The Turkish football system is divided into the following leagues.
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, Nevşehir1 club — Ağrı, Amasya, Ardahan, Bartın, Bayburt, Bingöl, Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş, Niğde, Sinop, TunceliThe 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 Istanbul6 clubs each from Izmir5 clubs each from Ankara, Balıkesir, Bursa, Kocaeli, Manisa4 clubs each from Aydın, Kütahya, Sakarya3 clubs each from Adana, Afyon, Antalya, Denizli, Eskişehir, Hatay, Kayseri, Konya, Mersin, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Zonguldak2 clubs each from Bilecik, Çanakkale, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Giresun, Isparta, Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Muğla, Ordu, Rize, Samsun, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Uşak, Van, Yalova1 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, YozgatThe club who finishes first gains promotion to the Turkish TFF Third League.
