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Fourth tier in Indonesian football league system
Football league
Each province will hold a provincial league, they are followed by amateur clubs without a limit of participants with different competition formats, the difference in the format is due to the different number of participants in each province. Furthermore, the teams that qualify from the provincial phase will compete in national phase.
National phase
A total of 80 teams will enter this phase.
First round: 80 teams are divided into sixteen groups of 5. Each group is played on a home tournament basis. Winner and runner-up of each group advance to the second round.
Second round: 32 teams which are the winners and runners-up from each group of the first round. They divided into eight groups of 4 and each winner and runner-up advances to the third round.
Third round: 16 teams are divided into two groups. Each group is played on a home tournament basis. Same as previous round, the winner and runner-up of each group advance to the fourth round.
Fourth round: 8 teams are divided into two groups. The three best teams of each group are promoted to the Liga 2. The winner of each group also advances to the final.
Final: The 2 group winners from the fourth round play in the final match. The final played as a single match.
Teams
Provincial phase
The table below shows the number of teams participating in the 38 provincial leagues and the number of slots allocated to each league for the national phase in the 2024-25 season.
Football in Indonesia