Currently Third League consists of four divisions that are formed by separating the country into four regions: North-West, South-West, North-East and South-East.

Nowadays, only the top teams of each division have the right to participate in the Bulgarian Cup tournament, but since 1995 the clubs in the group can participate in the Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League competition.

Each group is managed by a different administrative football zone center - Sofia for South-West, Plovdiv for South-East, Varna for North-East, and Veliko Tarnovo for North-West.

If a club does not acquire a licence, typically, the Executive Committee of the Bulgarian Football Union would decide what other team may be eligible for promotion and whether a play-off tournament is needed to fill the spot of the non-eligible club.

The bottom one to two teams of each division are directly relegated to their respective regional group at the fourth level of the pyramid.