Prima Categoria

Prima Categoria
Organising bodyLega Nazionale Dilettanti
Founded1959
CountryItaly
ConfederationUEFA
Divisions105
Number of teams1,680
Level on pyramid1 (1898–1922)
7 (since 2014)
Promotion toPromozione
Relegation toSeconda Categoria
Websitewww.lnd.it

The Prima Categoria is the seventh level (since 2014–15) in the Italian football league system and is organized by the National Amateur League by the Regional Committees. Each individual league winner within the Prima Categoria level progresses to their closest regional league in the Promozione level. Depending on each league's local rules, a number of teams each year are relegated from each league, to the eighth level of Italian football, the Seconda Categoria.

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

From 1898–1922, the highest league in Italy was named the Prima Categoria, the predecessor to the later Prima Divisione and current Serie A. That Prima Categoria has no relation to the one of today, which was founded in 1959.


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