The Royal Football Federation of the Principality of Asturias ( es, Real Federación de Fútbol del Principado de Asturias; RFFPA) is the federation responsible for managing

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in the

Principality of Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

. Its current president is Maximino Martínez Suárez. RFFPA manages Asturian leagues from

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(Group 2) to the Regional lower divisions, the Regional stage of the Copa Federación and the Autonomous team, which plays in the

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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 21 December, in that same year, the RFFPA received the official backing of the Spanish Football Federation, authorizing the use by the newly created body Cantabrian Federation of Football Club. On 22 November 1916, the Spanish Federation decided that Santander resign from the Northern Federation and be integrated into the Cantabrian Federation, until 1918 when it returned to its former Federation, with 28 May of that year being when the Assembly National Federation agreed to change the name of the Cantabrian Federation of Asturian Regional Federation of Football Clubs. On 30 June 1919 due to the reform of its Constitution and Bylaws, the RFFPA expands its sports district to join the federation the provinces of León, Palencia and later those of Zamora and

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. It changed its name on 6 August 1933 to the Asturian Federation Cup, and in May 1941 to underwent 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

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, until at last, in 1952, the RFFPA was restored to the Asturian Federation denomination with only the province of Asturias. In 1985, under Decree 71/1985 of the Concierge of Education, Culture and Sport, RFFPA becomes the current Football Federation of Asturias. This was the most important date in recent years because it allowed the acquisition of legal personality to enable a territorial assembly legislation, which since 1986 has stipulated that its own Rules and Regulations, whose obvious advantages are reflected in the processes arising from natural or legal persons who depend on our territorial federative organization, the ETF, solely and exclusively on those competitions in excess of the Asturias principality territory. The average weekly meetings are 500, which in quantity are very difficult to overcome in terms of the population of the region. Appearing in recent years are new forms of soccer like futbol 7 and

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, as well as the specialty of indoor football, which have gained important steps to become fully integrated into the organization and the federal competition entity with the power and sufficient conditions equal to the rest of the members. As regards to its coaching staff, there are the School Committee of Referees, Coaches and School Committee, indoor football Referees Technical Committee, which are well targeted and developed within the organization's 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 in both coaches and referees. Since April 1977 HRH Felipe de Borbón,

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,Una Federación Real
Royal Asturias Football Federation holds the honorary presidency of the Football Federation of Asturias.

Competitions

The Royal Asturias Football Federation organises the following competitions: *

, group 2 *

Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in Asturias The Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Community of Asturias, organized by Real Federación de Fútbol del Principado de Asturias: *Primera RFFPA, formerly Regional Preferente de Asturias (Level 6 of the Spanish football pyramid) *Segunda RFF ...

* Women's regional league *

Copa Federación de España (Asturias tournament) The Asturias tournament is the previous round of the Copa RFEF in Asturias. Organized by the Royal Asturias Football Federation, the Asturian teams in Segunda División B and the best teams of the Tercera División (Group 2) non qualified to the ...

Champions

Tercera División

In bold, champions and runners-up that promoted to

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Notable clubs affiliated with RFFPA

;

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* Sporting Gijón ;

* Langreo * Marino Luanco ; Segunda División Pro (women) *

* Sporting Gijón ; Primera Nacional (women) * Gijón *

Presidents

International referees from the RFFPA

* Mariano Medina Iglesias * Manuel Díaz Vega *

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* César Muñiz Fernández

References

External links

* {{Authority control

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

Football in Asturias Sports organizations established in 1915 1915 establishments in Spain Organisations based in Spain with royal patronage