Prima Categoria is the name of a level of football in Italy

Italy

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. It is considered to be the eighth level in the Italian football league system

Italian football league system

The Italian football league system is a series of interconnected leagues and national tournaments, set up by the Italian Football Federation , for football clubs in Italy with one club hailing from San Marino.-History:...

 and is organized by the National Amateur League

Lega Nazionale Dilettanti

The Lega Nazionale Dilettanti is the giant league which rules the amatorial football of FIGC in Italy.Founded in 1959 in Rome, it has many leagues inside: a national league, the Interregional Commettee, which organizes the Serie D championship from 1981, nineteen regional leagues called Regional...

 by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Promozione

Promozione

Promozione is the name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the 7th level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Promozione level progresses to their closest regional league in the Eccellenza level...

 level. Depending on each league's local rules, a number of teams each year are relegated from each league, to the ninth level of Italian football, the Seconda Categoria

Seconda Categoria

Seconda Categoria is the actual name of a level of football in Italy. It is considered to be the 9th level in the Italian football league system. Each individual league winner within the Seconda Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Prima Categoria level...

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This level of Italian football is completely amateur and is run on a regional level.

History

Originally, the first category was the equivalent of the Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

, until 1922 this was in fact the official name of the Italian top division. Below is the list of winners of the First Category.

Features

Established recently in 1959, is organized by regional committees of the FIGC, and therefore does not have a predefined structure. The number of rounds in which the league is at the regional level varies, as does the number of teams participating in each league, today www.datasport.it seconds (source) teams in the first category are 1686.

Promotion

The promoted teams go in and promotion are the winners of their group. Varies from region to region, there is a mechanism that allows the playoffs to winning teams to be included in a list that would result (in case of vacancies) in the Promotion.

Groups

• Abruzzo: 5 groups of 16 teams
• Basilicata: 2 rounds of 16 and 15 teams
• Calabria: 4 groups of 16 teams
• Campania: 8 groups of 16 teams
• Emilia-Romagna: 8 groups of 16 teams
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia: 3 groups of 16 teams
• Lazio: 8 groups of 16 teams
• Liguria: 4 groups of 16 teams
• Lombardia: 12 groups of 16 teams
• Brands: 4 groups of 16 teams
• Molise: 3 groups of 16 teams
• Ontario (including Valle d'Aosta): 8 groups of 16 teams
• Puglia: 3 groups of 16 teams
• Sardinia: 4 groups of 16 teams
• Sicilian: 8 groups of 14 teams
• Tuscany: 6 groups of 16 teams
• Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 5 groups of 14 teams on a provincial basis
• Italy: 3 groups of 16 teams
• Veneto: 8 groups of 16 teams (7 days) and 15 teams (one group)

Total: 1,668 teams.

See also

• Italian football league system
  Italian football league system
  The Italian football league system is a series of interconnected leagues and national tournaments, set up by the Italian Football Federation , for football clubs in Italy with one club hailing from San Marino.-History:...
  
  
• Italian Football Championship
  Italian Football Championship
  The Italian Football Championship was the most senior football championship in Italy from the 1897/1898 season to the 1921/1922 season. In that last season, a concurrent championship, the Prima Divisione, was played by the richest clubs, which wanted to improve their income with a more elitarian...
  
  
• Prima Divisione
  Prima Divisione
  Prima Divisione was the name of the first level of the Italian Football Championship from 1921 to 1926. The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the old format of the championship, based on plethoric regional groups...