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1996–97 Copa del Rey

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1130835 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1996–97 Copa del Rey was the 95th staging of the Copa del Rey.

The competition started on 4 September 1996 and concluded on 28 June 1997 with the final, held at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.

Editorial summary

“1996–97 Copa del Rey” enters the record as sports season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Copa, sports and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Copa, sports and season.
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Why this record matters

“1996–97 Copa del Rey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Copa, sports and season provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1130835. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “1996–97 Copa del Rey” 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.