The Spanish Second Division will kick off this weekend with 22 teams, but without Murcia, who had been readmitted after a legal appeal. Mirandés will remain in the second tier. The Professional Football League (LFP) has rejected for now the option of maintaining Murcia in the division and expanding the number of teams to 23. The LFP petitioned the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) on Monday to allow a 23-team division but the national governing body's board of directors have rejected the request. The FEF has told the LFP that it will not change the fixture list and demanded that the league start this weekend as scheduled. As things stand, Murcia will not be participating in the competition.
The LFP based its argument on a Madrid mercantile court ruling to reinstate Murcia but such a move would have required a change to the FEF's book of regulations based on an expansion of the LFP. The court order is viewed by the LFP as one of "impossible compliance" as long as the FEF refuses to modify the number of teams in the division.
The president of the LFP, Javier Tebas, made the announcement on Monday evening after a series of delays in the FEF making its final decision known.
Murcia's administrative relegation from the Second Division to the Second Division B was confirmed after the club failed to hammer out a deal with the tax authorities over an outstanding bill of some 12 million euros. Mirandés, who had been relegated on the field last season, were reinstated to the second tier in place of Murcia.
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