Real Betis cantera Madrid, Juventus and Spain. Betis face a battle with city rivals Sevilla to sign the best local prospects. As at senior level, over recent years Sevilla have been slightly superior to Betis, both in terms of success in youth competitions and producing quality players for the first team. The best achievements of the Betis senior side in the early 21st century, when they won the 2004–05 Copa del Rey and finished 4th in the league in the same season to qualify for the Champions League, were accomplished with a high number of homegrown players in the squad including Capi, David
Names for association football which prohibits similar games back to at least that century. This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua, which utilize "futbalo" and "football", respectively. In the first half of the 20th century, in Spanish and Portuguese, new words were created to replace "football" ("fútbol" in Spanish and "futebol" in Portuguese), "balompié" ("balón" and "pie" meaning "ball" and "foot") and "ludopédio" (from words meaning "game" and "foot") respectively. However, these words were not widely accepted and are now only used in club names such as Real Betis Balompié and Albacete Balompié. Aside from the name of the game