Tercera División


Founded | 1928–29 |
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Country | Spain |
Confederation | UEFA |
Number of teams | 363 |
Level on pyramid | 4 |
Promotion to | Segunda División B |
Relegation to | Divisiones Regionales |
Domestic cup(s) | Copa del Rey Copa Federación |
International cup(s) | UEFA Europa League (via winning Copa del Rey) |
Website | Official website |
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Groups of Tercera División
Tercera División (English: Third Division) is the fourth level of the Spanish football league system. The top three are the Primera División, often referred to as "La Liga" in English, the Segunda División, and Segunda División B.
Contents
1 Current format
2 History
2.1 Evolution of the Tercera División
2.2 Historical classification
2.3 Latest group champions and promoted teams
2.4 Records
3 External links
Current format
Since 2006, the Tercera División features 360 teams divided into 18 regional groups, corresponding to the Autonomous communities of Spain (due to its huge size, Andalusia is divided into two different groups, East and West; Ceuta is allocated to West Andalusia, while Melilla is allocated to the East). Each Group is administered by a regional football federation. At the end of the season the first four teams in each group qualify for promotion play-offs to decide which teams are promoted to Segunda División B. At least the three teams finishing bottom of each group may be relegated to the Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol. However the number of teams relegated can vary. The eighteen group champions also qualify for the following season's Copa del Rey. However reserve teams are ineligible. Along with teams from Segunda División B, the remaining teams from the division compete in the Copa Federación.
Since the 2008–09 season, the eighteen group winners have the opportunity to promote directly to the Segunda División B. The 18 group winners are drawn into a two-legged series where the nine winners promote to the Segunda División B. The nine losing clubs enter the playoff round for the last nine promotion spots.
The 18 runners-up are drawn against one of the seventeen fourth-place clubs outside their group and the 18 third-placed clubs are drawn against one another in a two-legged series. The twenty-seven winners advance with the nine losing clubs from the champions' series to determine the 18 teams that enter the last two-legged series for the last nine promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club plays at home first. Whenever there is a tie in position (like the group winners in the champions' series or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw determines the club to play at home first.
Group | Region | Winners (2017–18) | Relegation |
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1 | ![]() | Compostela | Preferente de Galicia |
2 | ![]() | Oviedo B | Preferente de Asturias |
3 | ![]() | Gimnástica Torrelavega | Preferente de Cantabria |
4 | ![]() | Durango | Basque lower levels |
5 | ![]() | Espanyol B | Primera Catalana |
6 | ![]() | Atlético Levante | Preferente Comunidad Valenciana |
7 | ![]() | Internacional | Preferente de Madrid |
8 | ![]() | Unionistas | Preferente de Castilla y León |
9 | ![]() ![]() | Atlético Malagueño | Primera Eastern Andaluza |
10 | ![]() ![]() | Cádiz B | Primera Western Andaluza |
11 | ![]() | Mallorca B | Preferente |
12 | ![]() | Tenerife B | Interinsular Preferente |
13 | ![]() | Yeclano | Preferente de Murcia |
14 | ![]() | Don Benito | Preferente de Extremadura |
15 | ![]() | Mutilvera | Preferente de Navarra |
16 | ![]() | Calahorra | Preferente de La Rioja |
17 | ![]() | Teruel | Preferente de Aragón |
18 | ![]() | Conquense | Preferente de Castilla-La Mancha |
History
During the inaugural La Liga season of 1928/29 a third level of teams known as Segunda División B was also organised. This division featured 10 teams and at the end of the season Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa were crowned champions. However the 1929/30 season saw the first of many reorganisations of the Spanish football league system and the Tercera Division was born. During its first season the division featured 33 teams divided into eight groups. The eight group winners qualified for a play-off and CD Castellón eventually beat Barakaldo CF 3-2 to be declared champions. The most significant reorganisation came at the start of the 1977/78 season with the revival of Segunda División B which replaced the Tercera División as the third level.
Evolution of the Tercera División
TierYears | 1928–50 | 1950–55 | 1955–68 | 1968–70 | 1970–77 | 1977–79 | 1979–80 | 1980–83 | 1983–86 | 1986–87 | 1987–89 | 1989–92 | 1992–04 | 2004–06 | 2006– |
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3 | 4 to 10 groups | 6 groups | 14 groups | 8 groups | 4 groups | Segunda División B | |||||||||
4 | Regional divisions | 6 groups | 8 groups | 13 groups | 14 groups | 16 groups | 17 groups | 17 groups +2 subgroups | 17 groups | 17 groups +2 subgroups | 18 groups |
Historical classification
The classification will be updated at the end of each season.
