Second Division – Segunda Division. Last 4 teams – relegated, the top 2 – directly promoted, and the next 2 teams (if legible for promotion) going to promotion/relegation play-off against the 16th and the 17th in the First Division. 20 teams played in the league.
Atletico Madrileno – Atletico Madird B – last with 19 points and relegated.
Recreativo (Huelva) – 19th with 29 points and relegated.
Castilla CF – Real Madrid B – 18th with 31 points and relegated.
Racing (Santander) – 17th with 33 points and relegated.
SD Eibar – 16th with 34 points.
Levante UD – 15th with 36 points.
Elche CF – 14th with 36 points.
UD Salamanca – 13th with 36 points.
UE Figueras – 12th with 36 points.
Sestao – 11th with 36 points.
Xerez CD – 10th with 38 points.
Real Murcia – 9th with 38 points.
Palamos CF – 8th with 40 points.
CE Sabadell FC – 7th with 40 points.
UD Las Palmas – 6th with 40 points.
RCD Espanol (Barcelona) – 5th with 42 points. Qualified to promotion/relegation playoffs, thanks to ineligibility of Athletic Bilbao’s B team for promotion. There they faced Malaga, won the first leg at home 1-0, lost the second away 0-1, but managed to prevail in the penalty shoot-out 6-5 and thus return to top flight.
Deportivo (La Coruna) – 4th with 44 points and qualified to promotion/relegation play-offs. No luck there – Deportivo managed highly optimistic 0-0 draw away in the first leg, but lost at home 0-1 to Tenerife and had to stay in Second Division.
Bilbao Athletic – Athletic Bilbao B – ended 3rd with 45 points, but as a second team of First Division club they were ineligible for promotion, which benefited greatly Espanol.
Real Betis finished 2nd with 47 points. They missed first place by little, but it was not very important – Real Betis was promoted and that mattered most: return to First Division was the achieved aim.
Real Burgos won the championship with 50 points from 18 wins, 14 ties, 6 losses and 53-24 scoring record. Not really dominating the league, but still the best teams.
One more photo of the Second Division champions, happy to return to First Division.
So, the newly promoted were old top-league members all: Real Burgos, Real Betis, and Espanol.