It is the country's second-tier/division football competition, which is contested by 18 clubs and operates by a system of promotion and relegation.

Many teams for Costa Rican soccer have passed through this division, such as Deportivo Saprissa, C.S.

Uruguay de Coronado, Orión F.C., Municipal Puntarenas and Deportivo Barrio México.

The Second Division teams lost that league in all cases except Uruguay in 1949; Moravia, in 1950 and Deportivo Nicolás Marín (currently Barrio México) in 1963 that did manage to win it and ascend.

List of teams that have won their right to play the championship in the Costa Rican First Division.