20-704: Segunda Federación , previously called Segunda RFEF , also officially known as Segunda B , is the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system containing 90 teams divided into five groups. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation . It is the second tier outside the top two professional leagues, the Primera División (also known as La Liga ) and Segunda División (also known as La Liga 2 ), being behind Primera Federación and above Tercera Federación . The division also includes
40-515: A north-west/south-east split. In its first season, 4 teams will be relegated from the Segunda División (La Liga 2) and the remaining will come from the Segunda División B . Like the other Spanish divisions, it takes place annually, beginning at the end of August or early September, and ending in May or June of the following year. The twenty teams in each group play each other twice, home and away, for
60-470: A total of thirty-eight matches. At the end of the season, the seven teams that accumulate the most points in each group, excluding reserve teams, qualify for the next edition of the Copa del Rey . At the end of the season a total of four teams are promoted to the second tier with the winners in each group achieve automatic promotion to Segunda División . The second to fifth place teams will play promotion play-offs to
80-477: Is commonly known as LaLiga Hypermotion for sponsorship reasons. Level League 1 Liga F (finetwork Liga F) 16 teams 2 Primera Federación 14 teams 3 Segunda Federación 32 teams divided into 2 groups 4 Primera Nacional 6 groups, 14 teams each 5 Regional leagues Level League 1 División de Honor (7 groups) 2 Primera Federaci%C3%B3n The Primera Federación , formerly known as Primera RFEF ,
100-811: Is in one division above it. The bottom five teams in each group are relegated to the Tercera Federación . Also, the four worst 13th-placed teams enter into relegation play-offs to determine the two teams to be relegated. Each team of Segunda Federación can have 22 players in their roster, with these two limitations: The member clubs of the Segunda Federación for the 2024–25 season are listed below. Goals in playoffs are not counted. Spanish football league system The Spanish football league system consists of several professional, semi-professional and non-professional leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation . The top two tiers of
120-587: Is operated by the RFEF and 17 regional federations corresponding to each of the autonomous communities of Spain (there are 18 groups – Andalusia is divided into two due to its size). Prior to 2021, this was known as the Tercera División and was the fourth level, but had the same format. In 2020–21 the division also had an atypical form of 36 local subgroups followed by a total of 50 subgroups to allocate promotion, playoff, and relegation places. From level 6, each of
140-583: Is the second highest level in the Spanish football league system and is also operated by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. The Royal Spanish Football Federation ( RFEF ) created a new tier to begin in the 2021–22 season placed between the Segunda División and the former Segunda División B which had been created in 1977. The federation officially named the third tier, containing two regionalised groups,
160-558: Is the third tier of the Spanish football league system beginning with the 2021–22 season. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation . It is below the top two professional leagues, the Primera División (also known as La Liga ) and Segunda División (also known as La Liga Hypermotion ), above the Segunda Federación and Tercera Federación . It is the highest level of semi-professional football in Spain . In 2020,
180-459: The Primera Federación . Below the new Primera División RFEF sits the fourth tier, the Segunda Federación , roughly corresponding to the format of Segunda B, other than that the new format has five regionalized groups. In contrast, the old system contained only four, other than in its final season, 2020–21 , unique both due to the transition into the new system and complications caused by
200-556: The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain which led to more teams being included and a complicated format involving 10 localized leagues half the size of the usual groups, followed by 15 sections to determine which teams would go into the second, third, fourth and fifth levels. Following the reorganization, the Tercera Federación is the fifth highest level in the Spanish football league system and
220-591: The Royal Spanish Football Federation announced the creation of three new divisions, two semi-professional and one amateur: the Primera División RFEF as the new third tier of the Spanish system; the Segunda División RFEF as the new fourth tier, broadly using the same format as the Segunda División B created in 1977; and the Tercera División RFEF as the fifth tier, along the same lines as
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#1733084566467240-467: The Tercera División from 1977 whereby groups are limited to teams from each of the nation's autonomous communities and is administered by a local body. On 30 June 2022, after just one season of existence, Primera División RFEF was renamed to Primera Federación . The Primera Federación is made up of 40 clubs divided into two groups of 20 teams distributed by geographical proximity, initially with
260-402: The reserve teams of a number of La Liga and La Liga 2 teams. On 6 May 2020, the RFEF announced the creation of a new, two-group, 40-team third division called Primera División RFEF , which resulted in the former third division, Segunda División B , dropping down a level and becoming Segunda División RFEF ; the changes were made effective for the 2021–22 campaign. In July 2022, the division
280-628: The RFEF's 19 regional federations runs its regional league pyramid under its own jurisdiction. Level League(s)/Division(s) 1 Primera División (LaLiga EA Sports) 20 teams 2 Segunda División (LaLiga Hypermotion) 22 teams 3 Primera Federación 40 clubs divided into 2 groups 4 Segunda Federación 90 clubs divided into 5 groups 5 Tercera Federación 324 clubs divided into 18 groups 6 1st Regional Division 7 2nd Regional Division 8 3rd Regional Division 9 4th Regional Division 10 5th Regional Division From 1929 to 1940
300-646: The Spanish pyramid was similar to the Brazilian system, with two simultaneous and independent pyramids, the national pyramid, and the regional pyramid. The Primera and Segunda was founded by the Royal Spanish Football Association , but since 1984 is operated by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional . Since 2023 the Primera División is commonly known as LaLiga EA Sports and the Segunda División
320-407: The male league pyramid — Primera División ( a.k.a. La Liga) and Segunda División ( a.k.a. La Liga 2) — are administered by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , a sports association with independent legal status from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), the governing body of football in Spain. Conversely, the top tiers of the women's pyramid ( Liga F ), second and third tier of
340-462: The second division, where two of eight teams win the play-offs and are promoted to Segunda División. The bottom five in each division are relegated to the fourth tier. The two group winners play the final of the tournament. The winner obtains direct qualification to the Copa del Rey second round, as well as receiving the Primera Federación champion trophy. Reserve teams can participate in
360-453: The system. The RFEF allows reserve teams to compete in the main league system, as is the case in most European domestic leagues. However, reserve teams are not allowed to compete in the same tier as their senior team, and no reserve team has thus competed in the top flight. La Liga is the highest level in the Spanish football league system and is operated by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional . Segunda División, also called La Liga 2
380-420: The women's pyramid, ( Primera Federación and Segunda Federación ) are administered by the RFEF. The lower tiers (6th and below for the men's pyramid; 5th and below for the female one) are run by the regional federations. In addition to clubs from Spain, and under the purview of the additional provision 17 of the 1990 Law of Sport, Andorran clubs affiliated to a Spanish regional federation are allowed to compete in
400-407: Was renamed Segunda Federación . Segunda Federación features 90 teams divided into 5 groups of 18. The champions of each group achieve automatic promotion to Primera Federación , while the other top four teams qualify for a play-off round, where five of the 20 teams qualified also achieve promotion. However reserve teams are only eligible for promotion to the Primera Federación if their senior team
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