2023–24 I-League 3 was the 1st season of the

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since its establishment in 2023. It was also the 1st season as the national fourth tier of the Indian football league system. The top three teams on the league table qualified for

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Clubs

On 22 August 2023, 15 clubs were nominated for the I-League 3rd Division by nine state FAs (

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

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Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

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, and

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). Nominations from 10 other states (

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, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu,

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, Pondicherry,

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Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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, and

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) were assessed after due diligence.

Venues

Changes from last season

Until the previous season, the

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allowed only state champions to feature in the qualifiers, but with the removal of the ISL reserve teams and the creation of the

from where teams would move to

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in the same season, state FAs were allowed to nominate a second team.

Group stage

25 teams are divided into five groups of five each. Each team will play the teams in the same group in single-legged fixtures.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Play-offs

Broadcast

Matches are broadcast by

, SportsKPI SportsCast India on their official

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channels.

Statistics

:''30 December 2023''

Top scorers

Bold indicates the player is currently active in the tournament.

Clean sheets

Discipline

Player

* Most yellow cards: 4 ** Dhiraj Chouhan * Most red cards: 1 **''6 players''

Club

* Most yellow cards: 18 **Sporting Bengaluru * Most red cards: 2 **Kerala United

Attendances

Group Stage

Playoffs

Source=I-League

References

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