Segunda Division – Second Division. The 18 teams played two-phased championship: after the regular season, the league was divided into three groups in accord with the final table of the first phase. Two groups played for promotion and the third was relegation group. As it turned out later, the relegation group played for nothing, because of newly decided increase of the top two divisions, which eliminated relegation this season. The winners of the each promotional group were promoted up and the third promoted team was going to be the second finisher with better record. The same rule applied for deciding the league champion. Points from the first phase were carried over to the second. Here the final standings after the second phase are given.
Group B – the Relegation Group, consisting of the teams taking 13-18 places at the end of first phase.
Jerez Deportivo – 6th with 22 points.
Castilla CF (Real Madrid B team) – 5th with 33 points.
Real Oviedo – 4th with 40 points.
Cartagena FC – 3rd with 42 points.
UA Figueres – 2nd with 42 points.
Barcelona Athletic (Barcelona B team) – 1st with 42 points.
Promotion groups:
Group A2:
CD Malaga – 6th with 40 points.
Rayo Vallecano – 5th with 41 points.
CD Castellon – 4th with 44 points.
Deportivo La Coruna – 3rd with 51 points.
Sestao – 2nd with 52 points. What a misfortune: rules were against them. They had worse final record than the 2nd placed team in the other group and missed promotion.
Celta (Vigo) won the group with 54 points and earned promotion. But they had worse record than the winners of the other group and did not win the Segunda championship. It was a matter of 3 points.
Group A1.
Bilbao Athletic (Athletic Bilbao B team) – 6th with 39 points.
Hercules – 5th with 41 points.
Elche CF – 4th with 48 points. Standing from left: Escobar, Robi, Nunes, Quesada, Miguel.
Crouching: Juanín, Boria, Pedro-Pablo, Asensio, Blanco-Vila, Claudio.
Recreativo Huelva – 3rd with 50 points.
CD Logrones – 2nd with 54 points and promoted: they finished with 2 points more than Sestao.
Valencia CF – 1st with 57 points. Not only promoted, but also declared champions of Segunda Division, for they finished ahead of Celta, which ended with 54 points.
And that was that: Valencia, Celta, and Logrones were promoted to the top league.