Royal Football Federation of the Principality of Asturias
RFEF
Founded1915
PresidentMaximino Martínez
Websitewww.asturfutbol.es

The Royal Football Federation of the Principality of Asturias (Spanish: Real Federación de Fútbol del Principado de Asturias; RFFPA) is the federation responsible for managing association football in the Principality of Asturias. Its current president is Maximino Martínez Suárez.[1]

RFFPA manages Asturian leagues from Tercera División (Group 2) to the Regional lower divisions, the Regional stage of the Copa Federación and the Autonomous team, which plays in the UEFA Regions' Cup.

History

The current RFFPA started in 1913 with the creation of the first autonomous federation. It consisted of six teams and has been chaired by several presidents.

On 21 December, in that same year, the RFFPA received the official backing of the Spanish Football Federation, authorizing the use by the newly created body Cantabrian Federation of Football Club. On 22 November 1916, the Spanish Federation decided that Santander resign from the Northern Federation and be integrated into the Cantabrian Federation, until 1918 when it returned to its former Federation, with 28 May of that year being when the Assembly National Federation agreed to change the name of the Cantabrian Federation of Asturian Regional Federation of Football Clubs.

On 30 June 1919 due to the reform of its Constitution and Bylaws, the RFFPA expands its sports district to join the federation the provinces of León, Palencia and later those of Zamora and Burgos. It changed its name on 6 August 1933 to the Asturian Federation Cup, and in May 1941 to underwent a new transformation to become Astur-Montañesa Federation Cup, which governed the sport in good order the provinces of Asturias, León, Palencia, Santander, Burgos, Zamora and Salamanca, until at last, in 1952, the RFFPA was restored to the Asturian Federation denomination with only the province of Asturias.

In 1985, under Decree 71/1985 of the Concierge of Education, Culture and Sport, RFFPA becomes the current Football Federation of Asturias. This was the most important date in recent years because it allowed the acquisition of legal personality to enable a territorial assembly legislation, which since 1986 has stipulated that its own Rules and Regulations, whose obvious advantages are reflected in the processes arising from natural or legal persons who depend on our territorial federative organization, the ETF, solely and exclusively on those competitions in excess of the Asturias principality territory.

The average weekly meetings are 500, which in quantity are very difficult to overcome in terms of the population of the region. Appearing in recent years are new forms of soccer like futbol 7 and women's soccer, as well as the specialty of indoor football, which have gained important steps to become fully integrated into the organization and the federal competition entity with the power and sufficient conditions equal to the rest of the members.

As regards to its coaching staff, there are the School Committee of Referees, Coaches and School Committee, indoor football Referees Technical Committee, which are well targeted and developed within the organization's Regulations. It is fair to point out the synchronism between them and the Federation itself, with optimal results in the operation of schools by holding regular courses and degrees resulting in both coaches and referees.

Since April 1977 HRH Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias,[2] holds the honorary presidency of the Football Federation of Asturias.

Competitions

The Royal Asturias Football Federation organises the following competitions:

Champions

Tercera División

In bold, champions and runners-up that promoted to Segunda División B.

SeasonChampionRunner-upOther promoted teams
1990–91CaudalHispanoMosconia
1991–92LealtadCaudal
1992–93CaudalLealtadLangreo
1993–94CaudalSiero
1994–95CaudalSiero
1995–96TitánicoOviedo BMarino Luanco
1996–97SieroNaviaCaudal
1997–98LealtadUniversidad Oviedo
1998–99Marino LuancoSiero
1999–00LealtadSieroUniversidad Oviedo
2000–01Marino LuancoOviedo B
2001–02LangreoAvilésRibadesella
2002–03CaudalTitánico
2003–04OviedoOviedo ACFMarino Luanco
2004–05OviedoRibadesella
2005–06Universidad OviedoLangreo
2006–07CaudalLealtad
2007–08OviedoSporting Gijón B
2008–09OviedoUniversidad Oviedo
2009–10CaudalMarino Luanco
2010–11Marino LuancoUniversidad Oviedo
2011–12CaudalAvilés[lower-alpha 1]
2012–13TuillaUniversidad Oviedo
2013–14LealtadLangreo
2014–15CondalCaudal
2015–16CaudalLangreo
2016–17Sporting Gijón BAvilés
2017–18Oviedo BLangreo
2018–19LealtadMarino Luanco
2019–20LealtadLlaneraCovadonga
2020–21CearesLlaneraAvilés
  1. Later promoted after buying a vacant place.

Notable clubs affiliated with RFFPA

Segunda División
Segunda División B
Segunda División Pro (women)
Primera Nacional (women)

Presidents

Presidente
Fernando Fernández Quirós
Enrique Guisasola
Víctor Felgueroso
Luis Fernández Reguero
Andrés Avelino Blanco
Julián Ayesta
Vicente Roque Piñole
Fernando Arroyo
Luis Blanc
Ceferino San Martín
Francisco Alonso León
Claudio Martín
Elías Lucio de Tapia
Celso García Gutiérrez
Guillermo Menéndez Coto
Manuel Vega-Arango
Maximino Martínez Suárez

International referees from the RFFPA

References

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