Catalan Football Championship of Second Category

The Catalan football championship of Second Category was the second division of the Catalan football championship, which gave access to compete in the top category.

History

Both its name and its competition format varied over the years. Thus, in the early years, the second-tier clubs contested in the Junior Championship, and the top-tier played in the Senior Championship. In the 1912–13 season, this category was called the Second League. The following season, the category was called the Second Category.
In the 1917–18 season, the category was renamed as Campionat de Catalunya B, and was contested by 6 clubs in a league format, with the champions playing a promotion match against the last-qualified team in Primera A, in order to achieve promotion. In 1928, however, it was renamed the "Second Category Preferent" and was contested by 12 clubs divided into three groups of four, with the five best teams in the second division competing against the three worst teams in the first division in a promotion play-off. This system remained more or less stable until the 1934–35 season, when it reverted to the name of Primera B, contested by 18 teams in 3 groups. It disappeared in 1940.