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' Royal Celtic Club of Vigo '), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed Os Celestes (The Sky Blues), the club was founded in August 1923 as Club Celta , following the merger of Real Vigo Sporting and Real Fortuna .
Celtic's third-place finish in the league the previous season saw them qualify for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1962. Drawn against Spanish side Valencia in the first round, Celtic were defeated 4–2 in the first leg in Spain on 24 October 1962, [6] having trailed 3–0 at half time.
Each UEFA member has its own football league system, except Liechtenstein. [3] Clubs playing in each top-level league compete for the title as the country's club champions. Clubs also compete in the league and national cup competitions for places in the following season's UEFA club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
Between 1905 and 1910, Celtic won the Scottish League Championship six times in a row. [13] [21] They also won the Scottish Cup in both 1907 and 1908, the first times a Scottish club had ever won the double. [13] [22] During World War I, Celtic won the league four times in a row, including 62 matches unbeaten between November 1915 and April 1917.
The highest level of competition within Puerto Rico is the Puerto Rico Soccer League, and teams can qualify domestically as Puerto Rican entrants in the Caribbean Club Championship and the CONCACAF Champions League. The Puerto Rico Islanders played in the new North American Soccer League (NASL) during the league's first two seasons of 2011 and ...
The UEFA league coefficients, also known as the UEFA rankings, are used to rank the leagues of Europe, and thus determine the number of clubs from a league that will participate in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. A country's ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next; the 2009 rankings determined ...
In addition to clubs from Spain, and under the purview of the additional provision 17 of the 1990 Law of Sport, Andorran clubs affiliated to a Spanish regional federation are allowed to compete in the system. [1] The RFEF allows reserve teams to compete in the main league system, as is the case in most European domestic leagues. However ...
Currently the governing body of football in Spain is the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), which is in charge of its national teams and its leagues, with the highest one being La Liga. RFEF was founded in 1909 and is a member of both FIFA and UEFA .