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1959 Copa del Generalísimo final

57th final of the King's Cup played in Madrid, Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ20065285 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Copa del Generalísimo 1959 final was the 57th final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, on 21 June 1959, being won by CF Barcelona, who beat Granada CF 4–1.

Editorial summary

“1959 Copa del Generalísimo final” enters the record as 57th final of the King's Cup played in Madrid, Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Copa, Generalísimo and final can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Copa, Generalísimo and final.
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“1959 Copa del Generalísimo final” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Copa, Generalísimo and final provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20065285. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “1959 Copa del Generalísimo final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.