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Royal Football Federation of the Principality of Asturias
RFEF
Founded1915
PresidentJosé Ramón Cuetos Lobo
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 José Ramón Cuetos Lobo.[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.

Season Champion Runner-up Other promoted teams
1990–91 Caudal Hispano Mosconia
1991–92 Lealtad Caudal
1992–93 Caudal Lealtad Langreo
1993–94 Caudal Siero
1994–95 Caudal Siero
1995–96 Titánico Oviedo B Marino Luanco
1996–97 Siero Navia Caudal
1997–98 Lealtad Universidad Oviedo
1998–99 Marino Luanco Siero
1999–00 Lealtad Siero Universidad Oviedo
2000–01 Marino Luanco Oviedo B
2001–02 Langreo Avilés Ribadesella
2002–03 Caudal Titánico
2003–04 Oviedo Oviedo ACF Marino Luanco
2004–05 Oviedo Ribadesella
2005–06 Universidad Oviedo Langreo
2006–07 Caudal Lealtad
2007–08 Oviedo Sporting Gijón B
2008–09 Oviedo Universidad Oviedo
2009–10 Caudal Marino Luanco
2010–11 Marino Luanco Universidad Oviedo
2011–12 Caudal Avilés[a]
2012–13 Tuilla Universidad Oviedo
2013–14 Lealtad Langreo
2014–15 Condal Caudal
2015–16 Caudal Langreo
2016–17 Sporting Gijón B Avilés
2017–18 Oviedo B Langreo
2018–19 Lealtad Marino Luanco
2019–20 Lealtad Llanera Covadonga
2020–21 Ceares Llanera Avilés
2021–22 Oviedo Vetusta Sporting Gijón B
2022–23 Covadonga Sporting Gijón B
2023–24 Llanera Sporting Atlético
  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
José Ramón Cuetos Lobo

International referees from the RFFPA

References

  1. ^ Junta Directiva de la RFFPA
  2. ^ Una Federación Real Royal Asturias Football Federation