SPANISH FOOTBALL | ALMERIA 3 GIRONA 0 | ALMERIA PROMOTES TO LIGA NEXT SEASON

Almeria joins Elche & Villareal in the Spanish Football 1º st Division - Liga - next season after defeating Girona 3 - 0 in the 2º leg return match that gave the winners a final 4 - 0 aggregate result.

Almeria returns to Liga after sending two tough years in the Spanish 2º Division & have worked hard to get finally get back. Girona will be disappointed as they too put in a great season & played well, but Almeria responded in the "Important" part of the season & when it was really needed. They are deserved winner & deserved the promotion.

Aleix Vidal opened the scoring for Almeria & Charles scored the last two. Charles is the "Pichichi" - the top goal scorer of the season - of the Spanish 2º Division with 27 goals.

Congratulations to Almeria, they city will be celebrating their return to the Liga.  

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SPANISH FOOTBALL PROMOTION | VILLAREAL FC JOINS ELCHE NEXT SEASON IN LIGA

The Spanish Football League - Liga - ended last week with "collateral damage", three Clubs relegated to the Spanish 2º Division: Real Mallorca, Real Zaragoza & Deportivo A Coruña. Obviously, three Clubs from the 2º Division are needed to lift into Liga & fill the spaces for season 2013-2014.

Elche was the first to be promoted after mathematically achieving the prize weeks ago. Today we have the second team the wins promotion, Villareal CF returns after falling last year from Liga with their 1- 0 victory over another candidate Almeria.

The goal that put Villareal back into Liga & made the city of Villareal explode with joy came in the 55th min thanks to J.Pereira. Almeria could have promoted had they won but they will now join Girona, Alcorcon & Las Palmas ( Canary Is.) in a home & away play-off series to see which of theses gets the last place to promote into the Spanish First Division.

The sad news is that four Clubs fall into the Spanish 2ºB Division : Guadalajara ( due to an administrative sanction ) Xerez, Huesca & Racing the Santander.

Therefore, the upcoming play-offs for the last place to promote into Liga:

Almeria - Las Palmas ( home & away )
Alcorcon - Girona ( home & away )
12th & 15th of June

The winners will play each other for the last Liga place.

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SPANISH FOOTBALL | REAL SOCIEDAD SPANISH 1º DIVISION TEAM NEXT SEASON ALONG WITH LEVANTE

SPANISH FOOTBALL has´nt as yet finished even though the Spanish 1º Division finished weeks back. The Spanish 2º Division continues & tonight we can announce that REAL SOCIEDAD (pictured celebrating below) & LEVANTE are SPANISH 1º DIVISION TEAMS for next season after earning the coveted promotion. Real Sociedad won 2-0 Celta de Vigo maintaining them as classification leaders & 2º placed Levante won 3-1 Castellon to secured them the silver position of the ladder & the promotion.

With one more Round left Hercules & Real Betis are locked in a fierce battle to be the lucky third team to be promoted, but Hercules has the goal advantage. This means that Hercules needs to win next week to virtually secure their place in the Spanish 1º Division next season.

At the bottom of the ladder Castellon is already demoted but there is a long list of other candidates to be the other three teams that fall into 2ºB Division alongside. Theses include teams as Real Union, Cadiz, Las Palmas, Murcia, Salamanca, Albacete, Huesca & Girona.

Congratulations to Real Sociedad & Levante & welcome to “La Liga”. Next week we will know finally which other team joins them, & which teams join Castellon to fall into 2ºB Division. Tweet

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SPANISH 2º DIVISION: TENERIFE, REAL ZARAGOZA & XEREZ GO UP TO "LA LIGA" NEXT SEASON

With one more round of the Spanish 2º Division left to be played
next week, the three teams that will go up to the "LIGA" - 1º
Division next season have been decided this afternoon.

They are TENERIFE, REAL ZARAGOZA & XEREZ (Jerez)









Xerez defeated 3-1 Huesca to secure their 3º spot, with Hercules
missing out. Zaragoza beat 3-1 Cordoba to get the promotion ticket
& 2º Division leaders Tenerife beat away 0-1 Girona.

Remember from "La Liga" - 1º Division - the three teams relegated
to 2º Division were Numancia, Recreativo de Huelva & Real Betis. Tweet

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