Segunda División

history

,Spain | founded = 1929 | teams = 22 | promotion = La Liga | relegation = Segunda División B | levels = 2 | champions = Xerez CD | season = 2008–09 | most successful club = Málaga CFCD Málaga
(13 promotions) | sponsorship_name = Liga Adelante | tv = Canal+ Liga, GolT, FORTA | website = »http://www.lfp.es | current = 2009–10 season }} The Segunda División (Second Division) is the lower tier of the two professional leagues in Spain consisting of 22 teams. On 16 August, 2006, the LFP reached an agreement with the banking group BBVA for sponsorship of the Segunda División renaming the league Liga BBVA. From the season 2008-09 onwards, the name of the league is Liga Adelante.

History

  • This championship was created in 1929 and has always been organized by the LFP.

  • Currently the Segunda División consists of 22 clubs.

  • The top goalscorer of the 2008–09 season was the current CD Tenerife player Nino.

  • On 4 June 2008, the league was renamed from Liga BBVA to Liga Adelante.

Competition system

It is very similar to the Primera División:

The top three are promoted to La Liga.

The bottom four are relegated to Segunda División B.

Segunda División seasons

{| class="wikitable" |- !Season !Champions !Runner Up !Other teams promoted |- |- align="center" |28-29 ||Sevilla (not promoted)||Real Zaragoza (not promoted) |- align="center" |29-30 ||Alavés||Sporting Gijon (not promoted) |- align="center" |30-31 ||Valencia||Sevilla (not promoted) |- align="center" |31-32 ||Real Betis||Real Oviedo (not promoted) |- align="center" |32-33 ||Real Oviedo||Atlético Madrid (not promoted) |- align="center" |33-34 ||Sevilla||Atlético Madrid |- align="center" |34-35 ||Hércules||Osasuna |- align="center" |35-36 ||Celta de Vigo||Real Zaragoza |- align="center" |39-40 ||Real Murcia||Deportivo La Coruña |- align="center" |40-41 ||Granada||Real Sociedad||Castellón and Deportivo La Coruña |- align="center" |41-42 ||Real Betis||Real Zaragoza |- align="center" |42-43 ||Sabadell||Real Sociedad |- align="center" |43-44 ||Sporting de Gijón||Real Murcia |- align="center" |44-45 ||Alcoyano||Hércules||Celta de Vigo |- align="center" |45-46 ||Sabadell||Deportivo La Coruña |- align="center" |46-47 ||Alcoyano||Gimnàstic de Tarragona||Real Sociedad |- align="center" |47-48 ||Real Valladolid||Deportivo La Coruña |- align="center" |48-49 ||Real Sociedad||Málaga |- align="center" !Season !Northern Group Winner !Southern Group Winner !Other teams promoted |- align="center" |49-50 ||Racing de Santander||Alcoyano||Lleida and Real Murcia |- align="center" |50-51 ||Sporting de Gijón||Moghreb Athletic Tétouan||Real Zaragoza and Las Palmas |- align="center" |51-52 ||Real Oviedo||Málaga |- align="center" |52-53 ||Osasuna||Real Jaén |- align="center" |53-54 ||Deportivo Alavés||Las Palmas||Hércules and Málaga |- align="center" |54-55 ||Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa||Real Murcia |- align="center" |55-56 ||Osasuna||Real Jaén||Real Zaragoza and Condal |- align="center" |56-57 ||Sporting de Gijón||Granada |- align="center" |57-58 ||Real Oviedo||Real Betis |- align="center" |58-59 ||Real Valladolid||Elche |- align="center" |59-60 ||Racing de Santander||Mallorca |- align="center" |60-61 ||Osasuna||Tenerife |- align="center" |61-62 ||Deportivo La Coruña||Córdoba||Real Valladolid and Málaga |-align="center" |62-63 ||Pontevedra||Real Murcia||Levante and Espanyol |- align="center" |63-64 ||Deportivo La Coruña||Las Palmas |- align="center" |64-65 ||Pontevedra||Mallorca||Sabadell and Málaga |- align="center" |65-66 ||Deportivo La Coruña||Hércules||Granada |- align="center" |66-67 ||Real Sociedad||Málaga||Real Betis |- align="center" |67-68 ||Deportivo La Coruña||Granada |- align="center" ! Season ! Champions ! Runner Up ! Other teams promoted |- align="center" |68-69 ||Sevilla||Celta de Vigo||Mallorca |- align="center" |69-70 ||Sporting de Gijón||Málaga||Espanyol |- align="center" |70-71 ||Real Betis||Burgos||Deportivo La Coruña and Córdoba |- align="center" |71-72||Real Oviedo||Castellón||Real Zaragoza |- align="center" |72-73||Real Murcia||Elche||Racing de Santander |- align="center" |73-74||Real Betis||Hércules||Salamanca |- align="center" |74-75||Real Oviedo||Racing de Santander||Sevilla |- align="center" |75-76||Burgos||Celta de Vigo||Málaga |- align="center" |76-77||Sporting de Gijón||Cádiz||Rayo Vallecano |- align="center" |77-78||Real Zaragoza||Recreativo de Huelva||Celta de Vigo |- align="center" |78-79||Almería||Málaga||Real Betis |- align="center" |79-80||Real Murcia||Real Valladolid||Osasuna |- align="center" |80-81||Castellón||Cádiz||Racing de Santander |- align="center" |81-82||Celta de Vigo||Salamanca||Málaga |- align="center" |82-83||Real Murcia||Cádiz||Mallorca |- align="center" |83-84||Castilla (not promoted due to being Real Madrid's reserve team)||Bilbao Athletic (not promoted due to being Athletic Bilbao's reserve team)||Hércules, Racing de Santander and Elche |- align="center" |84-85||Las Palmas||Cádiz||Celta de Vigo |- align="center" |85-86||Real Murcia||Sabadell||Mallorca |- align="center" |86-87||Valencia||Logroñés||Celta de Vigo |- align="center" |87-88||Málaga||Elche||Real Oviedo |- align="center" |88-89||Castellón||Rayo Vallecano||Mallorca and Tenerife |- align="center" |89-90||Real Burgos||Real Betis||Espanyol |- align="center" |90-91||Albacete Balompié||Deportivo La Coruña |- align="center" |91-92||Celta de Vigo||Rayo Vallecano |- align="center" |92-93||Lleida||Real Valladolid||Racing de Santander |- align="center" |93-94||Espanyol||Real Betis||Compostela |- align="center" |94-95||Mérida||Rayo Vallecano||Salamanca |- align="center" |95-96||Hércules||Logroñés||Extremadura |- align="center" |96-97||Mérida||Salamanca||Mallorca |- align="center" |97-98||Deportivo Alavés||Extremadura||Villarreal |- align="center" |98-99||Málaga||Atlético Madrid B (not promoted due to being Atlético Madrid's reserve team)||Numancia, Sevilla and Rayo Vallecano |- align="center" |99-00||Las Palmas||Osasuna||Villarreal |- align="center" |00-01||Sevilla||Real Betis||Tenerife |- align="center" |01-02||Atlético Madrid||Racing de Santander||Recreativo de Huelva |- align="center" |02-03||Real Murcia||Real Zaragoza||Albacete Balompié |- align="center" |03-04||Levante||Numancia||Getafe |- align="center" |04-05||Cádiz||Celta de Vigo||Deportivo Alavés |- align="center" |05-06||Recreativo de Huelva||Gimnàstic de Tarragona||Levante |- align="center" |06-07||Real Valladolid||Almería||Real Murcia |- align="center" |07-08||Numancia||Málaga||Sporting de Gijón |- align="center" |08-09||Xerez||Real Zaragoza||Tenerife |- align="center" |}

