46 POSSIBLE OPPONENTS IN THE DRAW FOR THE FIRST ROUND OF THE COPA DEL REY

The 202/21 Copa del Rey begins. On Thursday at 16:30 the draw for the first round will take place at the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas. 112 teams will be involved, all of the contenders except for the four participants in the Spanish Super Cup. Sevilla FC therefore will start their cup adventure with 46 possible opponents in a one-off match which will take place away from home next Wednesday on December 1st. 

The new element of this edition, the third with this format, is that the pots in which the teams are divided into change, as does the distribution of rankings. Specifically, in Pool 1 there will be 16 teams from La Liga Santander who will enter. In Pool 2, the 21 participants from La Liga Smartbank will enter, given that the Real Sociedad B team are not allowed to participate. In Pool 3, the 29 contenders from the Primera RFEF Footters and in Pot 4 a total of 32 teams from the Segunda RFEF. In Pot 5 there will be the four semi-finalists from the RFEF Copa and in Pot 6 the 10 survivors from the preliminary round, in which 20 regional teams battled it out. 

The 46 possible opponents for Sevilla are made up of the 10 regional teams, the four from the RFEF Copa and the 32 from the Segunda RFEF. In the draw first the ten regional teams will be paired with 10 from the first division. Then the remaining six from the first division will be drawn with the four from the RFEF Cup and two from the Segunda RFEF. With all of the first division sides draw, then the 21 La Liga Smartbank teams with be drawn with the others from the Segunda RFEF, while the last nine teams from the Segunda RFEF will face nine from the Primera RFEF Footers. 

The furthest possible opponenets is CD Mensajero and the closest Xerez DFC 

Lastly, the 20 teams that remain to be drawn from the Primera RFEF will play against each other in 10 elimination matches. These are the only ties in which geography will influence the draw. In all the other ties the lowest-ranked team will be at home. This is the composition of the six pools: 

(16) La Liga Santander (Pool 1): Sevilla FC, Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Villarreal CF, RC Celta, Granada CF, CA Osasuna, Cádiz CF, Valencia CF, Levante UD, Getafe CF, Deportivo Alavés, Elche CF, RCD Espanyol, RCD Mallorca and Rayo Vallecano.

(21) La Liga Smartbank (Pool 2): SD Huesca, Real Valladolid, SD Eibar, CD Leganés, UD Almería, Girona FC, Real Sporting, SD Ponferradina, UD Las Palmas, CD Mirandés, Fuenlabrada CF, Málaga CF, Real Oviedo, CD Tenerife, Real Zaragoza, FC Cartagena, AD Alcorcón, CD Lugo, Burgos CF, SD Amorebieta and UD Ibiza.

(29) Primera RFEF Footters (Pool 3): CE Sabadell FC, UD Logroñés, CD Castellón, Albacete Balompié, Zamora CF, Unionistas de Salamanca CF, CyD Leonesa, Racing Club de Ferrol, CD Calahorra, CD Tudelano, SD Logroñés, Real Unión Club, FC Andorra, Gimàstic de Tarragona, CD Alcoyano, UE Cornellá, Linares Deportivo, UCAM Murcia CF, San Fernando CD, Algeciras CF, Atlético Sanluqueño, CD Badajoz, UD San Sebastián de los Reyes, Extremadura UD, DUX Internacional de Madrid, CF Talavera de la Reina, CF Rayo Majadahonda, RC Deportivo and Atlético Baleares.

(32) Segunda RFEF (Pool 4): CD Arenteiro, UC Ceares, CD Cayón, SD Gernika, CE Europa, CD Eldense, AD Unión Adarve, Gimnástica Segoviana CF, Vélez CF, Xerez Deportivo FC, CD Ibiza Islas Pitiusas, CD Mensajero, Águilas FC, CP Cacereño, Peña Sport FC, Racing Rioja CF, CD Teruel, CD Marchamalo, UD Montijo, CD Palencia Cristo Atlético, Club Atlético Pulpileño, Náxara CD, Bergantiños FC, CD San Roque de Lepe, CD Brea, CE Andratx, UD Llanera, UD Alzira, Calvo Sotelo Puertollano CF, AD San Juan, Atlético Mancha Real and CF Panadería Pulido San Mateo.

(4) Semifinalistas Copa RFEF (Pool 5): CD Ebro, SD Leioa, CD Guijuelo and Córdoba CF.

(10) Territorial (Pool 6): SD Solares-Medio Cudeyo, CD Utrillas, Unami CP, Victoria CF, CF San Agustín del Guadalix, CFI Alicante, CD Villa de Fortuna, CD Laguna, CFJ Mollerussa and CD Huracán Melilla.