- Correct as end of 2017–18 season.
Bold indicates played in this level at 2017–18 season.- (†) indicates defunct teams.
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Latest group champions and promoted teams
In bold, group champions finally promoted to Segunda División B. Administrative promotions not included in this table.
Season | I X | II XI | III XII | IV XIII | V XIV | VI XV | VII XVI | VIII XVII | IX XVIII |
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2006–07 | Deportivo B | Caudal | Noja | Zalla | Reus | Dénia | RSD Alcalá | Mirandés | Granada Atlético |
Algeciras | Eivissa | Las Palmas B | Murcia B | Jerez | Valle de Egüés | Haro | Zaragoza B | Conquense | |
Other promoted teams: Girona (V), Sabadell (V), Gavà (V), Villarreal B (VI), Ontinyent (VI), Betis B (X), Lucena (X), San Isidro (XII), Villa de Santa Brígida (XII), Fuerteventura (XII), Mazarrón (XIII), Peña Sport (XIV), Guadalajara (XVIII) | |||||||||
2007–08 | Ciudad de Santiago | Oviedo | Gimn. Torrelavega | Portugalete | Barcelona B | Alzira | Ciempozuelos | Mirandés | Roquetas |
CD San Fernando | Atlético Baleares | Atlético Granadilla | Ciudad de Lorquí | Don Benito | Izarra | Alfaro | Ejea | Toledo | |
Other promoted teams: Sporting Gijón B (II), Racing Santander B (III), Sant Andreu (V), Valencia Mestalla (VI), Navalcarnero (VII), Antequera (IX), Linense (X), Peña Deportiva (XI), Las Palmas Atlético (XII), Sangonera (XIII), Murcia B (XIII), | |||||||||
2008–09 | Compostela | Oviedo | Gimn. Torrelavega | Lagun Onak | Espanyol B | Villajoyosa | RSD Alcalá | CF Palencia | Unión Estepona |
San Roque de Lepe | Mallorca B | Tenerife B | Caravaca | Cerro Reyes | Izarra | Varea | Atlético Monzón | Toledo | |
Other promoted teams: Mirandés (VIII), Sporting Mahonés (XI), Cacereño (XIV) | |||||||||
2009–10 | Deportivo B | Caudal | Noja | Real Sociedad B | L'Hospitalet | Gandía | Rayo Vallecano B | Burgos | At. Mancha Real |
Alcalá | Atlético Baleares | Corralejo | Jumilla CF | Badajoz | Tudelano | Oyonesa | Teruel | La Roda | |
Other promoted teams: Coruxo (I), Santboià (V), Alzira (VI), Getafe B (VII), Yeclano (XIII), Extremadura (XIV), Peña Sport (XV), La Muela (XVII) | |||||||||
2010–11 | Cerceda | Marino Luanco | Noja | Amorebieta | Llagostera | Valencia Mestalla | Alcobendas Sport | Burgos | Comarca de Níjar |
Linense | Manacor | Lanzarote | Costa Cálida | Villanovense | Tudelano | Náxara | Andorra | Toledo | |
Other promoted teams: Sestao River (IV), Reus (V), Olímpic (VI), SS Reyes (VII), Gimnástica Segoviana (VIII), Arandina (VIII), Sporting Villanueva (XIV), La Roda (XVIII) | |||||||||
2011–12 | Ourense | Caudal | Noja | Laudio | Prat | Catarroja | Fuenlabrada | Valladolid B | Loja |
At. Sanluqueño | Constància | Marino | Yeclano | Arroyo | Peña Sport | SD Logroñés | Ejea | Villarrobledo | |
Other promoted teams: Barakaldo (IV), San Fernando (X), Binissalem (XI), Izarra (XV), Tudelano (XV) | |||||||||
2012–13 | Racing Ferrol | Tuilla | Tropezón | Laudio | Olot | Elche Ilicitano | Puerta Bonita | Burgos | El Palo |
Algeciras | Peña Deportiva | Las Palmas Atlético | La Hoya Lorca | Extremadura | San Juan | Haro | Sariñena | Toledo | |
Other promoted teams: Celta Vigo B (I), Compostela (I), Granada B (IX), Conquense (XVIII) | |||||||||
