The
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is at the top of the structure. It is the top flight in Bosnian club football and has 10 teams. The League champion is also the champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina and has the right to play in the
UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds. The bottom two teams of the table are relegated to the second level of the competition. The second tier is divided into two leagues – the
First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
First League of the Republika Srpska – both containing 14 clubs. Relegated teams from the Premier League are demoted to the second-level competition in the next season. Geographical location is the criterion for decided decision in which one of these two leagues the teams will play. The winner of each league is promoted to the Premier League, and the bottom teams are relegated. The number of relegated teams depends on how many teams enter from the Premier League and the Third Divisions. Third-level football is even more dispersed. Each league is associated with a different geographical area. In the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are
four second divisions, and in
Republika Srpska two second divisions. The same principle of promotion and relegation is used, so the league winners are promoted to the appropriate second-level league, and clubs at the bottom of the table are relegated to the lower levels. There are cantonal football associations in nine of the
ten cantons which make up the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They each organize clubs into one or more leagues, depending on the number of clubs they control. In Republika Srpska, which has no cantons, there are instead four football regions, each of which has a league. The first leagues in the Federation cantons and the regional leagues in Republika Srpska constitute the fourth level of club football. Further down, there are many different types of organization. Some cantons (with many clubs) have second leagues, and there are also municipality and inter-municipality leagues for clubs not associated with any cantonal or regional league. ==System==