Basketball King's Cup

The Spanish Basketball Championship–His Majesty the King's Cup, known simply as the Copa del Rey or The Cup, is a national basketball competition, organized annually by the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) and played by the eight best clubs in Spain.

In its beginnings it was organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) and the winning team obtained the right to participate in the next edition of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Currently, the cup tournament does not qualify for any European competition.

The tournament began to be held under the name of the Spanish Championship, its first edition being held in Madrid in 1933, becoming the first basketball competition that pitted clubs at a national level in the country, since the National League was not created until the 1956-1957 season, 24 years later.

Currently it is played through single-game playoffs between the eight classified teams (known as the final eight), these being the seven best teams in the ACB League at the end of the first round together with the best team in the city hostess. If the location designated for this purpose did not have a representative in the highest division of the national league, then its place would be occupied by the eighth best ranked.

The 1989 and 1993 editions were held in a multi-venue format, sponsored by the Junta de Galicia. The quarterfinals in 1989 were held in Santiago de Compostela, Orense and Vigo (two games); the semifinals in Lugo and Ferrol and the final in La Coruña. In 1993 the quarterfinals in Orense, Vigo, Lugo and Ferrol and the semifinals and final in La Coruña. In addition, in 1994, the final phase of the Copa del Rey was also played in several venues: two quarterfinals were held in Córdoba, one in Málaga and one in Seville. The semifinals and final were played on March 5 and 6 in Seville.

The first winner of the competition was the currently extinct Rayo Club de Madrid. The most successful team, with 28 titles, is Real Madrid. The current champion is Unicaja.

History

The historical and generic name of the competition is «Campeonato de España», and for this reason the winning team is considered the champion of Spain; However, the official name of the competition has changed over the years depending on the Spanish head of state, who has awarded the trophy since the first edition. Thus, it has had the following denominations:

• Spanish Cup Championship (1933-1936).
• Championship of Spain–Copa of His Excellency the Most General (1940-1976).
• Spain–Copa Championship of His Majesty the King (1976-1983).
• Cup of His Majesty the King–ACB (1983 onwards).

First Editions (1933-36)

The first edition of the Copa del Rey —formerly the Spanish Cup or Spanish Basketball Championship— began on October 15, 1933 under the joint organization of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) and the Spanish Basketball Confederation (CEB).

Initially, its first edition was open to all regional champions but for various economic and professional reasons, since professionalism had not yet reached this sport in the country, the competition was limited to the champions and runners-up of Catalonia and Castilla —under its name of the Center region—. Thus, the four competing teams were Juventus A. C. from Sabadell, Iluro Bastek-Ball Club from Mataró, Madrid Basket-Ball and Rayo Club from Madrid.

After the semifinals, the two teams from Madrid played the first final on October 29, overcoming the adverse results of the first leg. The null regulation on the type of regulatory pavement and a questionable arbitration meant that the Catalan squads were overwhelmed and fell eliminated. prevail by 21-11.

The second edition should have been held in 1934, but it did not take place until 1935, since the Catalan teams boycotted it due to the events that occurred the previous season. This championship was organized exclusively by the FEB and S.S. Patrie beat Rayo Club 23-19 at the Montjuïc Municipal Park in Barcelona.

Like the rest of the national sports competitions in Spain, the competition was suspended in 1936 due to the Civil War, to resume again under a new name at the end of it. Due to the same circumstance, it was not played in 1934 either. The name by which it was known until 1976 was the Copa del Generalísimo, to become the Copa del Rey or Copa de His Majesty the King from 1977 after the restoration of the monarchy. and continue uninterruptedly until today.

For the second edition held in 1935 in Barcelona, two clubs from the Levante region were added to the competition, finishing as penultimate and last classified.

Growth after the Civil War

It was not until its resumption after the Civil War and with the change of name when it acquired a more national character when the number of participating teams increased to eight after the incorporation of the Aragon region, becoming disputed from the qualifying round of quarterfinals, being the usual format until 1942 —date of the first great growth—. This consisted of an increase to sixteen participants incorporating clubs from Murcia, Extremadura, Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and the Balearic Islands; reaching a maximum limit of twenty-four participants in the following edition.

In these first years of the tournament under Franco's government, the Catalan clubs were devastated, as they won the first 11 editions of the Copa del Generalísimo consecutively, with the main domain being the basketball section of the Barcelona Football Club, which won 6 titles in this period, followed by Club Deportivo Layetano, with 2, and Club Baloncesto Hospitalet, the basketball section of the Real Club Deportivo Español, and Juventud de Badalona, with one title each. Among them, it was the C. B. Hospitalet team that won the first championship (1939-1940 season).

