Turkish football league system
The Turkish football system is divided into the following leagues.
| 1 | Süper Lig (3 Teams Relegated) 18 clubs | |||||||||||
| 2 | (3 Teams Promoted) TFF 1. Lig (3 Teams Relegated) 18 clubs | |||||||||||
| 3 | TFF 2. Lig White Group 18 clubs |
TFF 2. Lig Red Group 18 clubs | ||||||||||
| 4 | TFF 3. Lig Group 1 19 clubs |
TFF 3. Lig Group 2 19 clubs |
TFF 3. Lig Group 3 19 clubs | |||||||||
| 5 | Regional Amateur League Regional | |||||||||||
| 6 | Amatör Futbol Ligleri Local | |||||||||||
| 7 | Amateur First Division Local | |||||||||||
| 8 | Amateur Second Division Local | |||||||||||
Promotion and relegation can occur through every league. This means a club in the Turkish Regional Amateur League may be promoted to the top flight Süper Lig. There are two stages to being promoted to the Turkish Third League. First, provinces who do not have professional clubs send a club or clubs to play. These provinces are:
- 2 clubs — Düzce, Edirne, Kırklareli, Nevşehir
- 1 club — Ağrı, Amasya, Ardahan, Bartın, Bayburt, Bingöl, Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş, Niğde, Sinop, Tunceli
The two clubs who finished first and second gain promotion. In the second stage, the rest of the amateur clubs join in and play against each other. These provinces are:
- 12 clubs each from Istanbul
- 6 clubs each from Izmir
- 5 clubs each from Ankara, Balıkesir, Bursa, Kocaeli, Manisa
- 4 clubs each from Aydın, Kütahya, Sakarya
- 3 clubs each from Adana, Afyon, Antalya, Denizli, Eskişehir, Hatay, Kayseri, Konya, Mersin, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Zonguldak
- 2 clubs each from Bilecik, Çanakkale, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Giresun, Isparta, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Muğla, Ordu, Rize, Samsun, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Uşak, Van, Yalova
- 1 club each from Adıyaman, Aksaray, Artvin, Batman, Bolu, Burdur, Çankırı, Çorum, Erzincan, Gümüşhane, Iğdır, Karabük, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Kilis, Mardin, Osmaniye, Siirt, Şırnak, Tokat, Yozgat
The club who finishes first gains promotion to the Turkish TFF Third League.[1]
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