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Spain national football team results (unofficial matches)

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The Spain national football team has played in several matches dating back to 1913, which according to various sources are not counted as 'Tier A' international matches. In 2020, the sports newspaper Marca reported that there were 74 such matches, most of them either played during the Spanish Civil War era (late 1930s), charity fundraisers or pre-tournament warm-up matches against clubs or regional representative teams; of the 403 players involved in those matches, 89 were never capped in an official match.[1]

1913

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25 May 1913 Friendly Spain 
(RUECF)
1–1  France
(USFSA)
Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa
16:30 Arzuaga 85'
Report Lepage 75'
Chayriguès
Massip, Gamblin
Lhermitte, Barreau, Pellan
Niggli, Turcan, Devic, Fenouillière, Denis
Stadium: Estadio de Amute
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: José Ángel Berraondo (Spain)

1920

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This was a serie of warm-up matches for the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp, that were played by the Northern Spain.
The 25 players initially called up plus other local players were distributed between two teams: Probables vs Posibles (probable vs possible)

11 July 1920 Training match  Probables 0–2  Posibles Vigo
Report Cruces
Vázquez
Stadium: Campo de Coia
Referee: Manuel Lemmel (Catalonia)
13 July 1920 Training match  Probables 4–0  Posibles Vigo
Vázquez
Paco González
Report Stadium: Campo de Coia
Referee: Manuel Lemmel (Catalonia)
20 July 1920 Training match  Probables 2–0  Posibles Bilbao
Sesúmaga
Arabolaza
Report Stadium: San Mamés Stadium
Referee: Cecilio Ibarreche (Basque Country)
25 or 27 July 1920 Training match  Probables 2–0  Posibles Bilbao
Matías
Arabolaza
Report Stadium: San Mamés Stadium
Referee: Cecilio Ibarreche (Basque Country)
1 August 1920 Training match  Probables 3–1  Posibles Irun
Vázquez
Arabolaza
Acedo
Report Martínez Stadium: Estadio de Amute
Referee: Chopeitia (Basque Country)
8 August 1920 Training match  Probables 3–4  Posibles Irun
Pagaza 2'
Sesúmaga
 ??
Report Vázquez (p) (p)
Arrate
 ??
Stadium: Estadio de Amute
Referee: Chopeitia (Basque Country)

1924

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13 March 1924 Friendly Catalonia  0–7  Spain Barcelona, Catalonia
Report Zabala
Samitier
Carulla 0' (o.g.)
Laca
Stadium: Camp de Les Corts
Referee: Josep Llovera (Catalonia)

1926

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26 December 1926 Unofficial friendly Aragon  1–1  Spain Zaragoza, Aragon
Report Stadium: Campo de la Torre de Bruil

1927

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In May 1927, Spain played a friendly against Portugal in Madrid[2][3][4] on the same day as they played Italy in Rome.[5][6][7][8] The squad for the Italy game was more experienced and considered to be stronger, while several players in the Portugal match made their debuts; consequently the side that played Portugal is considered to have been equivalent to a Spain B team[9] (although they won their match while the 'A team' lost theirs)[8] and thus not a full international, although the match is included in some media articles relating to the Portugal–Spain football rivalry and in some statistical tallies of caps for the players involved[10][11][12][13] (this is not included in Marca's 74 matches).

29 May 1927 Unofficial friendly[2][3] Spain XI  2–0  Portugal XI Spain Madrid
17:30 Moraleda 61'
Valderrama 81'
[8] Stadium: Metropolitano
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: England Thomas Crewe

1933

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28 February 1933 Unofficial friendly Atlético Madrid 1–1  Spain
?? Unofficial friendly Spain  1-0 Central European Club
?? Unofficial friendly Castile 0-0  Spain

1934

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14 February 1934 Friendly Catalonia  0–2  Spain Barcelona, Catalonia
15:45 Report Casuco 30'
Lángara 60'
Stadium: Camp de Les Corts
Referee: Arribas
14 May 1934 Unofficial friendly Spain  3–3 Sunderland Bilbao
Report
15 May 1934 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–1 Sunderland Madrid
Stadium: Chamartín
20 May 1934 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–3 Sunderland Valencia

1936

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8 January 1936 Unofficial friendly ČAFC Židenice 1–2  Spain

