This tournament was played in Madrid for the trophy "Copa del Rey" or "Copa Alfonso XIII". It was not finished.
Participating Clubs:
Club Espanyol de Football de Barcelona (1)
Club Español de Madrid
Athletic de Bilbao
Madrid - Moderno (2)
(1) Club Espanyol de Football de Barcelona did not play the tournament out
of disagreement with the modus.
(2) The name of Madrid FC in this tournament, because of a merger with Moderno.
Accepted as participants later:
Moncloa FC de Madrid
Iberia de Madrid
Results:
[date and final score unknown]
Moncloa FC de Madrid bt Iberia de Madrid
[Mar 19]
Madrid - Moderno 5-5 Club Español de Madrid [a]
[a] The captains of both teams opposed extra time. Club Español desired
to replay the next day, but Madrid-Moderno did not agree with this for
being too soon and against the tournaments regulations; it seems the
organisers gave guarantees to Madrid-Moderno that no replay would take
place on Mar 20, but Club Español appeared that day and were declared
winners as Madrid-Moderno did not show.
[Mar 27]
Club Español de Madrid 1-0 Moncloa FC de Madrid [b]
[b] This match was abandoned after a serious injury of Hermúa, defender
of Club Español. The winner of this match were supposed to play
Athletic de Bilbao in the final.
Final [Mar 26]
Tiro de Pichón, Madrid
Athletic de Bilbao w/o [c]
[c] No opponent appeared on the originally scheduled date of March 26, and
Athletic de Bilbao were proclaimed winners of the tournament. It appears
that due to the difficulties in the preliminary rounds between the teams
from Madrid, the local federation, the Federación Madrileña fixed the
date of the final on March 30, on which date Club Español de Madrid were
the only team present on the field, and were proclaimed winners by the
president of the Federación Madrileña, who happened to be president of
Club Español de Madrid as well. The other clubs from Madrid did not agree
with the procedure and considered Athletic de Bilbao as winners.
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