The tournament began, after the group stage was completed, on 5 March 2012.
The final round of the 2012 I-League 2nd Division will take place between six teams from the group stage and a seventh club, ONGC who were relegated from the 2010-11 I-League season, in a single table format in which each team plays each other twice, once in Siliguri and once in Gangtok.
[1] The top two teams at the end of the Final Round were promoted to the 2012–13 I-League replacing the two last place teams in the 2011–12 I-League.
Mohammedan were the first club to qualify for the final round.
The All India Football Federation released the schedule for the Siliguri and Gangtok phase of the Final Round on 24 February 2012.