2025–26 División de Honor de Rugby

2025–26 División de Honor
2025–26 División de Honor
Countries	Spain
Date	27 September 2025

The 2025–26 División de Honor is the 59th season of the División de Honor, the top flight of Spanish domestic rugby union.

Competition format

The season takes place between October and May.

Points are awarded as follows:

4 points for a win
2 points for a draw
1 bonus point for a team scoring 4 tries or more in a match
1 bonus point for a team that loses a match by 7 points or fewer

Each team plays ten games - one game against each opponent. Then the league divides into two groups: the top six teams progress to Group A and the remaining five teams progress to Group B. The teams play five additional games, facing the other members of their groups once more.

Eight teams progress through to the playoffs, meaning the top two teams from Group B qualify along with the six teams from Group A.^[1]

Promotion and relegation

The second-tier División de Honor B de Rugby is made up of three regional groups. The top eight teams across the three groups play off; the champion is promoted to División de Honor.

Like the 2024/25 season, two teams would be relegated, reducing the league to 10 teams.

Teams

Pozuelo and Les Abelles were relegated while Liceo Francés were promoted.^[2]

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Location
Alcobendas	Las Terrazas	2,000	Alcobendas, Madrid	Alcobendas Valladolid El Salvador Santboiana Aparejadores Ordizia Barcelona Cisneros Ciencias La Vila Liceo Francés Current División de Honor teams
Aparejadores	San Amaro	1,000	Burgos, Castile and León
Ciencias	Instalaciones Deportivas La Cartuja	3,000	Seville, Andalusia
Complutense Cisneros	Estadio Complutense	12,400	Moncloa-Aravaca, Madrid
El Salvador	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid, Castile and León
FC Barcelona	La Teixonera	500	Barcelona, Catalonia
La Vila	Campo de Rugby "El Pantano"	1,550	La Vila Joiosa, Valencia
Liceo Francés	Estadio Ramon Urtubi	500	Hortaleza,Madrid
Ordizia	Altamira	2,000	Ordizia, Basque Country
Santboiana	Baldiri Aleu	3,500	Sant Boi de Llobregat, Catalonia
Valladolid	Pepe Rojo	5,000	Valladolid, Castile and León

Results and standings

	ALC	APA	CIE	CIS	ELS	FCB	LAV	LF	ORD	SAN	VAL
Alcobendas	–		51–27		29–21		46–19		48–16		13–35
Aparejadores		–		40–40		56–8		45–0		23–20
Ciencias			–	22–15		29–24		39–49		33–13
Complutense Cisneros	27–28			–	33–40		45–14			20–12
El Salvador		7–34			–		26–38		29–23		21–32
FC Barcelona	14–18			19–37	20–10	–		13–41
La Vila		32–25	40–21			43–7	–				29–35
Liceo Francés	20–32				28–32			–	32–19	20–15
Ordizia		20–36	40–21			17–20	27–16		–
Santboiana	37–19						38–12		31–33	–	15–34
Valladolid		23–26	48–15	37–12				24–10			–

Sources: FE Rugby First Phase

First phase

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	TF	TA	+/-	BP	Los	Pts
1	Valladolid	8	7	0	1	268	141	127	34	14	20	4	1	33
2	Aparejadores	8	6	1	1	285	150	135	35	16	19	4	1	31
3	Alcobendas	9	7	0	2	284	216	68	35	29	6	2	0	30
4	La Vila	9	4	0	5	243	270	-27	31	37	-6	2	1	19
5	Liceo Francés	8	4	0	4	200	219	-19	24	29	-5	1	1	18
6	Complutense Cisneros	8	3	1	4	229	212	17	27	27	0	1	3	18
7	Ordizia	8	3	0	5	195	233	-38	20	29	-9	0	2	14
8	Ciencias	8	3	0	5	207	280	-73	27	32	-5	2	0	14
9	Santboiana	8	2	0	6	181	194	-13	25	25	0	2	3	13
10	El Salvador	8	3	0	5	186	237	-51	22	24	-2	0	0	12
11	FC Barcelona	8	2	0	6	125	251	-126	14	32	-18	0	2	10

