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Spanish Supercup TV Schedule
Wednesday, January 08
02:00 PM ET
Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona (Supercopa de España)
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Thursday, January 09
02:00 PM ET
Actual Madrid vs. Mallorca (Supercopa de España)
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The Spanish Supercopa TV schedule solely will get modified a few instances a 12 months.
Because the title implies, the Spanish Supercopa, or Supercopa de España, is a cup competitors. Much like the Neighborhood Defend, the competitors options the earlier winners of the Copa del Rey and LaLiga. Nonetheless, there may be one key distinction.
Whereas most supercup competitions solely embody final season’s champions, the Spanish Supercopa differs. Along with the winners, the Supercopa additionally contains the runner-ups from each competitions. The opposite finalist within the Copa del Rey in addition to the second-place LaLiga facet.
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There are incessantly situations the place these golf equipment might overlap, notably in what many assume is an unbalanced league. For instance, say Barcelona wins a league and cup double as they did within the 2017-18 marketing campaign. As Barcelona can’t be two of the 4 groups within the Spanish Supercopa, the second- and third-place groups from LaLiga play within the season prior qualify for the Supercopa.
Historical past of the Spanish Supercopa
This four-team format solely began throughout the 2019/20 season. Previous to that, and since 1982, the Spanish Supercopa was merely a two-legged fixture between the league and cup champions.
In that time-frame, Barcelona emerged as probably the most profitable facet within the competitors. The Catalan facet has 13 Spanish Supercup wins to go together with 11 runner-up finishes. Actual Madrid sits simply behind Barcelona with 11 wins within the competitors.
It must be no shock that these two golf equipment are head and shoulders above the remainder of Spain when it comes to Spanish Supercopa crowns. The duo clearly have probably the most LaLiga and Copa del Rey titles. Due to this fact, they merely have probably the most expertise within the competitors.
That being mentioned, the Spanish Supercup does have its share of thrilling moments. Each of the finals within the four-team format wanted further time to find out a champion. Athletic Bilbao upsetting Barcelona in 2020/21 after Actual Madrid beat Atletico on penalties the 12 months prior.
The competitors was once home-and-away fixtures between the 2 groups. Nonetheless, the competitors appears to change venues. The COVID-19 pandemic compelled the four-team event to be performed behind closed doorways in Seville. Nonetheless, current competitions occurred in Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
ESPN owns the rights to a lot of Spanish soccer, together with each league and cup competitions. With the Spanish Supercopa TV schedule, there are solely three video games. Due to this fact, count on these to be on linear tv (and ESPN+). In the meantime, the vast majority of LaLiga video games and Copa del Rey fixtures are on ESPN+.
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