Civil War period

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Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, no official matches were played by Spain until 1941.[14] The vast majority of the squad in 1936[15] either originated from the Basque provinces, or played for FC Barcelona in Catalonia, both of which were initially within Republican territory in the conflict. The Basque players formed their own quasi-national team and left Spain to play a long series of exhibition matches on tour around Eastern Europe[16] and Latin America[17] to provide funds and exposure for local causes, and Barcelona did likewise;[18] most of the players in both groups never returned.[14] Back in Spain, as the Nationalist side took control of more of the country, General Franco saw the opportunity to use football as a positive propaganda tool, and arranged for a match to be played in his home region of Galicia against Portugal, whose leader Salazar was supportive of Francoist Spain.[14][19][20][21] Recognition was granted by FIFA at short notice and the match took place in Vigo in November 1937. In contrast to Portugal's settled squad, the Spain pool was hastily assembled from the best available players in Nationalist areas, and Portugal won for their first victory over their neighbours.[19][20][22][23] A return match was arranged for the following January in Lisbon, also won by Portugal,[14][24][21] and which attracted attention when three local players refused to give the Roman salute before kick-off; they were initially imprisoned, but were soon released due to the political influence held by the hierarchy of the club they played for, Belenenses.[19][20] The matches are not considered official, but are included in some media articles relating to the rivalry and in some statistical tallies of caps for the players involved.[10][25][13]

1937

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28 November 1937 Unofficial friendly[14][19][20][22][23] Spain XI  1–2  Portugal XI Vigo, Galicia
Gallart 76' [28][29] Pinga 59'
Valadas 75'
Stadium: Balaídos
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Italy Rinaldo Barlassina

1938

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2 January 1938 Unofficial friendly Cádiz CF 1–5  Spain
6 January 1938 Unofficial friendly Málaga Combined 1–3  Spain
9 January 1938 Unofficial friendly Recreativo Granada 0–3  Spain
16 January 1938 Unofficial friendly Seville XI 1–3  Spain
23 January 1938 Unofficial friendly Seville XI 1–1  Spain
30 January 1938 Unofficial friendly[14][19][20][24] Portugal XI  1–0  Spain XI Campo das Salésias, Lisbon
Pinga 40' [30][31] Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Italy Francesco Mattea
6 February 1938 Unofficial friendly[26] Spanish Morocco 1–3  Spain Estadio Municipal, Ceuta
Ferre Report Vergara
Campanal I
Referee: Tovar
13 February 1938 Unofficial friendly[26] Spanish Morocco 2–5  Spain La Hípica, Tétouan
Tatono
Torrontegui
Report Campanal I
Epi
Vergara
Referee: Guerrero
20 February 1938 Unofficial friendly[26] Melilla XI 0–7  Spain La Hípica, Melilla
Report Referee: Cesáreo González

1940

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5 May 1940 Unofficial friendly Castile 1–2  Spain

1941

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6 December 1941 Unofficial friendly Castile 4–1  Spain
18 December 1941 Unofficial friendly Valencian Community  1–3  Spain

1947

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1 January 1947 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–7 San Lorenzo de Almagro Barcelona, Catalonia
Stadium: Camp de Les Corts
16 January 1947 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–6 San Lorenzo de Almagro Madrid
Stadium: Metropolitano
19 October 1947 Friendly Catalonia  3–1  Spain Barcelona, Catalonia
16:00 César 11', 30'
Toni 67'
Report Bilbao 2' Stadium: Sarrià Stadium
Referee: Azón

1950

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In the run-up to the 1950 FIFA World Cup, Spain played two unofficial friendly matches against Mexico, minus the players taking part in the 1950 Copa del Generalísimo Final (including Athletic Bilbao's prolific goalscorer Zarra).[32] Many of the locals were hostile to the Spanish political regime and the second match ended in controversy when the final whistle was blown as a shot which would have won the match for Spain was on its way to goal; Spanish supporters threw objects at the Mexican players as they left the field. The fallout was a major contributory factor in Asturias and Real Club España, two of the most successful teams in Mexican football and both with strong links to Spain, withdrawing from the professional ranks.[32] A few weeks later, the touring Hungária team (made up of players who had defected from the communist regimes in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, led by Ladislao Kubala)[33][34] played twice in Madrid against an approximation of the Spain World Cup squad, with the right-wing Franco government happy to co-operate with those fleeing from left-wing ideologies for political reasons.