2009–10 Teams

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Promoted to 2009/10 La Liga

Relegated from 2009/10 La Liga

  • Betis 18th
  • Numancia 19th
  • Recreativo 20th

Relegated to 2009/10 Segunda División B

  • Alavés 19th
  • Alicante 20th
  • Eibar 21st
  • Sevilla Atlético 22nd

Promoted from Segunda División B

2009–10 Stadia

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Home Club !Stadium Name !Capacity |- |style="text-align:left;"|Betis||Manuel Ruiz de Lopera||51,309 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Elche||Manuel Martínez Valero||38,750 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Murcia||Nueva Condomina||33,045 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Celta Vigo||Balaídos||32,500 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Las Palmas||Gran Canaria||32,500 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Real Sociedad||Estadio Anoeta|| 32,500 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Hércules||José Rico Pérez||30,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Levante||Ciudad de Valencia||25,354 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Cádiz||Ramón de Carranza||22,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Recreativo||Nuevo Colombino||21,670 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Castellón||Nou Castalia||18,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Salamanca||El Helmántico||17,341 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Albacete||Carlos Belmonte||17,300 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Córdoba||Nuevo Arcángel||15,425 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Cartagena||Cartagonova||15,105 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Rayo Vallecano||Teresa Rivero||15,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Gimnàstic||Nou Estadi||14,500 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Numancia||Los Pajaritos||10,200 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Huesca||El Alcoraz||8,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Girona||Montilivi||7,500 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Real Unión||Stadium Gal||5,000 |- |style="text-align:left;"|Villarreal B||Ciudad Deportiva||5,000 |}

Footnotes

See also

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