| Spain Cup | |
| Year: | 2024–25 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Num Teams: | 40 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Matches: | 80 |
| Award Title: | MVP |
| Next Season: | 2025–26 |
| Updated: | 12 November 2024 |
The 2024–25 Spain Cup is the inaugural edition of the Spain Cup, a men's basketball competition created with the aim to replace the Copa Princesa de Asturias and the Copa LEB Plata.[1] It is played by teams competing in the 2024–25 season of the Primera FEB and the Segunda FEB.
Across mainland Spain, match times up to 26 October 2024 are CEST (UTC+2) and from 27 October 2024 are CET (UTC+1); matches played in the Canary Islands up to 26 October 2024 use the WEST (UTC+1) and from 27 October 2024 are WET (UTC+0).
In the summer of 2024, the Spanish Basketball Federation released the calendar of the new competition.[2]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 19 July 2024[4] | 6–8 September 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | 12–18 September 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 11, 20–22 September 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 22 October 2024 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 12 November 2024 | |||
| Quarter-finals | 20 November 2024[5] | 23 December 2024 | 7 January 2025 | |
| Final Four | Semi-finals | 24 January 2025 | ||
| Final | 25 January 2025 | |||
The following teams qualified for the competition.[6] In case of vacant places, they were placed in order of their final position in the last LEB Plata and Liga EBA seasons.[7]
The group stage, which had a total of 40 teams from the Primera FEB and the Segunda FEB, consisted of eight groups of five teams in each group that had been configured according to criteria of geographical and sporting distribution and compensation between divisions. In each group, each team played four matches over five matchdays of competition. The first three matchdays were played throughout the first three weeks of September prior to the start of the leagues and the last two matchdays were played on October 22 and November 12. At the end of the group stage, the eight top teams from each group advanced for the quarter-finals.
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The quarter-finals will be played in two-legged ties on a home-and-away basis that were determined by luck of the draw. The first legs will be played on December 23, 2024, and the second legs will be played on January 7, 2025. The teams from the lower divisions will play the second leg at home, while in the case of same division, the luck of the draw determined the order of the matches.[8]
Source: FEB
The Final Four will be a single-elimination tournament consisting of two rounds contested by the four series winners of the quarter-finals. It will be played on January 24–25, 2025.