Regional Preferente de la Comunitat Valenciana

The Regional Preferente de la Comunitat Valenciana is one of the lower levels of the Spanish Football League. It is held every year. It stands at the fifth level of Spanish football with teams four promotions away from the top division. Teams from this league progress into the Tercera División group 6. The participating teams are based in the Valencia (autonomous community).

The League

The league consists of four regional groups of usually 18 teams each. Group 1 consists of teams in the province of Castellon and the Sagunto area of Valencia province, Group 2 teams in the Northern part of the province of Valencia, Group 3 teams in the Southern part of the province of Valencia and Group 4 teams from Alicante province.

Promotion & Relegation

*The first three teams in each group advance to the promotional playoffs. The twelve teams are paired into six playoff groups. In the first round: the four first-placed teams against the four third-placed teams and the two runners-up against the other two runners-up in home and away system with the clubs scoring the most goals advancing to the second round. The six winners are drawn into three more groups with the three winners being promoted to Tercera División-Group 6. The bottom three teams (16th-18th) in each group are relegated to the Primera Regional de la Comunitat Valenciana, which consists of seven regional groups. Feeding into the seven groups of the Primera Regional is the Segunda Regional which is split into fourteen groups.

Current teams 2008/09

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

External links

* [http://www.ffcv.es Valencian Comunity Football Federation ]

CD Javea - Peña Javeamigos [http://www.javeamigos.com]