2013–14 | Somozas | Lealtad | Gimn. Torrelavega | Leioa | Cornellà | Eldense | Trival Valderas | Valladolid B | Marbella |
Real Betis B | Mallorca B | Atlético Granadilla | UCAM Murcia | Villanovense | Izarra | Varea | Zaragoza B | Puertollano[N 1] | |
Other promoted teams: Langreo (II), Rayo Vallecano B (VII), At. Astorga (VIII), San Roque de Lepe (X), Socuéllamos (XVIII) | |||||||||
2014–15 | Pontevedra | Condal | Laredo | Portugalete | Ascó | Castellón | Rayo Majadahonda | Arandina | Linares |
Algeciras | Formentera | Mensajero | Jumilla | Mérida | Peña Sport | Varea | Ebro | Talavera de la Reina | |
Other promoted teams: Gernika (IV), Arenas (IV), Pobla de Mafumet (V), Atlético Levante (VI), Llosetense (XI), Izarra (XV) | |||||||||
2015–16 | Boiro | Caudal | Laredo | Zamudio | Prat | Atlético Saguntino | SS Reyes | Zamora | At. Mancha Real |
Córdoba B | Mallorca B | Villa de Santa Brígida | Lorca Deportiva | Extremadura | Osasuna B | Calahorra | Deportivo Aragón | Conquense | |
Other promoted teams: Gavà (V), Navalcarnero (VII), Palencia (VIII), El Ejido (IX), At. Sanluqueño (X), San Fernando (X), Mutilvera (XV) | |||||||||
2016–17 | Deportivo B | Sporting B | Gimn. Torrelavega | Alavés B | Olot | Olímpic | Atlético Madrid B | Gimn. Segoviana | Atlético Malagueño |
Real Betis B | Formentera | Las Palmas Atlético | Lorca Deportiva | Cacereño | Peña Sport | Calahorra | Deportivo Aragón | Talavera de la Reina | |
Other promoted teams: Rápido de Bouzas (I), Vitoria (IV), Ontinyent (VI), Unión Adarve (VII), Écija (X), Badajoz (XIV) | |||||||||
2017–18 | Compostela | Oviedo B | Gimn. Torrelavega | Cultural Durango | Espanyol B | Atlético Levante | Internacional | Unionistas | Atlético Malagueño |
Cádiz B | Mallorca B | Tenerife B | Yeclano | Don Benito | Mutilvera | Calahorra | Teruel | Conquense | |
Other promoted teams: Langreo (II), Castellón (VI), Salmantino (VIII), Almería B (IX), Atlético Sanluqueño (X), Ejea (XVII) |
^ Puertollano resigned to promotion due to financial difficulties.
Records
- Updated at the end of the 2017–18 season.
- Most seasons
- 65 – Murcia Imperial
- 61 – Arenas Getxo
- 56 – Constància
- Most points
- 2,753 – Don Benito (1.48 per game)
- 2,748 – Constància (1.43 per game)
- 2,666 – Murcia Imperial (1.28 per game)
- Most games played
- 2,082 – Murcia Imperial (32.03 per season)
- 2,076 – Arenas Getxo (34.03 per season)
- 1,980 – Europa (36.67 per season)
- Most wins
- 995 – Cacereño (56.47%)
- 959 – Constància (49.74%)
- 949 – Don Benito (51.02%)
- Most draws
- 583 – Arenas Getxo (28.08%)
- 490 – Murcia Imperial (23.53%)
- 489 – Baskonia (26.09%)
- Most losses
- 750 – Lemos (44.33%)
- 690 – Arenas Getxo (33.24%)
- 689 – Alaior (44.39%)
- Most goals scored
- 3,629 – Cacereño (2.06 per game)
- 3,591 – Murcia Imperial (1.72 per game)
- 3,440 – Racing Santander B (1.85 per game)
- Most games received
- 2,706 – Murcia Imperial (1.30 per game)
- 2,640 – Atlético Monzón (1.48 per game)
- 2,601 – Europa (1.31 per game)
- Most group titles
- 16 – Caudal
- Most promotion play-offs played
- 20 – Peña Sport, Atlético Baleares, Langreo, Don Benito
External links
- Official RFEF
Group for Spanish Football Statistics Compilation (in Spanish)- Map of Regions used in 2000-01
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