The Catalan football championship of Second Category was the second division of the Catalan football championship, which gave access to compete in the top category.
History Both its name and its competition format varied over the years. Thus, in the early years, the second-tier clubs contested in the Junior Championship, and the top-tier played in the Senior Championship. In the 1912–13 season, this category was called the Second League. The following season, the category was called the Second Category.
In the 1917–18 season, the category was renamed as Campionat de Catalunya B (or Primera B), and was contested by 6 clubs in a league format, with the champions playing a promotion match against the last-qualified team in Primera A, in order to achieve promotion. In 1928, however, it was renamed the "Second Category Preferent" and was contested by 12 clubs divided into three groups of four, with the five best teams in the second division competing against the three worst teams in the first division in a promotion play-off. This system remained more or less stable until the 1934–35 season, when it reverted to the name of Primera B, contested by 18 teams in 3 groups. It disappeared in 1940.
Winners Season Denomination Champion 1906–1907 (Details) Junior Championship FC Espanya 1907–1908 (Details) Junior Championship 1908–1909 (Details) Junior Championship FC Central 1909–1910 (Details) Junior Championship FC Numància 1910–1911 (Details) Junior Championship FC Numància 1911–1912 (Details) Junior Championship FC Internacional 1912–1913 (Details) Second League FC Internacional (FCCF) F.C. T.B.H. (FAC) 1913–1914 (Details) Second Category Sabadell FC 1914–1915 (Details) Second Category Atlético de Sabadell 1915–1916 (Details) Second Category Terrassa 1916–1917 (Details) Second Category Alfonso XIII de Palma 1917–1918 (Details) First Category B CS de Sants () 1918–1919 (Details) First Category B CE Europa 1919–1920 (Details) First Category B L'Avenç del Sport 1920–1921 (Details) First Category B L'Avenç del Sport 1921–1922 (Details) First Category B FC Espanya 1922–1923 (Details) First Category B Martinenc 1923–1924 (Details) First Category B Terrassa 1924–1925 (Details) First Category B Júpiter 1925–1926 (Details) First Category B Badalona 1926–1927 (Details) First Category B Gimnàstic de Tarragona 1927–1928 (Details) First Category B Júpiter 1928–1929 (Details) Second Category Preferent Júpiter 1929–1930 (Details) Second Category Preferent Sabadell FC 1930–1931 (Details) Second Category Preferent Martinenc 1931–1932 (Details) Second Category Preferent Sants 1932–1933 (Details) Second Category Preferent Granollers 1933–1934 (Details) Second Category Preferent Sants 1934–1935 (Details) First Category B Granollers 1935–1936 (Details) First Category B Granollers 1936–1937 (Details) First Category B Martinenc 1937–1938 (Details) First Category B Sants 1938–1939 - There was no dispute 1939–1940 (Details) First Category B Sant Andreu
See also Catalan football championship
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