Man, trying to track down the Tercera División RFEF Group 14 schedule is a nightmare. Seriously, you’d think in this digital age, finding the fixtures for a Spanish fourth-tier league would be simple. Nope. It felt like I was digging for hidden treasure using a rusted spoon. But I got the details, and I’m going to walk you through exactly how I managed to piece together the upcoming match fixtures.
How I Ended Up Obsessed with Extremadura Football
Before I dive into the messy specifics of the search process, let me tell you why I even started caring about Group 14 in the first place. This wasn’t some professional gig or anything; I’m usually tracking tech trends, not regional football leagues.
My entire focus on this league shifted last autumn. My long-time buddy, Juan, a guy I used to grab coffee with every Tuesday morning, got hit hard when his big engineering firm decided to “restructure.” Suddenly, he was out of work and decided to pack up and move back to his ridiculously small hometown, Villanueva de la Serena, way down in Extremadura.
He was bored out of his mind, wallowing a bit, until he rediscovered his childhood passion: the local team, CD Don Benito. Now, these guys play in Group 14. Juan basically became the unofficial, self-appointed historian and prophet for the club. He started texting me non-stop updates—scores, transfers, rumors about the groundskeeper—stuff I didn’t understand and frankly, didn’t care about at first.
But when you lose that weekly routine with a good friend, you look for new ways to connect. He challenged me to a silly fantasy league based only on Group 14 players. I had no choice but to start tracking the teams to stay relevant in our conversations. It was the only way to get him to talk about anything other than the leaky roof at his parents’ house.
So, I needed the schedule. I needed the full list of fixtures to keep up the façade of caring about a league thousands of miles away just to keep a connection alive.
The Messy Start: Why General Searches Fail
My first move was, naturally, Google. Big mistake.
- I typed: “3 division grupo 14 schedule”
- Result: A bunch of confusing links to aggregator sites (the ones that cover every league in the world).
- The Problem: These sites are great for the top flight, but they often get the lower division schedules wrong, or they only show the last five matches that have already been played, not the upcoming ones. They update slowly, and sometimes they mix up Group 14 of the Third Division with Group 14 of the Youth Leagues. Complete chaos.
I wasted an hour jumping from site to site, only finding partial, conflicting information. Some sites claimed CD Don Benito was playing Merida B this week, others said they were playing Plasencia. This was useless. I realized I had to bypass the giant sports hubs and go straight to the source, or as close as I could get.
Digging Into the Official Channels and Local Gossip
The next step was to try the official Spanish Royal Football Federation site (RFEF). If you’ve ever tried to navigate that site, you know the struggle. It’s dense, poorly organized, and trying to drill down specifically to Group 14 of the Tercera RFEF requires about seven clicks and a prayer.
I finally located the specific section. Here’s the deal with how these lower divisions operate: they often release the schedule in chunks. They don’t typically drop the entire 38-game calendar on day one like the big leagues do. You get maybe the first 10 matchdays, then you wait for the next block.
My breakthrough didn’t come from the official national site, though. It came from going local.
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I started searching specifically for “Diario Extremadura fútbol tercera” (Extremadura newspaper third division football). I figured the regional newspapers, the guys actually living and breathing this stuff, would be the most reliable source for a small league like this. They rely on accurate local reporting to sell papers, not general algorithms.
I spent an afternoon translating horrible, fragmented online snippets from regional sports forums and the websites of local papers like Hoy Extremadura. I opened up a spreadsheet—yes, I know, I got serious about it—and started manually populating the data.
The Final Compilation Process
This is where the practice part really kicked in. It was a verification process:
- I would find a local news report that listed the next three weekends’ fixtures for the entire Group 14.
- I would cross-reference those dates against two other sources: the official, albeit confusing, RFEF site, and one reliable, dedicated Extremadura football fan account on a local platform.
- If all three matched up for the specific fixture (e.g., Miajadas vs. Moralo, November 5th), I marked it as confirmed on my sheet.
The biggest difficulty was tracking down the exact times. The league often sets the day (Saturday or Sunday), but the exact kick-off time sometimes isn’t confirmed until mid-week by the home club itself, especially if they are worried about rain or pitch condition. I learned that for Group 14, you can’t trust the time until about 72 hours before the game.
After about four hours of digging, translating, and cross-referencing, I had managed to compile the schedule for the next five matchdays, complete with confirmed dates and the most likely kick-off times (pending last-minute local club announcements).
I sent the spreadsheet over to Juan. He called me immediately, not to talk about the matches, but just amazed that I’d put that much effort into his little obsession. That schedule, cobbled together through digital detective work and regional newspaper scanning, became our new weekly routine. It wasn’t about the football; it was about the shared project. So if you ever need that specific schedule, forget the big sites—you gotta go local and embrace the spreadsheet life.