Royal Asturias Football Federation

Royal Asturias Football Federation

RFEF
Founded	1915
President	Maximino Martínez
Website	asturfutbol.es

The Real Federación de Fútbol del Principado de Asturias (RFFPA) is the federation responsible for managing association football in the Principality of Asturias. Its current president is Maximino Martínez Suárez.^[1]

RFFPA manages Asturian leagues from Tercera División (Group 2) to the Regional lower divisions, the Regional stage of the Copa Federación and the Autonomous team, which plays in the UEFA Regions' Cup.

History

The current RFFPA started in 1913 with the creation of the first autonomous federation. It consisted of six teams and has been chaired by several presidents.

On December 21 the same year he received the official backing of the Spanish Football Federation, authorizing the use by the newly created body Cantabrian Federation of Football Club. On November 22, 1916, the Spanish Federation decided that Santander resigned from the Northern Federation and integrated into the Cantabrian Federation until 1918 returns to its former Federation, with the May 28 this year when the Assembly National Federation takes the agreement to change the name of the Cantabrian Federation of Asturian Regional Federation of Football Clubs.

In 1919 (June 30) due to the reform of its Constitution and Bylaws, expands its boundaries sport to join this federation the provinces of León, Palencia and later those of Zamora and Burgos, changing its name again in 1933 (August 6), the Asturian Federation Cup, in May 1941 to undergo a new transformation to become Astur-Montañesa Federation Cup, which governed the sport in good order the provinces of Asturias, León, Palencia, Santander, Burgos, Zamora and Salamanca, until at last, in 1952, is restored Asturian Federation denomination with only the province of Asturias.

In 1985, under Decree 71/1985 of the Concierge of Education, Culture and Sport becomes the current Football Federation of Asturias, this being the most important fact in recent years to allow the acquisition of legal personality enabling legislation of the territorial assembly, which has 1986 has its own Rules and Regulations of Organic and sport, whose obvious advantages are reflected in the processes arising from natural or legal persons who depend on our territorial federative organization, depending on the ETF. solely and exclusively on those competitions in excess of the territory of the Principality of Asturias.

The average weekly meetings is 500, ceiling and quantitatively very difficult to overcome in terms of the population of our region. Appear in recent years new forms of soccer-7 and feminine, as well as the specialty of indoor football, they gain step very important and fully integrated into the organization and federal competicional entity with the power and sufficient conditions equality with the rest of the members.

As regards its technical organs and School Committee of Referees, Coaches and School Committee, Referees Technical Committee indoor football, well targeted and developed within the Organic Regulations. It is fair to point out the synchronism between them and the Federation itself, with optimal results in the operation of schools by holding regular courses and degrees resulting from both coaches and referees.

Since April 1977 holds the honorary presidency of the Football Federation of Asturias HRH Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias.^[2]

Notable clubs affiliated to RFFPA

Segunda División

• Sporting de Gijón

Segunda División B

• CD Lealtad
• Marino de Luanco
• Real Avilés
• Real Oviedo
• UP Langreo

Primera División (women)

• Oviedo Moderno CF

Presidents

International referees from the RFFPA

• Mariano Medina Iglesias
• Manuel Díaz Vega
• Manuel Mejuto González
• César Muñiz Fernández

References

External links

• Official website