Segunda División B is the third level of the Spanish football league system.
It is administered by the RFEF. The top two levels are La Liga, also referred to
as the Primera División, and the Segunda División.
Immediately below Segunda División B is the Tercera Division. Among the teams
playing in the division during the 2007/08 season are Real Unión, who were
founding members of La Liga.
The division also includes the reserve teams of several La Liga teams including
Real Madrid Castilla, Atlético Madrid B, Bilbao Athletic, Deportivo B, Racing de
Santander B,
Sporting de Gijón B, Barcelona Atlètic, Osasuna B, Villarreal CF B, Valencia CF
Mestalla, Real Sociedad B (Sanse), Real Valladolid B and Real Betis B.
Segunda División B currently features 80 teams divided into 4 groups of 20. The top four teams from each group, 16 teams in total, qualify for play-offs to determine which four teams will replace the four teams relegated from the Liga Adelante. However reserve teams are only eligible for promotion to the Liga Adelante if their senior team is in the Liga BBVA. The top five teams from each group and best two teams regardless of group outside the previous twenty, excluding reserve teams, also qualify for the following seasons Copa del Rey. The bottom four teams in each league are relegated to the Tercera División. Also, the four 16th-placed teams enter into a relegation playoff to determine the two teams to be relegated. One team is paired with one of the others in home and away series. the two winners remain in the division while the losers are relegated. A reserve team can also be relegated if their senior team is relegated from the Liga Adelante. Along with teams from the Tercera División, teams from the division also compete in the Copa Federación.
Beginning with the 2008-09 season, the four group winners will have the opportunity to be promoted directly and be named the overall Segunda División B champion. The four group winners will be drawn into a two-legged series where the two winners will be promoted to the Liga Adelante and enter into the final for the Segunda División B championship. The two losing semifinalists enter the playoff round for the last two promotion spots.
The four group runners-up will be drawn against one of the three fourth-placed teams outside their group while the four third-placed teams are drawn against one another in a two-legged series. The six winners advance with the two losing semifinalists to determine the four teams that will enter the last two-legged series for the last two promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club plays at home first. Whenever the is a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the Semifinal Round and Final or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw will determine the club to play at home first.
Since the 2008/09 season, the new system to decide the absolute champion was implemented. After playing each other the four champions of the four groups, the two winners of their promotion to the Spanish Second Division face each other a round-trip round to decide the absolute champion of the category.
2021-22:
In 2020, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced the creation of three
new divisions, two semi-professional and one amateur:[1] the Primera División
RFEF as the new third tier of the Spanish system;[2] 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 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.
The RFEF First Division will be made up of a total of 40 clubs divided into two groups of 20 teams distributed by geographical proximity. 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.[3]
Like the other Spanish divisions, it will take 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 will play each other twice, home and away, for 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 will be promoted to the second tier with the champions in each group achieve automatic promotion to Segunda División. The second to fifth place teams will play promotion play-offs to the second division, where two of eight teams win the play-offs will promoted to Segunda División. The bottom five in each division will be relegated to the fourth tier.
