The 1999–2000 Copa del Rey was the 98th staging of the

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...

. The competition started on 1 September 1999 and concluded on 27 May 2000 with the Final, held at the

Estadio Mestalla Mestalla Stadium ( es, Estadio de Mestalla , ca-valencia, Estadi de Mestalla ) is a football stadium in Valencia, Spain. The stadium is the home of Valencia Club de Fútbol and has a capacity of 48,600 seats, making it the 8th-largest stadium ...

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

Preliminary round

First round

Second round

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Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Note: Barcelona failed to play the second leg due to a fixture clash with

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international matches, which left Barcelona with only seven first-team players. The competition rules at the time for the

allowed sides a maximum of three youth players per match, leaving Barcelona with a squad of ten players for the return leg against

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. The ten Barcelona players refused to take to the field as a protest against the Spanish FA (

RFEF The Royal Spanish Football Federation ( es, Real Federación Española de Fútbol; RFEF) is the governing body of football in Spain. It is based in La Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas, a municipality near Madrid. It was founded on 14 October 1909 ...

), thus forfeiting the match.Barcelona forfeit place in Spanish Cup final
, Sportcal, 25 April 2000

Final

Top goalscorers

References

External links

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