Sevilla won the second division championship, and with it promotion to the first division next season, after a hard fought 1-0 victory over rivals Tenerife. In front of a capacity 44,000 crowd, Sevilla had two goals disallowed in the first half hour, and Marioni hit the post at the other end for Tenerife before the break. The only goal of the match came from Podestá immediately after the restart following good work from Zalayeta and Olivera, and they hung on in a nail biting finish after Héctor was sent off in injury time. With two games to go Sevilla are seven points ahead of their city rivals Betis, and return to the top flight after only one season back in the second division.

Betis slipped up in the only game played on Saturday evening, losing 3-2 at Levante. Nobody doubts that, with nothing else to play for, the Valencia club's motivation came from the suitcases full of money offered to players by other promotion candidates, and they raced into a two goal lead within twenty minutes of the kick off. Lima opened the scoring with a snapshot from the edge of the area, and Fabao put through his own net a few minutes later with Roa challenging, and when Miguel Angel added a third thirteen minutes from the end the game seemed to be over. However two late goals in injury time from substitutes Cuéllar and Casas put the result in doubt until the final whistle. Betis now have two difficult games against local rivals, the first at home to Recreativo, who still have an outside chance of promotion, and the second away to Jaén.

Only one point now separates three teams for the two remaining promotion spots after Atlético Madrid defeated Albacete 0-1. It was a fairy tale come true for seventeen year old Fernando Torres, who came on for Kiko with fifteen minutes to go and got the only goal of the match moments later. Torres, who recently finished as top scorer in the European under 16 championship which Spain won, also had a hand in the sending off of two players Arias and Padilla, both of whom got their marching orders near the end for fouls on the youngster either side of his goal. Atlético move behind Tenerife on goal average, a point behind Betis. The defeat takes Albacete out of the running for promotion this year, and they drop down to sixth in the table, five points behind the third placed team. Next week Tenerife and Atlético are at home to Lleida and Sporting, with their last matches away at Leganés and Getafe respectively.

Recreativo Huelva revived their hopes of promotion with a 2-0 victory over relegation candidates Compostela. Huelva were reduced to ten men when Soto was sent off for a second bookable offence halfway through the first half, but referee Pérez Lima evened things up ten minutes in to the second half when Pinillos picked up a second yellow card. Xisco opened the scoring with a quarter of an hour to go from the penalty spot after Camacho was brought down, and Bodipo headed the second in injury time. Recreativo move up to 65 points, three behind Atlético, two ahead of Albacete and three above Sporting Gijon, who beat Badajoz 1-0. The only goal of the game came in the second half from Russia's Ledhiakov.

After having three points docked midweek for fielding too many non-EU players against Compostela, Getafe lost 1-2 to Racing Ferrol and joined Lleida and Universidad Las Palmas in the second division B. The referee had to be escorted off the pitch after awarding a controversial penalty for the visitors which Aira converted after Getafe had taken the lead through Maikel. Pazolo got the winner for Ferrol to take them four points clear of the drop zone. Lleida beat Universidad 4-2 in the match between the bottom two, only the fifth win of the season for the Catalans. Josemi and Renaldo gave them the lead before Ojeda and Jonathan levelled the score with goals either side of half time. However Renaldo put the home side back in front with his second, and young substitute Nil finished things off from the penalty spot near the end after Vara was sent off for handling the ball in the area.

The last relegation spot looks like being between Compostela and Elche, who lost 3-1 to Jaén. Nano gave Elche the lead, but after Redondo was sent off just before half time, the home side scored three times after the break, first through Jurado, then a Rueda penalty after Imanol was fouled, and finally a Sierra strike in stoppage time. Elche ended the game with nine men after Benja was sent off seven minutes from the end, and they are now in nineteenth place, a point behind Compostela. Murcia moved out of reach of the bottom clubs with a 1-0 victory over Eibar thanks to a goal by Correro. The match was played in Alicante after Murcia's ground was eventually closed for one game following a lengthy appeal after crowd trouble in their January cup match against Zaragoza.

Leganés are two points behind Murcia after beating Córdoba 4-0, and only need a point or so to be safe themselves. Puñol scored in the first minute and the last, the second from the penalty spot, with Barbarín and Merino getting goals in between. Córdoba's Quini was sent off ten minutes from the end. Extremadura beat Salamanca 1-2 in the other match at the weekend to move level with their opponents in the middle of the table on 56 points. All three goals came in the second half, with Lolo giving the visitors the lead, Toedtli equalising and Pedro José getting the winner ten minutes from the end.