The Real Madrid basketball section had to wait until 1951 to make its debut in the list of competition winners, beginning its dominance since then, having played 48 finals until 2019 and won 27 of them.

Oldest Competition

For half a century, the League has been and is the highest competition that supports elite basketball. However, the current Copa del Rey is the oldest competition, with the longest run and the first that proclaimed the best Spanish team.

This competition was born under the name of the Spanish Championship and its first edition was held in Madrid in 1933. Since that first basketball game, 69 have been played until 2005 and it only stopped being played during the three years that the Civil War lasted, becoming a clear link between the first pioneers and today.

Political vicissitudes have left their mark on the name of the competition. It kept its initial name until 1936, but the fifth edition held in 1940 would be renamed Copa del Generalísimo, which it would keep until 1976. With the advent of the Monarchy, the dean competition of Spanish basketball became the Copa del Rey.

From 1933 to 1956, the Cup was the main exponent of the progress of Spanish basketball. The slow geographical expansion of the sport of the basket marked the incorporation of new provinces to the two classic poles of basketball knowledge such as Barcelona and Madrid.

At the beginning of the 1940s, a trend was established in the sense that the pioneering teams (Laietà, Patrie, Rayo, etc...) were giving way to the classic squads that would end up forming the nucleus of teams who played the first Leagues under the format of all against all that we know now.

This replacement of pioneers by classics was sparked by an incipient and covert professionalism, a word that now evokes million-dollar contracts but, for example, in 1941 had another meaning. El Español, winner of the Copa del Generalísimo that year, saw its players penalized with four game suspensions for the following edition for having each received a prize raincoat. This penalty makes people smile from the current way of looking at things, but it sparked a great deal of controversy at the time and was even heavily criticized because it marked a trend that would not be abandoned: pay for playing. Not all the teams were able to face this change in mentality but some of the most competitive would enter this path to grow and gain potential.

The classics enter the scene

During the 1940s, classic teams that have reached the present day such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Joventut, Estudiantes and Español entered the fray. Cities like Valencia, Zaragoza, Huesca, Gijón or La Laguna began to be noticed in the Cup but throughout these ten years the dominance of Catalan basketball was absolute. From 1940 to 1951 the Cup Champion titles were distributed as follows: Hospitalet (1) another for Spanish (1), one for Joventut, two for Laietà and five for Barcelona.

During the 1945-46 season, the Cup had a format that sought to turn it into a league. This edition was a complete success with the public and in the following edition they took a step forward, advancing to the league but the idea was not operational and they returned to the old knockout format. There were still ten years to go before the league, as we know it now, would get going.

Trend reversal

In 1948, Joventut de Badalona won its first title, but the first foreign player who began to leave his mark entered the Spanish competitive scene. It was the Filipino Kaimo, an athlete with a prodigious individual technique and who anticipated the current dribbling basketball and change of pace to overwhelm the opponent, making the passing game obsolete. The next foreign contribution would come from Puerto Rico with Fredy Borrás, introducer of the jump shot, and Galíndez. Real Madrid would win their first national title with them in the final played in San Sebastián, against FC Barcelona, in 1951.

In 1949, a league format was introduced to decide the title that F. C. Barcelona would win. However, this competition system was not convincing, so it would return to the old knockout format. From 1951 until the beginning of the first National League, Real Madrid and Joventut shared the titles of Champion of Spain (three for Madrid, two for Penya) but Madrid was also beginning to lay the foundations of its overwhelming dominance thanks to his successful transfer policy, the most notable being that of Joaquín Hernández, perhaps the best Spanish player of the time. At the end of the 1955-56 season, Raimundo Saporta presented the league project, which would be launched in the 1956-57 season. The League went on to designate the best team but this is another story.

The White Age

The advent of the new league competition marked the beginning of an era of overwhelming dominance of an intractable Real Madrid in domestic competitions and which was beginning to carve out a brilliant career in Europe. The white team dominated with 15 titles between 1956 and 1977 and filled the history of our basketball with legendary names. The sweetest moment came for Real Madrid under the tutelage of Pedro Ferrándiz, who over the course of 16 seasons would dominate the League and the Cup at will, as well as manage to reign in Europe as well.

Before reaching the ACB era, F.C. Barcelona also burst into force, achieving six consecutive titles before the 1983-84 season, a new competition system was implemented that concentrated the teams in a single venue.

