In less than a year, the Seville club have gone from competing in Liga F to falling to the third tier. The club keep Marco Tamarit and hand the sporting rebuild to two profiles developed within their own structure.
Real Betis Féminas already have a manager and a new organisational structure for the 2026/27 season.
They still have no confirmed squad, no publicly announced objective, and no detailed explanation of how they plan to recover everything they have lost.
Because Betis are not simply facing a season after a relegation. They are facing the consequences of two consecutive falls that have taken a club which had spent nine consecutive seasons in the top flight from Liga F down to Segunda Federación.
On 11 May 2025, a 0–9 defeat against Barcelona confirmed the first relegation. On 25 April 2026, Tenerife B won at the Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol and sealed the second.
From the elite to the third tier in 349 days.
Two seasons, two relegations
Betis arrived in Primera Federación needing to halt the slide and build a project capable of returning to Liga F. They finished the season in the opposite position.
The Seville side ended 13th out of 14 teams, with 23 points from 26 rounds and a goal difference of –24. They went into the penultimate round still with a mathematical chance, but the 1–2 defeat against Tenerife B, combined with wins for AEM and Cacereño, confirmed the drop.
A week later they closed the campaign with a 2–0 loss to CE Europa — the side that finished immediately above them, also on 23 points.
The final table leaves little room for nuance. Betis had been relegated from Liga F to compete in a division where they needed, at the very least, to stabilise. A year later, they went down again.
And the problem does not stop at the first team.
Betis Féminas B also finished 13th in their Segunda Federación group, with 18 points, and were relegated to Tercera Federación. The first team and their main development side were both relegated in the same season.
The rebuild, therefore, does not only affect the squad that will compete in Segunda Federación. It reaches the entire competitive structure of Betis women’s football.
Tamarit stays in the dugout
The first confirmed move for the new season is Marco Tamarit’s continuation.
The Seville-born coach took charge in December 2025, following the departure of Juan Rojo, on an initial contract until the end of the season. He could not prevent the relegation, but the club have decided to extend his deal until 2027 and trust him with the dugout in Segunda Federación.
His renewal offers continuity amid a broader restructuring, although the club’s announcement gives no details on the reasons for the decision and sets no public competitive objective for the coming campaign.
Promotion will be the unavoidable expectation for a club that was playing in Liga F barely a year ago. Whether that becomes a realistic prospect will depend on something that remains unknown: the squad Tamarit will have at his disposal.
Shortly after his continuation was confirmed, the manager himself publicly accepted that demand, defining the challenge clearly:
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— Real Betis Féminas (@RealBetisFem) June 24, 2026
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A rebuild from within
Betis have also changed the leadership of their women’s structure.
Javier López will take over as sporting director following the departure of Carlos Ferrete, who had held the role in recent months. López joined the club in the 2017/18 season as an academy coach and, from the 2022/23 campaign onwards, managed the women’s under-12 side.
Academy coordination will pass to Santiago González, who replaces Nuria Ligero. González comes from the Real Betis Foundation, where he has spent several seasons as an academy coach and worked on social and international projects for the club.
The two appointments share a common thread: both are profiles developed within the organisation. The same can be said of Tamarit, who had already worked in the men’s academy and served as a first-team analyst before taking charge of the women’s side.
Betis are thus betting on internal knowledge to rebuild a section that has just suffered two consecutive relegations. It is a decision that can provide continuity, but it also places López, González and Tamarit in new positions of responsibility at the most difficult moment in the project’s history.
They will not simply be managing a change of category. They will have to rebuild the connection between a first team that will play in Segunda Federación and a reserve side that has also just been relegated.
The answers will come with the squad
Betis have announced the manager and the organisational chart.
They have not yet presented the 2026/27 squad, nor have they publicly communicated the section’s budget or the sporting objective for the new season.
Those decisions will allow the true scale of the rebuild to be measured.
Tamarit’s continuation and the promotion of two internal profiles are the first pieces in place. But the future of Betis Féminas will not be decided by the organisational chart — it will be decided by the resources that accompany those appointments, by the squad that can be assembled, and by the club’s willingness to treat this relegation as a sporting emergency.
A little over a year ago, Betis were still in Liga F.
The 2026/27 season will begin two divisions lower.
The rebuild has started. It remains to be seen how far the club is willing to go to make sure the fall ends here.