28 May 1950 Friendly[32] Mexico XI  0–0  Spain XI Mexico City
Report Stadium: Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes
Referee: C. Esteva
8 June 1950 Friendly Spain  1–2 Hungária Madrid
Igoa 15' Report Otto 10'
Marik 55'
Stadium: Estadio Metropolitano
Referee: R. Galende Pascual
14 June 1950 Friendly Spain  6–3 Hungária Madrid
Zarra 5', 19', 25'
Gainza 20'
Marik ?' (o.g)
Juncosa ?'
Report Kubala ?' 77'
Nagy 52'
Referee: N. De la Cruz Hernández

1951

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26 April 1951 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–1 Stade de Reims

1952

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19 November 1952 Training match Spain blue  3–1  Spain white Madrid
Marcet
Escudero
Basora
Arsuaga Stadium: Chamartín

1953

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4 March 1953 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–0 Karlsruher SC
28 October 1953 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–0 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
9 August 1953 (1953-08-09) Friendly Catalonia  0–6  Spain Barcelona
Report Referee: Azón
28 October 1953 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–0 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
9 December 1953 Unofficial friendly Spain  6–0 Real Avilés Zaragoza
Artetxe
Pasieguito
Seguí
Miguel
Stadium: Estadio Torrero
16 December 1953 Unofficial friendly Alavés 1–5  Spain

1955

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26 January 1955 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–0 RFC Liégeois Madrid
Ramoní 38' (p)
Buqué
Report Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Marrón

1960

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21 December 1960 Unofficial friendly Real Madrid 4–0  Spain Madrid
20:30 Puskás 22'
del Sol 33'
Di Stéfano 65'
Canário 76'
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín

1962

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29 April 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–2 FC Saarbrücken Madrid
Ruiz Sosa 19'
Martínez 42'
Amancio 48'
Vergés 51'
Adelardo 74'
Vollmar 18', 34' Stadium: Metropolitano
4 May 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  3–0 Stade Rennais Bilbao
Segarra 7'
Guillot 18'
Amancio 68'
Stadium: San Mamés
6 May 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–1 Stade Rennais Bilbao
Ruiz 4'
Di Stéfano 15', 65'
Segarra 17'
Puskás 87'
Hernas 81' Stadium: San Mamés
Referee: Juan Gardeazábal
11 May 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–2 VfL Osnabrück Bilbao
Amancio 9', 73' W. Bensmann 26'
Wiethe 70'
Stadium: San Mamés
Referee: Gómez Arribas
15 May 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–0 VfL Osnabrück San Sebastián
Di Stéfano
Adelardo
Martínez
Suárez
Stadium: Atotxa
17 May 1962 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–1 Bayern Munich Madrid
del Sol 7'
Gento 55'
Puskás 58' (pen.), 71' (pen.), 79'
Sieber 81' Stadium: Metropolitano

1964

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22 January 1964 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–0 Koninklijke Beerschot

1965

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14 March 1965 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–3 Meidericher SV Seville
Aragonés 44', 68' Report Krämer 6'
Nolden 25' (p)
Schmidt 80'
Stadium: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán
Referee: R. Casasola
31 March 1965 Unofficial friendly Spain  2–1 Standard Liège Madrid
Adelardo 39', 51' Report Claessen 75' Stadium: Metropolitano
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Pardo Hidalgo
7 April 1965 Unofficial friendly Spain  3–1 Derry City Football Club Madrid
Luis Aragonés 5'
Ufarte 9'
Adelardo 30'
Report Wilson 56' Stadium: Metropolitano
Referee: Álvarez Martínez
27 April 1965 Unofficial friendly Spain  6–0 Girondins de Bordeaux

1966

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14 March 1966 Unofficial friendly Spain  6–1 Sint-Truidense VV Zaragoza
Fusté 10'
Marcelino 42', 81'
Adelardo 60'
Violeta 72'
Carlos Lapetra 87'
Leender 47' Stadium: La Romareda
Referee: Adolfo Bueno Perales
12 June 1966 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–2 AFC Ajax A Coruña
Zaldúa 75' Johan Cruyff 5'
Co Prins 55'
Stadium: Riazor
Referee: France Mr. Kitabdijan
29 June 1966 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–0 Wiener Sport-Club Pontevedra
Gento ?', ?'
Amancio
Pirri
del Sol
Stadium: Estadio de Pasarón