The Cup in the ACB stage

The Cup distinguished the best Spanish team of the season, but with the creation of the National League, it was this last competition that took on the greatest role, leaving the Cup relegated to being a trophy played at the end of the season. It is not that he lost interest but his role was clearly less.

When the organization of the highest basketball category came under the supervision of the ACB, the Cup was also the subject of a remodeling that has led it to be a reference competition throughout the world. The first edition held in Zaragoza in the 1983-84 season marked the beginning of this trend, which we can summarize in an unprecedented media resonance and the opening of the range of possibilities of victory to many teams. The new concentration format with a final to four in the middle of the season was the hallmark of this revitalized Cup. The triumph of CAI Zaragoza really opened a new era and in three seasons it went to the current format with the concentration of eight teams, a competition system that will add 22 editions this season in Vitoria.

If in previous times one must speak of the dominance exercised by Real Madrid and Barcelona, punctuated by the incursions of Joventut and Estudiantes, the Cup from the organization of the ACB has become a very expensive and precious trophy to obtain. It has not only been open to the teams with the greatest potential such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, but it has been a competition where surprise has been the usual ingredient. The Cup titles have also served to mark the frank emergence of new dominant teams such as Tau Cerámica, Unicaja and Pamesa Valencia, classics such as DKV Joventut or MMT Estudiantes and reward the good work of modest teams such as Ricoh Manresa.

Parallel to the sporting success, the media impact of the Cup has not stopped growing season after season. There is full consensus about the excellence in the organization that the venues achieve in each edition and the competition model has been exported to other countries and sports. The Copa del Rey marks one of the high points of the season and concentrates in a long weekend an interest that reaches world level.

