Liga 3 (

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: ''League Three'') is the lowest tier in

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. Formed as Liga Nusantara in 2014, this league occupies the third tier and consists of 2 rounds: ''provincial qualification''—held in every provinces in Indonesia, and ''national round'', competed by provincial qualifiers (number varies between provinces).

History

The competition was established after

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and

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merged in 2014. Starting in 2015, the Liga Indonesia First Division was also merged with Liga Nusantara making it the third-tier level in Indonesian football system.

Persatu Tuban Persatuan Sepakbola Tuban, commonly known as Persatu Tuban, or Persatu, is an Indonesian football club based in Tuban, East Java. They play in the Liga 3. Their nickname is ''Laskar Ronggolawe''. History They became the first champion of the ...

won the competition's first season. In 2017, ''Liga Nusantara'' was renamed to ''Liga 3'', along with

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and Indonesian Premier Division which were renamed to Liga 1 and Liga 2, respectively.

Format

The system that will be used in Liga 3 is a full competition with a home-away format. Each participating club is required to compete at least 15 times during the competition season. This is different from previous amateur competitions where the number of matches per club can be uneven. There are those who can compete more than 10, but there are also those who only competed 2 times.

Provincial round

Each province will hold a provincial round, 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 round will compete in

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Regional round

Participants are teams that have passed the

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and held in 7 regional regions: *

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* Papua The competition system is a knockout system (home and away) to get 32 slots in the

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National round

A total of 32 teams will enter this round. In this first round, 32 teams are divided into eight groups (4 groups in the West region and 4 groups in the East region). Each group is played on a home tournament basis. Winner and runner-up of each group advance to the second round. The second round features 16 teams which are the winners and runners-up from each group of the first round. Each winner advances to the third round. In the third round, eight teams are divided into two groups. Each group is played on a home tournament basis. The three best teams of each group are promoted to the Liga 2. The winner of each group also advances to the final.

Championship history

Awards

Best players

Top scorers

References

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