International Club Friendly: RCD Espanyol vs Las Palmas
International Club Friendly: RCD Espanyol vs Las Palmas: Starting on July 22, 2022, at 17:00 UTC, Espanyol will play Las Palmas. As part of the Club Friendly Games, this game is being played. Here is everything you need to know about the teams and how they match up with each other.
About RCD Espanyol
Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol is the nickname for the professional sports team Espanyol de Barcelona, which is based in Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain. It plays in La Liga, which is the highest level of the Spanish football league system. In 1928, Espanyol joined La Liga and won their first Copa del Rey the following year. Espanyol has played the most seasons in La Liga but has never won the league title. Espanyol was founded in 1900 in Barcelona. Their home games are held at the RCDE Stadium, which can hold up to 40,000 people. Espanyol has won the Copa del Rey four times in Spain. The most recent time was in 2006. Internationally, the club made it to the final of the UEFA Cup in 1988 and 2007. It has been rivals with FC Barcelona for a long time.
About UD Las Palmas
The Spanish football team Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, SAD, is based in Las Palmas, which is on the island of Gran Canaria in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. It was founded on August 22, 1949, and plays in the Segunda División. Its home stadium, Estadio Gran Canaria, can hold up to 32,400 people. The club usually wears yellow shirts with blue shorts and blue socks when they play. The club is the only one in the history of Spanish football to have been promoted to La Liga in both of its first two seasons. It was in the competition for 19 years, until 1982–83. Since then, they have been promoted to La Liga three more times, for a total of eight more seasons. The most recent time was from 2015 to 2018.
Records from head to head of past matches
In the eight times that RCD Espanyol and UD Las Palmas have played each other, RCD Espanyol has won 3 times, and UD Las Palmas has won 2 times. There have been three draws between RCD Espanyol and UD Las Palmas.
| DATE | WINNING SIDE | SCORE | LOSING SIDE |
| 24th April 2021 | RCD Espanyol | 4 – 0 | UD Las Palmas |
| 03rd January 2021 | UD Las Palmas | 1 – 0 | RCD Espanyol |
| 28th April 2018 | Tied | 1 – 1 | Tied |
| 17th December 2017 | Tied | 2 – 2 | Tied |
| 10th March 2017 | RCD Espanyol | 4 – 3 | UD Las Palmas |
| 14th October 2016 | Tied | 0 – 0 | Tied |
| 22nd April 2016 | UD Las Palmas | 4 – 0 | RCD Espanyol |
| 19th December 2015 | RCD Espanyol | 1 – 0 | UD Las Palmas |