2016 Segunda División B playoffs

The 2016 Segunda División B play-offs (Playoffs de Ascenso or Promoción de Ascenso) are the final playoffs for promotion from 2015–16 Segunda División B to the 2016–17 Segunda División. The four first placed teams in each one of the four qualify for the promotion playoffs and the four last placed teams in Segunda División are relegated to Segunda División B. It also decides the teams which placed 16th to be relegated to the 2016–17 Tercera División.

Format

The four group winners have the opportunity to promote directly and become the overall Segunda División B champion. The four group winners will be drawn into a two-legged series where the two winners will be promoted to the Segunda División and will enter into the final for the Segunda División B champion. The two losing semifinalists will enter the playoff round for the last two promotion spots.

The four group runners-up will be drawn against one of the three fourth-placed teams outside their group while the four third-placed teams will be drawn against each other in a two-legged series. The six winners will advance with the two losing semifinalists to determine the four teams that will enter the last two-legged series for the last two promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club will play at home first. Whenever there is a tie in position (e.g. like the group winners in the Semifinal Round and Final or the third-placed teams in the first round), a draw will determine the club to play at home first.

Group Winners promotion play-off

Qualified teams

The draw was held in the RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas (Madrid).^[1]

Group	Team
1	Racing Santander
2	Real Madrid Castilla
3	Reus
4	UCAM Murcia

Matches

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UCAM Murcia	4–3	Real Madrid Castilla	2–1	2–2
Racing Santander	0–4	Reus	0–3	0–1

First leg

Second leg

Promoted to Segunda División
Reus (First time ever)	UCAM Murcia (First time ever)

Final

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Reus	0–0 (3–5 p )	UCAM Murcia	0–0	0–0

First leg

Second leg

Segunda División B 2015–16 Winners
UCAM Murcia

Non-champions promotion play-off

First round

Qualified teams

The draw was held in the RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas (Madrid).^[1]

Matches

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UD Logroñés	1–1 (a)	Villarreal B	0–0	1–1
Toledo	2–1	Murcia	0–0	2–1
Lleida	2–1	Barakaldo	1–0	1–1
Cádiz	2–1	Racing Ferrol	0–0	2–1
Tudelano	0–2	Hércules	0–1	0–1
Sevilla Atlético	3–2	Socuéllamos	1–1	2–1

First leg

Second leg

Second round

Qualified teams

The draw was held in the RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas (Madrid).^[1]

Matches

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lleida Esportiu	4–0	Real Madrid Castilla	1–0	3–0
Cádiz	2–0	Racing Santander	1–0	1–0
UD Logroñés	0–1	Sevilla Atlético	0–1	0–0
Toledo	2–3	Hércules	0–1	2–2

First leg

Second leg

Third round

Qualified teams

As there were only two third qualified teams and two four qualified teams from the same groups, there was no need to make a draw for the two finals.

Group Position Team 3 3rd Hércules 4 3rd Sevilla Atlético

Group Position Team 3 4th Lleida Esportiu 4 4th Cádiz

Matches

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Lleida Esportiu	1–1 (4–5 p)	Sevilla Atlético	0–1	1–0
Cádiz	2–0	Hércules	1–0	1–0

First leg

Second leg

Promoted to Segunda División
Cádiz CF (6 years later)	Sevilla Atlético (7 years later)

Relegation play-off

Qualified teams

The draw was held in the

Group	Position	Team
1	16th	Cacereño
2	16th	Leioa
3	16th	Olímpic
4	16th	Linares

Matches

The losers of this tournament will be relegated to the 2016-17 Tercera División.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cacereño	1–2	Linares	0–0	1–2
Olímpic	2–5	Leioa	1–1	1–4

First leg

Second leg

Relegated to Tercera División
Cacereño (8 years later)	Olímpic (5 years later)

References