The clubs that make up the First RFEF have voted this afternoon the division of the two groups for the 2022-2023 season. Deportivo and Racing de Ferrol will face each other with clubs from Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Ceuta and the Community of Madrid, in addition to its neighbors in southern Galicia, Pontevedra and Celta B.
Deportivo and Racing de Ferrol will not have it easy at all. Both teams were very close to going up to Second after a great season, and to get closer to the goal again they will have to face off against some of the toughest teams in the category.
Alcorcon and Fuenlabrada It will be the two strongest clubs, since they have just been relegated from the Second Division and will have a high budget. Another team from Madrid that will be difficult to beat is the Castilla of Raúl, who finished tenth last season in Group 2, but only four points from the playoff.
From that same group also comes the Linaresclub that he finished the season in a great moment and got to play the playoff against Deportivo. The Coruñeses won 4-0, but the Andalusians had a great first half and the match was more even than the scoreboard reflected. The other two Andalusian clubs to take into account are Algeciras, which was very close to entering the playoffsand the Córdoba, a historic club in reconstruction with the desire to return to the elite.
The representatives of Castilla y León are two old acquaintances, the Cultural Leonesa and the Unionists. The people from Salamanca should be more dangerous after the good season they had, staying one point away from the playoffs.
In Galicia, Deportivo and Racing de Ferrol will have to visit the Celtic B and Pontevedra. The Celestes were left without a playoff in the last minutes and they will want to remove that thorn stuck. The garnets return to the bronze category and will try to put together a team to fight for the possibility of promotion.
A duel full of morbidity
The great curiosity will take place with the confrontation between Sports and Fuenlabrada. The Madrid team caused a lot of controversy for traveling to A Coruña with covid, causing the duel to be suspended and that Deportivo could not play for salvation at the same time as their rivals.
Now, two years after that incident, both teams will face each other in the bronze category of Spanish football. In their last match, Deportivo won 2-1 and left Fuenlabrada without a playoff for promotion to First Division. The people of Madrid touched the sky with their fingers in that game in which they came to win 0-1, but Dépor came back and that’s where their path to hell began in the First RFEF.
What will be the second season in the history of the First RFEF It will begin on the last weekend of August and will run until June 25, 2023, the date on which the promotion playoff will end, which recovers the round-trip knockout format.