History

For a better detail of each edition see Basket King Cup History

Ed.	Season	Champion	Res.	Subfield	Place	Note(s)
Copa de España
1. a	1933-34	Ray Club	21-11	Madrid Basket-Ball	Madrid	First official championship
2. a	1934–35	S. S. Patrie	23-19	Ray Club	Barcelona	Extended Tournament to 6 teams
3. a	1935–36	Ray Club (2.o)	23–20	S. S. Patrie	Madrid
Spain-Copa Championship of the Generalísimo
4. a	1939–40	C. B. L'Hospitalet	20-17	B. C. Athletic de Gràcia	Barcelona	Extended Tournament to 8 teams
5. a	1940-41	R. C. D. Spanish	35–20	C. B. L'Hospitalet	Madrid
6. a	1941-42	C. D. Layetano	30–28	C. F. Barcelona	Zaragoza	Tournament reduced to 4 teams
7. a	1942-43	C. F. Barcelona	27-25	C. D. Layetano	Palma de Mallorca
8. a	1943–44	C. D. Layetano (2.o)	32–18	Real Madrid (2.o)	Vigo
9. a	1944–45	C. F. Barcelona	37-34	C. D. Layetano (2.o)	Barcelona
10. a	1945–46	C. F. Barcelona	44–35	U. D. Montgat	Barcelona
11. a	1946–47	C. F. Barcelona	39-25	C. B. Canarias de Madrid	Zaragoza	First property trophy
12. a	1947-48	Youth of Badalona	41–32	Real Madrid (3.o)	Burgos
13. a	1948-49	C. F. Barcelona	Liguilla	Real Madrid (4.o)	Madrid	Tournament played in league format
14. a	1949-50	C. F. Barcelona	46–39	Youth of Badalona	Barcelona
15. a	1950–51	Real Madrid	47-36	C. F. Barcelona (2.o)	San Sebastián
16. a	1951–52	Real Madrid	43-41	Youth of Badalona (2.o)	Alicante
17. a	1952–53	Youth of Badalona	41–39	Real Madrid (5.o)	Valladolid
18. a	1953–54	Real Madrid	56-41	Youth of Badalona (3.o)	Madrid
19. a	1954–55	Youth of Badalona	59-44	Real Madrid (6.o)	Barcelona
20. a	1955–56	Real Madrid	59-55	C. B. Montcada	Madrid
21. a	1958-57	Real Madrid	54–50	C. B. Montcada (2.o)	Vigo	Second property trophy
22. a	1957–58	Youth of Badalona	74–69	Real Madrid (7o)	Zaragoza	Extended Tournament to 8 teams
23. a	1958–59	C. F. Barcelona	50–36	C. B. Montcada (3.o)	Barcelona
24. a	1959–60	Real Madrid	76–64	Hesperia de Madrid	Madrid	Final between teams of the same club
25. a	1960–61	Real Madrid	76-51	C. F. Barcelona (3.o)	Bilbao	Extended Tournament to 6 teams
26. a	1961–62	Real Madrid	80-66	C. B. Students	Barcelona	Third property trophy granted. Extended Tournament to 8 teams
27. a	1962–63	C. B. Students	94–90	Real Madrid (8.o)	San Sebastián
28. a	1963–64	Picadero J. C.	63–51	C. B. Montcada (4.o)	Lugo	Tournament reduced to 7 equipment
29. a	1964–65	Real Madrid	102–82	R. C. N. Tenerife	Salamanca	Extended Tournament to 8 teams
30. a	1965–66	Real Madrid	62–61	Youth of Badalona (4.o)	Tarrasa	Tournament reduced to 4 teams
31. a	1966-67	Real Madrid	85–80	S. D. Kas Vitoria	Vitoria	Fourth property trophy
32. a	1967–68	Picadero J. C. (2.o)	58–55	Youth of Badalona (5.o)	Gijón
33. a	1968–69	Youth of Badalona	82-81	Real Madrid (9th)	Orense
34. a	1969-70	Real Madrid	102–90	Youth of Badalona (6.o)	León
35. a	1970-71	Real Madrid	72–63	Youth of Badalona (7o)	Pamplona
36. a	1971-72	Real Madrid	92-77	Youth of Badalona (8.o)	The Coruña	Fifth trophy on property awarded
37. a	1972–73	Real Madrid	126–87	C. B. Students (2.o)	Valencia	Greater advantage in a final
38. a	1973-74	Real Madrid	87–85	Youth Badalona (9th)	Alicante
39. a	1974–75	Real Madrid	114–85	C. B. Students (3.o)	Jaén	Sixth and last trophy on property granted. Record of consecutive championships
40. a	1975-76	Youth Badalona	99-88	Real Madrid (10th)	Cartagena
Spanish-Copa del Rey Championship
41. a	1976-77	Real Madrid	97–71	F. C. Barcelona (4.o)	Palma de Mallorca
42. a	1977-78	F. C. Barcelona	103–96	Real Madrid (11th)	Zaragoza	Consequential endings
43. a	1978-79	F. C. Barcelona	130-113	C. B. Tempus	Pamplona	Greater annotation in a final
44. a	1979–80	F. C. Barcelona	92-83	Bàsquet Manresa	The Ferrol
45. a	1980-81	F. C. Barcelona	106–90	Real Madrid (12.o)	Almería
46. a	1981–82	F. C. Barcelona	110–108	Real Madrid (13.o)	Badajoz
47. a	1982-83	F. C. Barcelona	125–93	C. B. Inmobanco (2.o)	Palencia	Matched consecutive championships
Copa del Rey ACB
48. a	1983-84	C. B. Zaragoza	81–78	F. C. Barcelona (5.o)	Zaragoza	ACB relegates FEB as an organizer
49. a	1984-85	Real Madrid	90-76	Joventut Badalona (10th)	Badalona
50. a	1985–86	Real Madrid	87–79	Joventut Badalona (11th)	Barcelona
51. a	1986-87	F. C. Barcelona	110-102	Joventut Badalona (12.o)	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Extended Tournament to 8 teams
52. a	1987-88	F. C. Barcelona	84–83	Real Madrid (14.o)	Valladolid
53. a	1988-89	Real Madrid	85-81	F. C. Barcelona (6.o)	The Coruña
54. a	1989–90	C. B. Zaragoza (2.o)	76–69	Joventut Badalona (13.o)	Las Palmas	The MVP is installed
55. a	1990-91	F. C. Barcelona	67–65	C. B. Students (4.o)	Zaragoza
56. a	1991-92	C. B. Students	61–56	C. B. Zaragoza	Grenada
57. a	1992-93	Real Madrid	74–71	Joventut Badalona (14.o)	The Coruña
58. a	1993-94	F. C. Barcelona	86-75	Saski Baskonia	Sevilla
59. a	1994–95	Saski Baskonia	88–80	C. B. Zaragoza (2.o)	Grenada
60. a	1995–96	Bàsquet Manresa	94–92	F. C. Barcelona (7o)	Murcia
61. a	1996-97	Joventut Badalona	79-71	Caceres C. B.	León
62. a	1997-98	Valencia B. C.	89-75	Joventut Badalona (15.o)	Valladolid
63. a	1998–99	Saski Baskonia	70–61	C. B. Sevilla	Valencia
64. a	1999–00	C. B. Students (3.o)	73–63	Valencia B. C.	Vitoria
65. a	2000-01	F. C. Barcelona	80-77	Real Madrid (15.o)	Malaga
66. a	2001–02	Saski Baskonia	85–83	F. C. Barcelona (8.o)	Vitoria
67. a	2002-03	F. C. Barcelona	84–78	Saski Baskonia (2.o)	Valencia
68. a	2003-04	Saski Baskonia	81-77	Joventut Badalona (16.o)	Sevilla
69. a	2004-05	C. B. Malaga	80-76	Real Madrid (16.o)	Zaragoza
70. a	2005-06	Saski Baskonia	85–80	Valencia B. C. (2.o)	Madrid
71. a	2006-07	F. C. Barcelona	69-53	Real Madrid (17.o)	Malaga
72. a	2007-08	Joventut Badalona (8.o)	82–80	Saski Baskonia (3.o)	Vitoria
73. a	2008-09	Saski Baskonia (6.o)	100–98	C. B. Malaga	Madrid
74. a	2009-10	F. C. Barcelona	80-61	Real Madrid (18.o)	Bilbao
75. a	2010-11	F. C. Barcelona	68–60	Real Madrid (19.o)	Madrid
76. a	2011-12	Real Madrid	91-74	F. C. Barcelona (9th)	Barcelona
77. a	2012–13	F. C. Barcelona	85–69	Valencia B. C. (3.o)	Vitoria
78. a	2013–14	Real Madrid	77-76	F. C. Barcelona (10th)	Malaga
79. a	2014-15	Real Madrid	77–71	F. C. Barcelona (11th)	Las Palmas
80. a	2015-16	Real Madrid	85-81	C. B. Gran Canaria	The Coruña
81. a	2016-17	Real Madrid	97–95	Valencia B. C. (4.o)	Vitoria
82. a	2017–18	F. C. Barcelona	92–90	Real Madrid (20.o)	Las Palmas
83. a	2018-19	F. C. Barcelona	94–93	Real Madrid (21.o)	Madrid
84. a	2019–20	Real Madrid (28th)	95–68	C. B. Malaga (2.o)	Malaga	Greater advantage in a final ACB
85. a	2020–21	F. C. Barcelona	88–73	Real Madrid (22nd)	Madrid
86. a	2021–22	F. C. Barcelona (27.o)	64-59	Real Madrid (23o)	Madrid
87. a	2022-23	C. B. Malaga (2.o)	83-80	C. B. Canary Islands	Badalona
88. a	2023–24		for dispute