GROUP CHAMPIONS 2ª DIVISIÓN B
Nº Year Group I Group II Group III Group IV 1 1929 Cultural Leonesa None None None 1930-77 Not held Not held Not held Not held 2 1977-78 Racing Club Ferrol AD Almería None None 3 1978-79 Palencia CF Levante UD None None 4 1979-80 Barakaldo CF Linares CF None None 5 1980-81 RC Celta de Vigo RCD Mallorca None None 6 1981-82 FC Barcelona B Xerez CD None None 7 1982-83 Athletic de Bilbao B Granada CF None None 8 1983-84 CE Sabadell Lorca CF None None 9 1984-85 Sestao SC Rayo Vallecano None None 10 1985-86 UE Figueres Xerez CD None None 11 1986-87 CD Tenerife None None None 12 1987-88 SD Eibar Real Zaragoza B UD Salamanca UD Alzira 13 1988-89 Athletic de Bilbao B Palamós CF Atlético de Madrid B Levante UD 14 1989-90 Real Avilés UE Lleida Albacete Balompié Orihuela CF 15 1990-91 Real Madrid Castilla Racing Santander CD Badajoz FC Barcelona B 16 1991-92 UD Salamanca UE Sant Andreu FC Cartagena Atlético Marbella 17 1992-93 UD Salamanca CD Alavés Real Murcia UD Las Palmas 18 1993-94 UD Salamanca CD Alavés UDA Gramenet CF Extremadura 19 1994-95 Racing Club Ferrol CD Alavés Levante UD Córdoba CF 20 1995-96 UD Las Palmas Sporting de Gijón B Levante UD Real Jaén CF 21 1996-97 Sporting de Gijón B CD Aurrerá de Vitoria Gimnàstic Tarragona Córdoba CF 22 1997-98 CP Cacereño Barakaldo CF FC Barcelona B Málaga CF 23 1998-99 Getafe CF Cultural Leonesa Levante UD UD Melilla 24 1999-00 Universidad Las Palmas RSG Torrelavega CF Gandía Granada CF 25 2000-01 Atlético de Madrid B Burgos CF UDA Gramenet Cádiz CF 26 2001-02 Barakaldo CF FC Barcelona B Real Madrid B Motril CF 27 2002-03 Universidad Las Palmas Real Unión de Irún CD Castellón Algeciras CF 28 2003-04 Pontevedra CF Atlético de Madrid B UE Lleida UD Lanzarote 29 2004-05 Real Madrid Castilla SD Ponferradina Alicante CF Sevilla B 30 2005-06 Universidad Las Palmas UD Salamanca CF Badalona FC Cartagena 31 2006-07 Pontevedra CF SD Eibar Alicante CF Sevilla B 32 2007-08 Rayo Vallecano SD Ponferradina Girona FC Écija Balompié 33 2008-09 Real Unión de Irún FC Cartagena CD Alcoyano Cádiz CF 34 2009-10 SD Ponferradina AD Alcorcón UE Sant Andreu Granada CF 35 2010-11 CD Lugo SD Eibar CE Sabadell Real Murcia 36 2011-12 Real Madrid Castilla CD Mirandés Atlético Baleares Cádiz CF 37 2012-13 CD Tenerife CD Alavés CE l´Hospitalet Real Jaén CF 38 2013-14 Racing de Santander Sestao River UE Llagostera Albacete Balompié 39 2014-15 Real Oviedo SD Huesca Gimnàstic Tarragona Cádiz CF 40 2015-16 Racing de Santander Real Madrid Castilla CF Reus Deportiu UCAM Murcia CF 41 2016-17 Cultural Leonesa Albacete Balompié FC Barcelona B La Hoya Lorca CF 42 2017-18 Rayo Majadahonda CD Mirandés RCD Mallorca FC Cartagena 43 2018-19 CF Fuenlabrada Racing de Santander Atlético Baleares Recreativo de Huelva 44 2019-20 CD Atlético Baleares UD Logroñés CD Castellón FC Cartagena 45 2020-21 Burgos CF Real Sociedad B UD Ibiza CD Badajoz GROUP CHAMPIONS 1ª DIVISIÓN RFEF Nº Year Group I Group II 46 2021-22 Racing de Santander FC Andorra 47 2022-23 Racing Club de Ferrol SD Amorebieta ABSOLUTE CHAMPIONS 2ª DIVISIÓN B 1 2008-09 Cádiz CF 2 2009-10 Granada CF 3 2010-11 Real Murcia 4 2011-12 Real Madrid Castilla 5 2012-13 CD Alavés 6 2013-14 Albacete balompié 7 2014-15 Real Oviedo 8 2015-16 UCAM Murcia CF 9 2016-17 Cultural Leonesa 10 2017-18 RCD Mallorca 11 2018-19 CF Fuenlabrada 12 2019-20 * Not disputed (Covid-19) 13 2020-21 * Not disputed (Covid-19) 14 2021-22 Racing de Santander 3-0 FC Andorra 15 2022-23 SD Amorebieta 3-0 0-2 Racing Club de Ferrol
