IV liga (Czwarta Liga) is the fifth level of the

Polish football league system The Polish football league system is a series of leagues for club football in Poland. The men's system As of 2022/23. The Ekstraklasa lies at the top of the Polish football system, followed by I liga, II liga and III liga. From 5th tier there is ...

. The current structure of IV liga was created in season 2000/01 after introducing new

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. 16 clubs, one from each voivodeship (province), are promoted to

III liga III liga (Trzecia liga) is a Polish football league that sits in the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season, III liga referred to a league at the third tier (now called II liga) but this was ch ...

. The bottom clubs are relegated to

Liga okręgowa The liga okręgowa (in some voivodeship named klasa okręgowa, English: regional league) is the 6th tier of the Polish football league system. The league is split into 58 groups, and there are present in every voivodeship. Teams promoted from l ...

V liga V, or v, is the twenty-second and fifth-to-last Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in Englis ...

(depending on the voivodeship). Until the end of the 2007/08 season IV liga lay at fourth tier of league system but this was changed with the formation of the

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 cl ...

as the highest level of football league in Poland.

Groups

In 2019/20 season, there are 20Ligi regionalne 2019/20
/ref> parallel groups of IV liga. There are two groups in 4 voivodeships but only one club can be promoted after winning the play-offs between the winners of these two groups. * dolnośląska (Lower Silesia) - 2 groups * kujawsko-pomorska (Cuyavia-Pomerania) * lubelska (Lublin) * lubuska (Lubusz) * łódzka (Łódź) *

małopolska Lesser Poland, often known by its Polish name Małopolska ( la, Polonia Minor), is a historical region situated in southern and south-eastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Kraków. Throughout centuries, Lesser Poland developed a s ...

(Lesser Poland) - 2 groups * mazowiecka (Mazovia) - 2 groups * opolska (Opole) * podkarpacka (Subcarpathia) * podlaska (Podlasie) * pomorska (Pomerania) * śląska (Silesia) - 2 groups * świętokrzyska (Holy Cross) * warmińsko-mazurska (Warmia-Masuria) *

wielkopolska Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city ...

(Greater Poland) * zachodniopomorska (West Pomerania)

References

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

Professional sports leagues in Poland