Honours of Prizes

Equipment	Finals	Titles	Last championship	Subcamponatos	Last subfield
Real Madrid	51	28	2019–20	23	2021–22
Club Barcelona	38	27	2021–22	11	2014-15
Club Joventut de Badalona	24	8	2007-08	16	2003-04
Saski Baskonia	9	6	2008-09	3	2007-08
Club Basketball Students	7	3	1999–00	4	1990-91
Laietà Basket Club	4	2	1943–44	2	1944-45
Club Baloncesto Zaragoza	4	2	1989–90	2	1994–95
Club Baloncesto Málaga	4	2	2022-23	2	2019–20
Ray Club	3	2	1935–36	1	1934–35
Picadero Jockey Club	2	2	1967–68	-
Valencia Basket Club	5	1	1997-98	4	2016-17
Club Baloncesto Atlético de Gracia	3	1	1934–35	2	1939–40
Club Bàsquet L'Hospitalet	2	1	1939–40	1	1940-41
Bàsquet Manresa	2	1	1995–96	1	1979–80
Real Club Deportivo Español	1	1	1940-41	-
Club Baloncesto Aismalíbar	4	-		4	1963–64
Club Baloncesto Inmobanco	2	-		2	1982-83
Unió Esportiva Montgat	1	-		1	1945–46
Club Baloncesto Canarias de Madrid	1	-		1	1946–47
Hesperia Sports Club	1	-		1	1959–60
Real Club Náutico de Tenerife	1	-		1	1964–65
Kas Sports Society	1	-		1	1966-67
Cáceres Club Basketball	1	-		1	1996-97
Club Baloncesto Sevilla	1	-		1	1998–99
Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria	1	-		1	2015-16
Club Baloncesto Canarias	1	-		1	2022-23