Source: FE Rugby

	Qualified for Group A
	Qualified for Group B

Copa del Rey

The Copa del Rey changed format, expanding to 20 teams (the 11 teams from División de Honor plus 9 from the newly established second-tier División de Honor Élite).The group phase, consisting of four groups of five, runs from 20 November to 21 December 2025, followed by single-leg semifinals in February and a final in May.^[3]^[4]

Group A

	Team	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	TF	TA	+/-	BP	Los	Pts
1	Valladolid	4	4	0	172	22	150	27	3	24	4	0	20
2	FC Barcelona	4	2	2	107	98	9	17	12	5	2	1	11
3	Ordizia	4	2	2	149	75	74	20	10	10	2	0	10
4	Ingenieros Industriales Las Rozas	4	2	2	75	176	-101	10	26	-16	0	0	8
5	Belenos RC	4	0	4	63	195	-132	8	31	-23	0	1	1

Source: FE Rugby

Group B

	Team	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	TF	TA	+/-	BP	Los	Pts
1	La Vila	4	4	0	126	88	38	18	14	4	0	0	16
2	El Salvador	4	3	1	139	59	80	20	9	11	1	1	14
3	Ciencias	4	2	2	89	91	-2	15	13	2	1	0	9
4	Hernani	4	1	3	94	123	-29	14	17	-3	0	0	4
5	Sant Cugat	4	0	4	50	137	-87	7	21	-14	0	1	1

Source: FE Rugby

Group C

	Team	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	TF	TA	+/-	BP	Los	Pts
1	Complutense Cisneros	4	3	1	191	87	104	30	10	20	3	0	15
2	Santboiana	4	3	1	158	77	81	23	10	13	2	1	15
3	Gernika	4	2	2	70	109	-39	8	16	-8	0	1	9
4	Pozuelo	4	1	3	98	158	-60	10	22	-12	0	0	4
5	Valencia	4	1	3	84	170	-86	11	24	-13	0	0	4

Source: FE Rugby

Group D

	Team	P	W	L	F	A	+/-	TF	TA	+/-	BP	Pts
1	Alcobendas	4	4	0	153	45	108	23	6	17	2	18
2	Aparejadores	4	3	1	175	58	117	26	6	20	3	15
3	Liceo Francés	4	2	2	93	111	-18	13	16	-3	2	10
4	Fénix CR Zaragoza	4	1	3	64	126	-62	6	19	-13	0	4
5	Les Abelles	4	0	4	37	182	-145	5	26	-21	0	0

Source: FE Rugby

	Qualified for Semifinals
	Eliminated

Semifinals

8 February 2026

Valladolid	v	Alcobendas

8 February 2026

Complutense Cisneros	v	La Vila

Final

2/3 May

	v

FE Rugby

References

^ "La División de Honor arranca a lo grande: el gran derbi pucelano inaugura la temporada en Movistar Plus+". sport.es (in Spanish). 26 September 2025. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
^ Ramírez, Alberto (2025-05-30). "Un largo paréntesis de 18 años para el regreso del Liceo Francés a la élite del rugby español". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-25.
^ dpto.prensa (2025-11-19). "El nuevo modelo de la Copa del Rey arranca con 20 clubes y una fase de grupos ampliada". Real Federación Española de Rugby - FERugby - Spanish Rugby Union (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-12-02.
^ MARCA, Redacción (2025-11-30). "Intensa segunda jornada en la Copa del Rey". MARCA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-12-02.

External links

Official site

[1] "La División de Honor arranca a lo grande: el gran derbi pucelano inaugura la temporada en Movistar Plus+". sport.es (in Spanish). 26 September 2025. Retrieved 20 October 2025.

[2] Ramírez, Alberto (2025-05-30). "Un largo paréntesis de 18 años para el regreso del Liceo Francés a la élite del rugby español". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-25.

[3] to.prensa (2025-11-19). "El nuevo modelo de la Copa del Rey arranca con 20 clubes y una fase de grupos ampliada". Real Federación Española de Rugby - FERugby - Spanish Rugby Union (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-12-02.

[4] MARCA, Redacción (2025-11-30). "Intensa segunda jornada en la Copa del Rey". MARCA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-12-02.

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Current teams	Alcobendas Aparejadores Ciencias Complutense Cisneros El Salvador FC Barcelona La Vila Ordizia Santboiana Valladolid Liceo Francés
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