Copa del Rey: Camp Nou will host the final between FC Barcelona & Athletic Club Bilbao on 30/05/2015

The Camp Nou in Barcelona (99,350 seats) will host the final of the 2015 Copa del Rey between FC Barcelona (Liga BBVA) and Athletic Club Bilbao (Liga BBVA) on 30/05/2015, announced the RFEF following a technical meeting that was attended by representatives of the Federation and the two finalist clubs on 25/03/2015.

Due to the lack of compromise between the clubs, the Camp Nou was chosen through a vote: Barcelona's ground was chosen over Bilbao's San Mamés Barria (53,000 seats), Valencia CF's Estadio Mestalla (55,000 seats) and Sevilla FC's Benito Villamarín stadium (52,500 seats).

The final of the Copa del Rey is not played in a fixed place: each year, the stadium which hosts the match is chosen by the RFEF after the semi-finals of the competition. The final of the 2015 Copa del Rey is the 4^th to be played at the Camp Nou.

Both teams wanted to play at Santiago Bernabeu

• FC Barcelona and Athletic Club Bilbao had both expressed their desire to play the final at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid (85,000 seats), but Real Madrid CF (Liga BBVA) declined to make its ground available for the…