1967

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14 June 1967 Unofficial friendly Atlético Madrid 0–2  Spain Madrid
Report Vavá II Stadium: Manzanares
27 September 1967 Ricardo Zamora testimonial Spain  0–3 Europe XI Madrid
Report Mazzola 22'
Eusébio 28'
Goyvaerts 88'
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil

1970

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21 January 1970 Unofficial friendly Spain  1–0 Hannover 96 Madrid
Aragonés 57' Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Antonio Camacho

1977

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5 October 1977 Unofficial friendly Spain  5–1 North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia XI Madrid
Pirri 38'
Churruca 44'
Dani 48', 80'
Satrústegi 72'
Report Worm 29' Stadium: Estadio Vicente Calderón
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Soto Montesino

1981

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15 May 1981 Pirri farewell match Real Madrid 1–1  Spain Madrid
20:45 Cunningham 15' Report Joaquín 55' Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
26 June 1981 Asensi & Pirri farewell match Club Puebla 2–1  Spain Puebla
14:00 Cabezas 32'
Pirri 37'
Report Morán 83' Stadium: Estadio Cuauhtémoc
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Edward Bellion (United States)

1985

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16 October 1985 Training match Spain red  1–2  Spain blue Madrid
Rincón 70' Report Ramón Calderé 28'
Eloy 76'
Stadium: Vicente Calderón Stadium
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Morales Manrique

1988

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28 December 1988 José Manuel Alvelo charity match Celta de Vigo 1–2  Spain Vigo
Amarildo 59' (pen.) Report Robert 18'
Martín Vázquez 26'
Stadium: Balaídos
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Joaquín Ramos Marcos

1990

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11 April 1990 Unofficial friendly Spain  3–1 Association of Spanish Footballers Las Palmas
19:00 Butragueño 22'
Miñambres 62', 73'
Report Bossio 83' Stadium: Estadio Insular
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Merino González

2003

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After the cancellation of the friendly against Mexico in New Jersey, a new match was organized by Iñaki Sáez.

20 August 2003 Training match Spain red  2–0  Spain white and blue Las Rozas de Madrid
Etxeberria 10', 70' Report Stadium: La Ciudad del Fútbol
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Carlos Megía Dávila

2013

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A friendly match between Equatorial Guinea and Spain in November 2013[35] was declared void by FIFA a month later due to a procedural error in confirming the use of a local referee.[36] However, the RFEF includes the match and player statistics in its records, and these are usually counted in other sources (e.g. Juanfran Torres scored his only international goal in the fixture).[37] Therefore, this match is included in the 2010–19 results and overall head-to-head record lists.

20 November 2013, FIFA declares South Africa-Spain match (19 November 2013) invalid for the purposes of ranking due to the Spanish team making one more change than allowed. However, some days before FIFA confirms South Africa's friendly win over Spain FIFA have taken into account that both teams had agreed on the conditions of the match and submitted the necessary documentation prior to the match in order for FIFA to confirm it as an ‘A’ international.[41]

19 November Friendly South Africa  1–0  Spain Johannesburg
20.00 Parker 56' Report Stadium: Soccer City
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: Osiase Koto (Lesotho)

2022

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The match between Jordan and Spain on 17 November did not count as an official friendly. The reason for that was because the Spanish FA and FIFA had agreed to increase the number of substitutions each team could make so that Spain's players was fresh for the start of the FIFA World Cup 2022 (whose opening occurred on November 20).[citation needed]

17 November 2022 (2022-11-17) Friendly Jordan  1–3  Spain Amman
19:00 UTC+3 Al-Dardour 90+2' Report Fati 12'
Gavi 55'
Williams 84'
Stadium: Amman International Stadium
Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The game between Equatorial Guinea and Spain in November 2013[38] was declared void by FIFA a month later due to a procedural error in confirming the use of a local referee.[39] However, the RFEF includes the match and player statistics in its records, and these are usually counted in other sources (e.g. Juanfran Torres scored his only international goal in the fixture).[40]

References

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  41. ^ confirms South Africa's friendly win over Spain