"Liga BBVA – Season 2008/2009 – Matchday 38". Liga de Fútbol Profesional. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2010. Tables for previous seasons may be obtained using the "Other searches" button. User must select the appropriate season, and set "matchday" to the number of matches played in that season, as per this list.
"Liga BBVA – Season 2008/2009 – Matchday 38". Liga de Fútbol Profesional. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2010. Tables for previous seasons may be obtained using the "Other searches" button. User must select the appropriate season, and set "matchday" to the number of matches played in that season, as per this list.
The 1904 Copa del Rey was organized by the newly formed Madrid Football Federation. Originally, three teams were to participate, and the Federation invited Athletic Bilbao representing Biscay and Espanyol representing Catalonia. Madrid was to be represented by the winner of a preliminary round between Club Español de Madrid and Madrid-Moderno (a merger of Madrid CF and Moderno FC). The three teams were to contest the cup in a round-robin format. Before the tournament, Espanyol, unhappy with the competition system, announced they would not go to Madrid. Then two more teams from Madrid, Moncloa FC and Iberia Football Club, were admitted in the competition, forcing a change to the schedule. As a result, the four Madrid teams were scheduled to play a single-elimination tournament to decide their representative for the Copa del Rey final against automatically qualified Athletic Bilbao.[27] The semi-final qualifying match between Club Español de Madrid and Madrid-Moderno ended in 5–5 draw. The captains of both teams agreed not to play extra time, but failed to reach an agreement on when they should replay the match. Español wanted to play the next day, but Madrid-Moderno refused, citing the rules of the tournament which stated that a replay could not be played less than 48 hours after the previous game. The next day Club Español went to replay the match, but Madrid-Moderno did not appear.[28] The regional federation, whose president Ceferino Birdalone happened to be president of Club Español as well, ruled in favor of Español, and they were declared winners of the match eliminating Madrid FC from the competition.[13]
