The 2026 Segunda Federación play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoción de Ascenso) are the final play-offs for promotion from 2025–26 Segunda Federación to the 2026–27 Primera Federación.
Format Twenty teams will participe in the promotion play-off. Each of the five groups of the Segunda División RFEF are represented by the four teams that finished the regular season between the second and fifth positions. In the draw for the first stage, the participating teams were assigned to pots corresponding to their final regular season position. While avoiding matches between teams from the same regular season group, second-place finishers were drawn against fifth-place finishers while teams that finished third would play teams that finished fourth. The same draw process was repeated, to the extent that it would be possible, in the draw for the second round.
The five winning clubs of the second stage will be promoted and will accompany the five group champions who had already been promoted.
The final two relegation spots (of 27 total) will also be determined via play-offs. The four 13th-place finishers with the lowest point totals will be drawn into two single-leg matches, with the winners securing survival in the Segunda División RFEF and the losers being relegated to the Tercera División RFEF. The two match-ups will be selected through a random draw and hosted at a venue chosen from among the stadiums selected to host the promotion play-offs.
Promotion play-offs
Teams
Participating teams Águilas Alavés B Alcoyano Atlético Baleares Conquense Coria Coruxo Getafe B Jaén UD Logroñés Minera Numancia UD Ourense Oviedo Vetusta Poblense Reus FCR San Sebastián de los Reyes Tudelano Utebo Xerez
Road to the play-offs
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
First round
Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam1 2ndOviedo Vetusta2 2ndAlavés B3 2ndAtlético Baleares4 2ndMinera5 2ndSan Sebastián de los Reyes
GroupPositionTeam1 3rdUD Ourense2 3rdUD Logroñés3 3rdPoblense4 3rdÁguilas5 3rdConquense
GroupPositionTeam1 4thNumancia2 4thUtebo3 4thReus FCR4 4thXerez5 4thGetafe B
GroupPositionTeam1 5thCoruxo2 5thTudelano3 5thAlcoyano4 5thJaén5 5thCoria
Matches
First leg
Second Leg
Second round Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam1 2ndOviedo Vetusta3 2ndAtlético Baleares5 2ndSan Sebastián de los Reyes
GroupPositionTeam1 3rdUD Ourense2 3rdUD Logroñés3 3rdPoblense4 3rdÁguilas5 3rdConquense
GroupPositionTeam4 5thJaén5 5thCoria
Matches
First leg
Second leg
Promoted teams The five teams that were or would be promoted to Primera Federación through regular season groups and the five play-off winners were included. The number of years after the last participation of the club in the third tier is referred to the previous appearance at that level. Depending on the time, it could have been Tercera División (until 1977), Segunda División B (1977–2021) or Primera Federación (2021–present). Promoted to Primera FederaciónGroup 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5Deportivo Fabril (1st)Real Unión (1st)Sant Andreu (1st)Extremadura (1st)Rayo Majadahonda (1st)UD Ourense (4th) UD Logroñés (3rd) Águilas (3rd) Coria (5th)Jaén (5th)
Relegation play-offs
Table of 13th-placed teams
Qualified teams
GroupPositionTeam2 13thSD Logroñés3 13thCastellón B4 13thEstepona5 13thReal Madrid C
Matches
First leg
Second leg
Relegated teams 27 teams relegated to Tercera Federación: 25 teams through regular season groups and the two play-off losers. The numbers of years after the last relegation are referred to the last participation of the club in Tercera División or Tercera Federación if the team was promoted after 2021.
Relegated to Tercera FederaciónUP LangreoSD SarrianaBurgos PromesasLealtadSámanoBeasainEjeaMutilveraDeportivo AragónAlfaroIbiza Islas PitiusasAndratxAtlètic LleidaTorrentPorreresPuente GenilXerez DeportivoMelillaAlmería BAtlético MalagueñoQuintanar del ReyFuenlabradaMoscardóSocuéllamosRayo Vallecano B
References
External links Royal Spanish Football Federation website