Racing Santander and Numancia, whose defeats last weekend condemned them to relegation, and second division promotion hopefuls Real Betis have all appealed against losses to teams containing players involved in the passport scandal.
"We are going to continue fighting because we have not been playing on equal terms with other teams," Racing Santander president Miguel Angel Diaz was quoted as saying in the Spanish media on Tuesday.
"It is clear that there have been teams that have played against us with illegally registered players," he added.
Last week, Racing averted chaos in the Spanish first division by withdrawing a threat not to play their penultimate league match against Malaga in protest over the passport scandal.
Their protest centres on two Brazilian-born players, Alvaro and Baiano, who played the first half of the season for Las Palmas as European Union (EU) citizens using Portuguese passports.
The players were then re-registered by the club as ‘foreigners’ following the scandal that hit football over fake passports.
Racing claim their 2-1 defeat by Las Palmas on October 29 should be overturned because, with the participation of the two Brazilians, the Canary islanders illegally fielded four non-EU players.
PERMITS CONFISCATED
The players in question have since had their work permits confiscated by government authorities and Las Palmas have said they will not play for the club again until their status has been clarified.
The weekend's defeat at Malaga meant that Racing were relegated, but if the club were awarded three points from the match against Las Palmas they would still have a slim chance of staying in the top flight. "There is still one game left and we have to win it just in case they give us back the three points we lost at Las Palmas," Racing coach Gustavo Benitez told reporters.
Spanish media reported on Tuesday that Numancia, the other club relegated at the weekend, have joined Racing in their protest.
They say the results of all games against teams with players implicated in the passport scandal should be overturned.
Rayo Vallecano's Gustavo Bartelt, Espanyol's Delio Toledo and Keita Idrissa of Oviedo are all being investigated for irregularities surrounding their acquisition of passports that allowed them to play for their clubs as European Union nationals.
The scandal has also hit the second division, with Real Betis lodging a complaint to the RFEF over Tenerife's Brazilian forward Barata, whose Italian passport has been proved to have been improperly obtained.
What has annoyed the clubs making the appeals to the federation is the slow pace of the investigations. They fear that any punishments will come too late to change results from this season.
They have contrasted the delays with the speed with which second division Getafe had three points deducted by the RFEF after their manager accidentally fielded an ineligible line-up for three minutes of a match against Compostela.
A 2-1 victory for Getafe was turned into a 3-0 victory for Compostela, helping condemn the Madrid-based side to relegation to the third division.
