UDG Tenerife, rival in the Queen’s Cup
UDG Tenerife, rival in the Queen’s Cup
El primer partido de la competición, en octavos de final, enfrentará a las leonas con el conjunto canario en feudo rojiblanco
The first match of the competition, in the round of 16, will face the lionesses with the UGD Tenerife in red-and-white territory
Athletic Club will face Unión Deportiva Granadilla de Tenerife in the round of 16 of the Queen’s Cup after the draw made this morning at the RFEF headquarters in Las Rozas. The qualifying round, a single match, will be played on 11 or 12 February on red-and-white territory. The ball was the first to be taken out of the drum with the 16 teams of the Primera Iberdrola.
The Canarian team is in the middle of the classification of the league competition, with 17 points, placed tenth in the table with 4 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses. Athletic fell in the first leg of the Primera Iberdrola by 1 goal to 0 in the match played in Tenerife. It will be the first confrontation between both teams in the Cup.
This is how the Round of 16, the first round of this year’s competition, have been organized after the draw:
Athletic Club – UDG Tenerife
CD Tacón – Rayo Vallecano
Sporting Club de Huelva – FC Barcelona
Sevilla FC – Levante UD
Real Sociedad – Madrid CFF
RCD Espanyol – EDF Logroño
Deportivo Abanca – Valencia CF
Real Betis – Atlético de Madrid
A long-awaited trophy
The Queen’s Cup is a desired trophy for Athletic. The red-and-white team have twice reached the final of the championship, in the 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 seasons, when they lost against Espanyol 2-1 in Las Rozas and against FC Barcelona in the decisive penalty shootout in Ceuta. The Cup has left many tears and emotions on the way. Precisely, in the participation in this tournament FC Barcelona has been his great rival, preventing the lionesses from winning the title or passing the round up to four times, the last one (2017-2018), in the semifinals of the tournament in Reus.
Last year, Athletic got through the first round by beating Real Betis on penalties before facing Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals in the historic San Mamés match, which was the record attendance for a women’s match in Europe, with 48,121 spectators.