Cities hosting since 1987 Final Eight

N°	City	Editions
5	Madrid	2006, 2009, 2011, 2019 and 2021
5	Vitoria	2000, 2002, 2008, 2013 and 2017
5	Malaga	2001, 2007, 2014, 2020 and 2024
3	The Coruña	1989, 1993 and 2016
3	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	1990, 2015 and 2018
3	Grenada	1992, 1995 and 2022
2	Sevilla	1994 and 2004
2	Valencia	1999 and 2003
2	Valladolid	1988 and 1998
2	Zaragoza	1991 and 2005
1	Badalona	2023
1	Baracaldo	2010
1	Barcelona	2012
1	León	1997
1	Murcia	1996
1	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	1987

Statistics

For a complete detail see King Cup Statistics.

MVP

The player who has won the most valuable player (MVP) awards in the tournament —a distinction that did not exist until 1990— is the Spanish Rudy Fernández, who managed to be the best defending the shirts of Club Joventut de Badalona and Real Madrid Baloncesto in the 2004, 2008 and 2015 editions.

Historical scorers table

For a complete detail see Maximum scorers of the King's Cup.

The tournament's top scorer is Jordi Villacampa from Tarragona with 491 points in 26 games, followed by Juan Carlos Navarro from Barcelona with 466 and Juan Antonio San Epifanio from Zaragoza with 454. Behind them is Felipe Reyes from Cordoba with 440 points, the aforementioned four being the only players to exceed the 400-point barrier in the history of the competition.

It is also worth noting among the top scorers the Spanish-American Wayne Brabender for being the player with the highest score in the finals of the competition with 262 points, ahead of his compatriot Clifford Luyk and the Spanish-Dominican Chicho Sibilio with 252 and 240 respectively.

The following table reflects the records of which there is evidence since the data did not begin to be counted until the 1983-84 season, the date on which the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) took over the organization of the tournament to the detriment of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB).

Note: Indicated in bold active players in addition to their current team. Records prior to 1983-84 season unknown.

Pos. Player Pts. Part. Prom. Temp. Club * 1 Jordi Villacampa ** 491 26 18.88 1980-97 Club Joventut de Badalona 2 Juan Carlos Navarro 466 44 10.59 1997-18 Club Barcelona 3 Juan Antonio Epi ** 454 25 18.16 1978-95 Club Barcelona 4 Felipe Reyes 440 51 8.63 1998-21 Real Madrid Basketball 5 Joe Arlauckas 398 16 24.88 1988-98 Real Madrid Basketball 6 Sergio Llull 396 37 10.70 2008-Act. Real Madrid Basketball 7 Alberto Herreros 375 27 13.89 1990-05 Real Madrid Basketball 8 Rudy Fernández 363 33 11.00 2004-Act. Real Madrid Basketball 9 Ante Tomić 332 30 11.07 2010-Act. Club Barcelona 10 Jaycee Carroll 309 29 10.66 2004-21 Real Madrid Basketball Updated statistics up to the last game played the 19 February 2023. Note *: Current club. In other cases it refers to the club in which he added more presences. Note **: It is possible that the indicated records, and some more not indicated, could add more points since the data did not begin to be counted until the 1983-84 season under ACB organization.

Players with the most matches played

For a complete detail see Players with more presences in the King's Cup

The player with the most games played is Felipe Reyes from Córdoba with 51.

The following table reflects the records of which there is evidence since the data did not begin to be counted until the 1983-84 season, the date on which the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) took over the organization of the tournament to the detriment of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB).

Note: indicated in bold active players in the category during the 2023 edition in addition to their current team. Records prior to 1983-84 season unknown.

Pos. Player Part. Final Temp. Club * 1 Felipe Reyes 51 12 1999-21 Real Madrid Basketball 2 Juan Carlos Navarro 44 10 1997-18 Club Barcelona 3 Sergio Llull 37 11 2008-Act. Real Madrid Basketball 4 Rudy Fernández 33 8 2004-Act. Real Madrid Basketball 5 Marcelinho Huertas 31 2004-Act. Club Barcelona 6 Ante Tomić 30 2010-Act. Club Barcelona 7 Rafa Jofresa 29 5 1983-04 Joventut Badalona = Sergi Vidal 29 6 2000-19 Joventut Badalona = Jaycee Carroll 29 2009-21 Real Madrid Basketball 10 Andrés Jiménez ** 28 7 1979-98 Club Barcelona Updated statistics up to the last game played the 19 February 2023. Note *: Current club. In other cases it refers to the club in which he added more presences. Note **: It is possible that the records indicated, and some more not indicated, could add more matches since they did not begin to count until the 1983-84 season under the organization of the ACB.

