Regional Second Division (Namibia)
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The Regional Second Division is an association of 14 regional
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leagues which together comprise the third-tier of
football in Namibia Football in Namibia is governed by the Namibia Football Association. The Namibia Premier Football League is the main domestic league. The Namibia national football team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but has twice been runner up in ...
. It operates under the auspices of the
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Organization

Each of the 14
regions of Namibia Namibia uses regions as its first-level subnational administrative divisions. Since 2013, it has 14 regions which in turn are subdivided into Constituencies of Namibia, 121 constituencies. Upon Independence of Namibia, Namibian independence, th ...
operates its own Regional Second Division league. In 2019 a
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Normalisation Committee worked with the regional associations to meet requirements to be in compliance as members of the NFA.


Promotion

The winners of each regional league enters a play-off competition to determine promotion to the
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References

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Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...