The 2023 Segunda Federación play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoción de Ascenso) are the final play-offs for promotion from 2022–23 Segunda Federación to the 2023–24 Primera Federación.
Format Twenty teams participated in the promotion play-off. Each of the five groups of the Segunda División RFEF were represented by the four teams that finished the regular season between the second and fifth positions. In the draw for the first stage, the participating teams were assigned to pots corresponding to their final regular season position. While avoiding matches between teams from the same regular season group, second-place finishers were drawn against fifth-place finishers while teams that finished third would play teams that finished fourth. The same draw process was repeated, to the extent that it would be possible, in the draw for the second round.
The five winning clubs of the second stage attained promotion to Primera RFEF and accompanied the five group champions who had already achieved their promotion.
The final two relegation spots (of 27 total) were also determined via play-offs. The four 13th-place finishers with the lowest point totals were drawn into two single-leg matches, with the winners securing survival in the Segunda División RFEF and the losers being relegated to the Tercera División RFEF. The two match-ups were selected through a random draw and hosted at a venue chosen from among the stadiums selected to host the promotion play-offs.
As of this season, the RFEF recovered the two-legged knockout system, due to the complaints filed against the single knockout system at a neutral venue that had been implemented after COVID-19 and the subsequent reform of the football leagues organized by the RFEF.
Promotion play-offs
Teams
Participating teams Alavés B Atlético Madrid B Atlético Sanluqueño Avilés Industrial Cacereño Compostela Espanyol B Gernika Gimnástica Segoviana Manresa Navalcarnero Peña Deportiva Recreativo Granada Recreativo Huelva Tarazona UCAM Murcia Utebo Valencia Mestalla Valladolid Promesas Zamora
Road to the play-offs
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
First round
Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam1 2ndAvilés Industrial2 2ndAlavés B3 2ndPeña Deportiva4 2ndRecreativo Huelva5 2ndAtlético Madrid B
GroupPositionTeam1 3rdValladolid Promesas2 3rdTarazona3 3rdValencia Mestalla4 3rdRecreativo Granada5 3rdNavalcarnero
GroupPositionTeam1 4thCompostela2 4thUtebo3 4thManresa4 4thAtlético Sanluqueño5 4thCacereño
GroupPositionTeam1 5thZamora2 5thGernika3 5thEspanyol B4 5thUCAM Murcia5 5thGimnástica Segoviana
Bold indicates teams that advanced to the second round
Matches
First leg
Second leg
Second round
Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam1 2ndAvilés Industrial2 2ndAlavés B4 2ndRecreativo Huelva5 2ndAtlético Madrid B
GroupPositionTeam2 3rdTarazona4 3rdRecreativo Granada5 3rdNavalcarnero
GroupPositionTeam4 4thAtlético Sanluqueño5 4thCacereño
GroupPositionTeam4 5thUCAM Murcia
Bold indicates teams that were promoted
Matches
First leg
Second leg
Atlético Madrid B promoted because they won the away goal against UCAM Murcia
Recreativo Huelva promoted because they won the away goal against Cacereño
Promoted teams The five teams that were or would be promoted to Primera Federación through regular season groups and the five play-off winners were included. The number of years after the last participation of the club in the third tier is referred to the previous appearance at that level, where Segunda División B was replaced by the Primera Federación. Promoted to Primera FederaciónGroup 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5Arenteiro (1st) (1st)Teruel (1st)Antequera (1st)Melilla (1st)Tarazona (3rd)Recreativo Huelva (2nd)Atlético Madrid B (2nd)Recreativo Granada (3rd)Atlético Sanluqueño (4th)
Relegation play-offs
Table of 13th-placed teams
Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam1 13thOurense2 13thBeasain3 13thDeportivo Aragón5 13thCoria
Matches
Relegated to Tercera FederaciónBeasainCoria
Relegated teams 27 teams relegated to Tercera Federación: 25 teams through regular season groups and the two play-off losers. The numbers of years after the last relegation are referred to the last participation of the club in Tercera División or Tercera Federación if the team was promoted one year ago.
Relegated to Tercera FederaciónCristo AtléticoCirboneroPratXerez DeportivoLeganés BLaredoAlfaroOlotEl EjidoAlcorcón BBurgos PromesasUD Logroñés BIbiza Islas PitiusasJuventud TorremolinosDiocesanoPolvorínRacing RiojaMallorca BAtlético Mancha RealSocuéllamos BergantiñosArnedoEbroUtreraDon BenitoCoria Beasain
References
External links Royal Spanish Football Federation website