Other statistical data

The individual bests achieved in the competition are detailed below.

Season	Headquarters	Category	Player	Equipment	Data	Rival
1988-89	Galicia	Points	Leon Wood	CAI Zaragoza	44	Round Box
1989–90	Las Palmas	Points	Mark Davis	CAI Zaragoza	44	Ram Joventut
1990-91	Zaragoza	Rebounds	Kevin Magee	CAI Zaragoza	21	Students
1995–96	Murcia	Rebounds	Warren Kidd	Caja San Fernando	21	Real Madrid CF
2005-06	Madrid	Assistance	Pablo Prigioni	TAU Ceramic Baskonia	15	Pamesa Valencia
2002-03	Valencia	Robbery	Thierry Gadou	TAU Ceramic Baskonia	8	Pamesa Valencia
1997-98	Valladolid	Tapes	Tim Perry	Pamesa Valencia	6	TAU Ceramic Baskonia
2018-19	Madrid	Rating	Nicolás Laprovittola	Divine Insurance Joventut	50	Kirolbet Baskonia
2017–18	Canary Islands	TL	Tornike Shengelia	Kirolbet Baskonia	15	FC Barcelona
1992-93	Galicia	T2	Joe Arlauckas	Taugrés Baskonia	16	Real Madrid CF
1983-84	Zaragoza	T2	Juan Antonio San Epifanio	FC Barcelona	16
1987-88	Valladolid	T2	Michael Young	Fórum Filatélico	16
1992-93	Galicia	T2	Joe Arlauckas	Taugrés Baskonia	16
1986-87	Tenerife	T3	Juan Antonio San Epifanio	FC Barcelona	7	Cacaolat Granollers
1994–95	Grenada	T3	Andy Toolson	Amway Zaragoza	7	FC Barcelona
2010-11	Madrid	T3	Kostas Vasileiadis	Bizkaia Bilbao Basket	7	Baskonia Labour Fund

Scoring records in the final

The joint score record in a final is 243 points and was achieved in the match in 1979 between Barcelona (winner plus scorer, with 130 points) and C.B. Tempus (loser plus scorer, who scored 113 points).

The greatest contribution of a player to the overall score of the champion team was obtained by CAI Zaragoza in the 1990 final. In that game Mark Davis got 44 points out of a total of 76 points for his club, which earned him Davis to match the individual scoring high of the ACB period.

Precisely 44 points is the biggest difference in a final; in 1973, Real Madrid C.F. defeated Estudiantes Monteverde by 123-79. Since 1984 the difference has not exceeded 19, which happened in the 2010 Bilbao edition.

The lowest joint score in a final of the ACB stage (117 points) corresponds to the Estudiantes-CAI of the Granada edition of 1992. Considering the whole story of the tournament, the absolute record for low scores is held by the first final, that of 1933, in which Rayo Club de Madrid beat Real Madrid C. F. (loser less scorer) by 21 to 11. The champion with the least scorer in the history of the competition was C.B. Hospitalet, who scored 20 points in his victory in the first edition under the name of Copa del Generalísimo (1939-1940) in which he defeated Barcelona's C.B. Atlético de Gracia with a result of 20 to 17. In the first years the annotations were extremely scarce in comparative terms with current basketball; in fact, until 1954 no team managed to exceed 50 points in a cup final. The first to do so was Real Madrid, who scored 56 points against Juventud de Badalona in that year. The first to surpass the figure of 100 points in a final was also Real Madrid (102-82 in the final played in Salamanca in 1964 against R.C. Náutico de Tenerife). Finally, the first to exceed the figure of 125 points in a final was C.F. Barcelona. This happened in the one mentioned in previous paragraphs in 1979 at the Anaitasuna Pavilion in Pamplona against Tempus.

The team that has obtained the highest overall score in the finals of the competition is Real Madrid, with a total of 3,212 points, divided into 687 as champions and 704 as runners-up in the stage played under the denomination "Copa del Rey", plus 1330 and 500 as champion and runner-up respectively of the previous stage. In these results, which include up to the 2015 season, the 1948-49 final is not counted as it was played as a league.

