The Cantabrian Football Federation ( es, Federación Cántabra de Fútbol; FCF) is the body responsible for managing
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
in the
Cantabria autonomous region. Its offices are in
Santander
Santander may refer to:
Places
* Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
* Santander Department, a department of Colombia
* Santander State, former state of Colombia
* Santander de Quilichao, a m ...
.
History
The federation was officially created on 8 April 1923, after several reunions in the previous year to establish a regional championship happened. Domingo Solís was elected as its first president.
The first regional championship took place during the 1922–23 season, with
Racing de Santander
Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system ...
being crowned champions.
Competitions
The Cantabrian Football Federation organises the following competitions:
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Tercera División
Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...
, Group 3
*
RFEF Cantabria tournament (Regional phase of the
Federation Cup Federation Cup or Fed Cup is the former name of the premier world team competition in women's tennis.
Federation Cup may also refer to:
* Capital Football Federation Cup, an Australian territory-based association football tournament
*Federation Cup ...
)
*Copa Cantabria Juvenil (Cantabria Youth Cup)
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Liga Cántabra Juvenil (Cantabria Youth League)
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Liga Cántabra Femenina (Cantabria Women's Football League)
*Copa Cantabria Femenina (Basque Women's Cup)
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See also
*Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in Cantabria
The Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol in the Cantabria, are organized by the Cantabrian Football Federation:
*Regional Preferente (Level 6 of the Spanish football league system, Spanish football pyramid)
*Primera Regional (Level 7)
*Segunda Regional ...
*List of Spanish regional football federations
There are seventeen football federations in Spain. These organizations are the governing bodies (alongside the Royal Spanish Football Federation) of autonomous community football. Most of them have their own football team.
The 19 Football Federati ...
References
External links
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{{Tercera División Group 3
Spanish football associations
Football in Cantabria
1923 establishments in Spain
Sports organizations established in 1923