The end of the 2025-26 season has sealed the promotions to the First Division for Málaga, returning after eight years, and to the Second Division for Celta Fortuna and Sabadell. These movements have left teams like Almería, Ponferradina, and Zamora out of the elite, thus shaping the new structure of Spanish football for the 2026-27 season.
The top tier will feature twenty teams distributed geographically. The Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community lead with four representatives each. The Basque Country contributes three, while Andalusia will have three clubs in the elite. Other regions such as Catalonia, Galicia, Cantabria, and Navarre complete the list for the First Division.
Among the most notable novelties is the return of historic clubs like Deportivo de La Coruña, twelve years later, and Racing de Santander, which restores representation to Cantabria. Galicia and Catalonia will each have two teams, although the latter loses weight with Girona's relegation. On the other hand, Asturias will be without a team in the First Division after Oviedo's descent.
An unprecedented situation since the 1996-97 season will be the total absence of teams from the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands in the First Division. The community of Aragon faces its worst sporting moment, with no representation in professional football after the relegation of Zaragoza and Huesca to Primera RFEF, something that had not happened in decades. In total, nine autonomous communities and the two autonomous cities will not have a presence in the top category.
The Second Division, known as LaLiga Hypermotion, will host 22 teams from eleven communities, one autonomous city, and Andorra. Andalusia will be the most represented community with four teams: Almería, Córdoba, Granada, and Cádiz. The league will see the return of regional derbies such as the Canarian (Tenerife vs. Las Palmas) and the Asturian (Oviedo and Sporting). Furthermore, the presence of Celta Fortuna will mean having two reserve teams in the Second Division for the first time since the 2017-18 season.
The Primera Federación, Spain's third tier of football, will feature 40 teams divided into two groups. Group 1 will bring together clubs from the north and west of the peninsula, including Galicia, Castilla y León, Basque Country, Extremadura, Asturias, and La Rioja. Group 2 will gather teams from the south and east, with representation from Andalusia, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, Murcia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. Historic clubs such as Mirandés, Ponferradina, Zamora, Cultural Leonesa, Real Zaragoza, and SD Huesca will compete in this division.
The 2026-27 season will officially kick off on June 30th with the calendar draw at the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas. The calendar presentation will take place simultaneously in Madrid's Plaza de Colón, an open event where all official football and futsal competition calendars, for both men's and women's categories, will be unveiled.