Most successful coaches

The coach who has won the most Cup titles is Pedro Ferrándiz from Alicante with eleven, six of them in a row and a record for the tournament. Between 1960 and 1975, he led Real Madrid for thirteen seasons and always played in the final of what was then called the Copa del Generalísimo. In the decisive match he was only defeated twice with a record of success in finals of 11/13, only surpassed in Spanish basketball by his own 12/13 in the League championship. In addition, Ferrándiz won four European Cups and became national coach. Due to his career, palmares and way of being, he is known under the nickname "the Myth".^{[citation required]}

Since the Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) took over the organization of the tournament in 1984, Pablo Laso from Vitoria is the most successful coach with six titles, all with Real Madrid, surpassing the previous mark of Aíto García Reneses.

Regarding the coaches with the most participations and games led, Aíto García Reneses with 22 editions and 51 games is the one with the record.

Most decorated players

Two players share the honor of being the ones who have won the most Copas del Rey; Clifford Luyk, from Real Madrid C.F., and Juan Antonio San Epifanio, Epi, from F.C. Barcelona. Both won the title 10 times, six of them consecutive.

Of Luyk's 10 victories, achieved between 1965 and 1977, nine of them correspond to the stage in which the tournament was called the Generalissimo Cup. The 10 Epi Cups were achieved between 1978 and 1994.

The Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) took over the organization of the Copa del Rey in 1984. Since then, those who have won the Cup the most times are Barça player Juan Carlos Navarro and Felipe Reyes on seven occasions each, followed by Sergio Llull and Rudy Fernández with 6 titles each.

As for the MVP, the most successful player is Rudy Fernández with 3 awards (2004, 2008 and 2015). In one of those titles he was named without being part of the champion team.

Age records

In the ACB stage, the youngest player to play a match is Luka Dončić, who also won with Real Madrid in the 2016 edition at 16 years and 11 months. Despite not playing any minute of play, Mario Saint-Supery is the youngest champion of all time when he won the title in 2023 with Unicaja Málaga at the age of 16 years and 10 months, surpassing Luka Doncic (Real Madrid).

Felipe Reyes, on the other hand, is the oldest player to win the title, at 39 years and 11 months. The oldest player to play a game is Darryl Middleton, doing so at 41 years and 6 months.

In the ACB period, the youngest champion coach is Jesús María Chuchi Carrera, who achieved it in 1990, at the age of 24 years and 11 months, and after having replaced the dismissed Moncho Monsalve at the head of CAI Zaragoza. The oldest champion coach is Svetislav Pešić, when he became champion with F. C. Barcelona in 2019 at the age of 69 years and 5 months.

Other records

Alfonso Martínez is the player who won the Cup with the most different teams, doing so with four: in 1957 with Real Madrid, in 1959 with F. C. Barcelona, in 1964 with Picadero and in 1969 with Joventut de Badalona.

Among those who have been Cup winners as a player and as a coach are Clifford Luyk, Lolo Sáinz, Eduardo Kucharski, Fernando Font, Freddy Borrás, Ignacio Pinedo, Velimir Perasović, Pablo Laso and Šarūnas Jasikevičius.

Record attendance

The final of the 2012 Cup played at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona by FC Barcelona Regal and Real Madrid, is the match in the history of the Copa del Rey with the largest number of indoor audiences, gathering 15,128 spectators.

The previous mark dates back to 2010, when 14,814 spectators gathered at the Bizkaia Arena in Baracaldo to witness the final that also faced FC Barcelona Regal and Real Madrid.

As for the open-air finals, although the chronicles of the time did not refer to the effective number of spectators, the record was disputed by the 1952 final in the Alicante bullring, with a capacity of 15,235 spectators, and the 1950 final in the Plaza de toros de las Arenas in Barcelona, whose usual capacity of 14,893 spectators was increased for the occasion with the installation of chairs on the track.

5G

The 2021 edition of the Copa del Rey was the first sporting event in Spain to have 5G television connections.

Minicopa del Rey

The Minicopa del Rey, known as the Endesa Minicopa for sponsorship reasons, has been played between the children's teams of the professional teams for the absolute Copa del Rey since 2003, being played in parallel, and in which the participants are decided through a previous phase, which accompany the host team and the current champion. In the first edition held in Seville, the children of Club Joventut de Badalona won the first title after defeating the pupils of Fútbol Club Barcelona by 88-53.

Curiously, until 2013 these two teams were the only winners of the competition, until they were joined on that date by the Real Madrid Basketball youth team, who repeated the title in the following edition and continued to win the competition until 2019, adding a total of 7 consecutive titles. Until 2023, it has a streak of nine titles won in the last ten disputed, thus becoming the team with the most championships won.