984, beating Barcelona 1–0 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.[1]
Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao have played each other in seven previous finals of the tournament. Barcelona won in 1920, 1942, 1953, 2009 and 2012, and Athletic Bilbao won in 1932 and 1984.[1]
The two teams played each other twice during the 2014–15 La Liga season. In the first instance, at Camp Nou on 13 September 2014, Barcelona won 2–0 with two goals from Neymar in the last 11 minutes of the game.[3] On 8 February 2015 at Athletic Bilbao's San Mamés Stadium, Barcelona won 5–2. Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez gave them a 2–0 half-time lead. Four goals came between the 59th and 66th minutes: Mikel Rico scored for Athletic, his teammate Óscar de Marcos caused an own goal, Neymar achieved a fourth for Barcelona and Aritz Aduriz a second for Athletic. Later on in the game, Xabier Etxeita was sent off for the hosts and Pedro netted a fifth for the visitors.[
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