Number of Wins (Groups) 5 Levante UD 1978/79, 1987/88, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1997/98 UD Salamanca 1987/88, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94, 2005/06 FC Barcelona B 1981/82, 1990/91, 1997/98, 2001/02, 2016/17 FC Cartagena 1991/92, 2005/06, 2008/09, 2017/18, 2019/20 Real Racing club de Santander 1990/91, 2013/14, 2015/16, 2018/19, 2021/22 4 Real Madrid Castilla 1990/91, 2004/05, 2011712, 2015/16 CD Alavés 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95, 2012/13 Cádiz CF 2000/01, 2008/09, 2011/12, 2014/15 3 Racing Club de Ferrol 1977/78, 1994/95, 2022/23 Barakaldo CF 1979/80, 1997/98, 2001/02 SD Eibar 1987/88, 2006/07, 2010/11 Atlético de Madrid B 1988/89, 2000/01, 2003/04 Universidad de Las Palmas 1999/00, 2002/03, 2005/06 SD Ponferradina 2004/05, 2007/08, 2009/10 Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa 1928/29, 1998/99, 2016/17 Albacete Balompié 1989/90, 2013/14, 2016/17 CD Atlético Baleares 2011/12, 2018/19, 2019/20 2 Athletic club de Bilbao B 1982/83, 1988/89 Xerex CD 1982/82, 1985/86 Granada CF 1982/83, 1999/00 CE Sabadell 1983/84, 2010/11 Rayo Vallecano 1984/85, 2007/08 Sestao River (Sestao SC) 1984/85, 2013/14 UE Lleida 1989/90, 2003/04 UE Sant Andreu 1991/92, 2009/10 UD Las Palmas 1992/93, 1995/96 Real Murcia CF 1992/93, 2010/11 UDA Gramenet 1993/94, 2000/01 Sporting de Gijón B 1995/96, 1996/97 Córdoba CF 1994/95, 1996/97 Gimnàstic de Tarragona 1996/97, 2014/15 Pontevedra CF 2003/04, 2006/07 Real Unión de Irún 2002/03, 2008/09 Alicante CF 2004/05, 2006/07 Sevilla FC B 2004/05, 2006/07 CD Tenerife 1986/87, 2012/13 RCD Mallorca 1980/81, 2017/18 CD Mirandés 2011/12, 2017/18 CD Castellón 2002/03, 2019/20 CD Badajoz 1990/91, 2020/21 Burgos CF 2000/01, 2020/21 Linares CF 1979/80, 2020/21 (Linares Deportivo) 1 UD Almeria 1977/78 Palencia CF 1978/79 RC Celta de Vigo 1980/81 Lorca CF 1983/84 UE Figueres 1985/86 Real Zaragoza B 1987/88 UD Alzira 1987/88 Palamós CF 1988/89 Real Avilés Industrial 1989/90 Orihuela CF 1989/90 Atlético Marbella 1991/92 CF Extremadura 1993/94 CD Aurrerá de Vitoria 1996/97 CP Cacereño 1997/98 Málaga CF 1997/98 UD Melilla 1998/99 Getafe CF 1998/99 RSG Torrelavega 1999/00 CF Gandía 1999/00 Motril CF 2001/02 Algeciras CF 2002/03 UD Lanzarote 2003/04 CF Badalona 2005/06 Écija Balompié 2007/08 CD Alcoyano 2008/09 AD Alcorcón 2009/10 Granada CF 2009/10 CD Lugo 2010/11 CE l´Hospitalet 2012/13 Real Jaén CF 2012/13 UE Llagostera 2013/14 Real Oviedo 2014/15 SD Huesca 2014/15 CF Reus Deportiu 2015/16 UCAM Murcia CF 2015/16 La Hoya Lorca CF 2016/17 CF Fuenlabrada 2018/19 Recreativo de Huelva 2018/19 UD Logroñés 2019/20 Real Sociedad B 2020/21 UD Ibiza 2020/21 FC Andorra 2021/22 SD Amorebieta 2022/23
Number of Wins (Absolute Champions)
1 Cádiz CF 2008/09 Granada CF 2009/10 Real Murcia 2010/11 Real Madrid Castilla 2011/12 CD Alavés 2012/13 Albacete Balompié 2013/14 Real Oviedo 2014/15 UCAM Murcia CF 2015/16 Cultural Leonesa 2016/17 RCD Mallorca 2017/18 CF Fuenlabrada 2018/19 Real Racing Club de Santander 2021/22 SD Amorebieta 2022/23
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