Elche already knows its 19 rivals of the 2025-2026 season In the First Division, after the promotion on Saturday night of Real Oviedo, which won an exciting end of “play-off” to Mirandés, determined in the extension, with traced in Carlos Tartiere.
The Asturians return 24 years later to the highest category, after their fall in 2001, which led them to the hell of the third and second division B for a decade, until in 2015 they returned to professional football, in a trajectory that reminds of the Ilicitano club between 1989 and 2013. The Oviedo joins Levante and Elche as ascended from Second, completing the First Division with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic, Valencia, Atlétic.
A first that recovers historical and that, in its 95th edition, adds more than a thousand years in the highest category among all its participants, specifically 1,089, from the Plenary of Madrid, Barça and Athletic to six o'clock in Girona. The franjiverdes, who will fulfill their silver weddings in the elite (25 seasons) will be The sixth club with fewer campaigns in firstonly ahead of the Gerundenses, Levante (17), Alavés (20), Getafe (21) and Ray (23).
Without the rise of Mirandés, the first division 2025-2026 stays without hosting debutants Among the best in the country. In the case of Elche, he will not face any team for the first time for the first time, since he has coincided with his 19 opponents at least one course.
In the historical confrontations against all of them, Elche only has to win one, the Girona, with which he has only coincided in 2022-2023, losing the two games. With Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic, Valencia and Atlético has coincided in all its seasons in Primera, something that will continue to occur as of August. With the one that has lost the most times it has been with the merengue team (31), followed by the mattress (30) and the culé (28). On the positive side, the rival he has won the most times is Espanyol (15), while with the lightning he is with the best balance (seven wins in ten clashes).
Elche rivals in the 2025-2026 season / Information
Dates indicated
The First Division calendar will be announced the July 1in an act that will take place in San Juan de la Nava (Ávila), as a tribute to emptied Spain, in which those of the 14 main competitions of national football will also be announced. The highest category will begin on the weekend of August 15 to 17 and that will end the May 24.
The Christmas break will take place between December 21 and January 4, while during the championship there will be four stops for selections, which in the first, unlike in second, do stop the competition: from September 1 to 9, from October 6 to 14 (in this Spain-Georgia will be played in Elche, on the 11th), from November 10 to 18 and from March 23 to 31.
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