The First RFEF changed its name this Friday

The new season of First RFEFwhose new name will be announced this Friday at 12 noon and the championship will start next weekend, will have, in its Group 1, the largest presence of clubs Castile and León in its short history, after it was created in 2021 after the disappearance of the Second Division B. The Barça Atlètic hosts Real Unión de Irún on Sunday (8 pm) on the first day of Group 1.

In total, there will be five teams from the Community competing in the league after the promotion of Zamora, which regained its lost category, and the arrival of Gimnástica Segoviana. They join already active Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, Unionistas de Salamanca and SD Ponferradina, the latter having failed in the promotion phase in their attempt to return to the Second Division.

In principle, the three teams that already competed in the First RFEF last season are among the candidates for the noble zone of the classification and even follow in the footsteps of RC Deportivowho were the only group 1 team to achieve the goal last season.

For his part, the Zamorawith the new owners, has also developed an ambitious project, in sporting and economic terms, to try to establish itself in the third category, while the goal of Gimnástica Segoviana, which has doubts about its ability to face the jump , is to find permanence which is always complicated because up to five teams go to each of the two groups.

Castilla y León is surpassed only in the group in terms of the representation of teams from the Basque Country, with six teams – the affiliates of Real Sociedad, Athletic Club, Amorebieta, Real Unión, Sestao and Barakaldo -, while the Galicia will have four clubs -Arentenido, Celta Fortuna, Ourense and Lugo-; Catalonia two -FC Barcelona Atlético and Gimnastic de Tarragona-; and Navarra -Osasuna B-, Aragón -Tarazona- and the Principality -Andorra- with one each.