Community football is gold

In this next football season that starts in the month of August, there will be four representatives of the earthly in the Spanish elite. The double historical turnout reached by Levant And Elche “That next to one Villarreal of champions and the sustainability of a Valencia That he had one and a half feet – he will return to the Valencian community as one of the autonomies with the most presence in the first division, 20% of the participating, Valencian teams.

In 2025-26, only the community of Madrid will be equal to the figure of the four Valencians with Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Rayo Vallecano and Getafe, and the earth will leave rivals of these specific statistics, which are also the other autonomies that have more than one representative. We talk about the Basque Country, with Athletic Club, Real Sociedad and Deportivo Alavés; Catalonia with Barcelona, ​​Espanyol and Girona; O Andalusia with Seville and Betis, who could add to Almería if he succeeded in promoting in the promotion play-off in which Oviedo, Racing de Santander and Mirandés also participate.

Valencian football will therefore be gold, something we had become used to in the last one and a half decade, because this will be the seventh historic season in which four teams of the community are collected in Primera. This Ephemeris was first reached in the 1945-46 course and with a lot of merit, since then the competition was only 14 teams, so 28.5% of the participants were of the earth. That year they were Valencia” Castellón” Hercules And Alcoyanowho represent the three provinces. From almost half a century, however, it had to be expected to repeat the image. It was in 2010-11, in which Valencia” Villarreal” Levant And Hercules They enjoyed a Valencian twinning in the elite of Spanish football.

And a normality began that we have accepted as usual, but that is not easy to achieve. In 2013-14 and 2014-15, Elche replaced his Alicante rivals and was reinforced as the fourth team of the community in the first time. The same quartet entered the gold category in 2020-21 in 2020-21, although the pandemic conditions with semi-vacios phases complicated and many the usual ‘Germanor’ on travel and traveling nearby. The 2021-22 repeated with the Fantastic Four and after three seasons with little representation and with Valencia flirting with the descent-next 2025-26 course, four Valencians will again have in the first, for the seventh time in the history of the competition.

In the historical ranking, the Valencia It is the fourth Spanish team with more seasons in Primera. This that has just been concluded has been the 90s and will reach 91 with the threatening. The second place was a long time Elchewho remained in 24 and adds his number 25 with the climb, but while spending time in the silver category, the Villarreal He has been strengthened as a national national and has already added 25 campaigns in the elite, the next number 26.

He Hercules For decade and a half ago he does not get to the highest category, but historically he has been in it 20 times. Behind him the LevantWho after rising as a second champion, will add his 17th season in the first year. He CastellónAnother historical that does not play in the elite since he descended in 1990-91-even has the third division reasons 11 campaigns in the first, many of them led in the forty. Finally appears AlcoyanoThat in the same decade the heaven of Spanish football hit on 4 different occasions.

The fact that many teams of the same autonomy are collected is a clear reflection of the evolution of Spanish football, for which the clubs in the richest areas of the country usually play the first division. The lived -in Spain teams hardly survive through the categories of silver and bronze, with the dream of reaching the elite one day, even for a season. The largest population cores are those who bring together the most teams in the same area.

Historical bronze in the total number of teams in the first

A total of 63 teams in the history of Spanish football have reached the first division for at least one season. It is a privileged list, which always contains the same names, but in which the clubs of the Valencian community have a special place. Of those 63, Seven are Valencians: Valencia, Villarreal, Elche, Hercules, Levante, Castellón and Alcooyano. In total, these seven Terreta teams are placed on a third step of a certain historical stage that leads Andalusia.

The southern community is the one who has had the most clubs in the highest category, with a total of ten with Seville, Betis, Córdoba, Cádiz, recreation of Huelva, Granada, Xerez, Real Jaén, Málaga and Almería. Although they can be counted technically as twelve, because the last two have played two ways and with two different names – CD Malaga and Malaga CF next to Ad Almería and Ud Almería – in the elite before and after their re -foundations and mergers.

The second of the classification due to the number of different clubs appears in the first Catalonia With eight representatives. Barcelona and Espanyol are two of the historic of our football, but they have also accompanied Girona, Nástic de Tarragona, Sabadell or Lleida. Moreover, they enjoy two curious cases such as Europe, a team of Barri de Gràcia, founder of Spanish football and played the first three inaugural seasons of the first. To them, the case is added of CD Condal, a team that played a single campaign in the elite, the 1956-57, and that ten years later became the subsidiary of Barcelona.

In the third step, the community with the aforementioned seven teams appears, and follows behind it The Basque Country. In Euskadi there have been six different representatives in the first place: Athletic Club, Real Sociedad, Deportivo Alavés, Eibar, Arenas de GetXO and Real Union of Irún, the last two are also of the first teams that have fed us football, although they have become modest in the present.

Madrid He had five with Real Madrid, Atlético, Rayo Vallecano, Getafe and Leganés, who come together several times in the same campaign. The same figure that Castilla Y LeónWho as Andalusia can be said that it has had six: Valladolid, Cultural Leonesa, Salamanca, Numancia and Burgos, the last twice as real Burgos and the re -founded Burgos Cf.

Three autonomies share the record of five clubs together

The historical record remains five teams of the same autonomy in the same season. The Basque Country, in 1930-31 and 1931-32, had Royal Union of Irún, Arenas de Getxo, Athletic Club, Real Sociedad and Deportivo Alavés.

Andalusia brought Sevilla, Betis, Malaga, Granada and Córdoba together in 1971-72. These five repeated in 2014-15. In 2008-09 they were the same and the last two changed for recreation of Huelva and Almería. And in 2013-14 the combination was Sevilla, Betis, Malaga, Granada and Almería.

Madrid, three times (2018-19, 2023-24 and 2024-25) has become a member of Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Rayo Vallecano, Getafe and Leganés. The Castellón could burden the community on this list.