This Monday, April 5, 2021 at 12:00 hours, the draw for the Queen's Cup at the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). A celebration that will be without public due to COVID-19 and that can be followed live via streaming. The cup tournament will thus start its 2020-21 edition, in which the format will be changed to once again have eight participants, which will be: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Levante, Atlético de Madrid, Real Sociedad, Granadilla, Madrid CFF and Sevilla FC.
The Cup will be held like this from Quarter-finals in single-match qualifiers to be played on April 21 and 22, 2021 or May 5 and 6 in the court of the team whose ball was drawn first. For the election of the date of celebration of the meetings will have priority the team that plays European competitions (the Barça, that is semifinals), and in its absence, the local teams. For its part, The semifinals will take place on May 26 and 27 and the final on May 29 or 30, in the Community of Madrid.
As for the draw, there will be a single cup in which eight balls will be included with the names of the participating clubs to proceed to the pure draw. The draw will begin with the extraction of the four teams that will have the status of home. Subsequently, the four visiting teams will be drawn, matching the one drawn in first place with the one drawn in fifth place, the second with the sixth and so on until the four pairings corresponding to the quarterfinals are completed. In this way, the matches will be configured as follows:
Quarterfinal 1: first drawn versus fifth drawn.
Quarterfinal 2: second drawn versus sixth drawn.
Quarterfinal 3: third drawn against seventh drawn.
Quarterfinal 4: fourth drawn versus eighth drawn.
Once the matches corresponding to the Quarter-Finals have been held and the results are known, a public draw will be held for the pairings corresponding to the semi-finals. The final will face the winning teams of the two semifinals, with the oldest club affiliated to the RFEF acting as local.