LaLiga definitively rejects a Second with 24 teams

LaLiga has definitively rejected the proposal of the Royal Spanish Football Federation to establish a Second Division of 24 teams and save Deportivo and Numancia from relegation. He did it through a document accessed by AS, in which Javier Tebas forcefully answers the federative body and legally justifies the reasons why it is not feasible to change the number of clubs in the competition.

“They may consider said proposal as expressly rejected“LaLiga sentence, which also condemns the pressure to which it has been subjected in recent dates:”It is not the first time that LaLiga has been pressured by threats of lawsuits or resources on the occasion of having to adopt certain decisions. “Previously, the body led by Javier Tebas exposes a series of articles that prevent the viability of expanding the number of clubs in the Second Division.

Moreover, he criticizes the fact that the Federation has generated expectations in Deportivo and Numancia: “We still do not know who from the RFEF, or by virtue of what enabling title, makes the proposal to LaLiga. It is also surprising and we understand that it constitutes a total lack of loyalty or a very serious mistake, since it was perfectly known and predictable that keeping it out of the strictest confidentiality was going to generate desperate expectations in the Deportivo and Numancia clubs, inexorably classified in relegation places to Second Division B“.

Thus, for LaLiga the Second Division of the 2020-21 season is completely defined, with decreases of Extremadura, Racing, Numancia and Deportivo and the promotions of Castellón, Logroñés, Cartagena and Sabadell. The silver category would therefore remain at 22 teams in the season prior to the remodeling of non-professional football, which will take place in 2021-22 with the arrival of the Second B Pro. However, the soap opera has not yet finished since the RFEF resolution on the file opened to Fuenlabrada, the possible intervention of the CSD and the ordinary justice as a last resort remains to be known.