Zambia Super League

The Zambia Super League, known as the MTN Super League for sponsorship purposes, is the top association football league created in 1962 by the Football Association of Zambia. The winners of the league each season receive ZMW1,000,000 ($40000) and a copper trophy engraved with their team name.

Zambia Super League

Organising body	FAZ
Founded	1962; 63 years ago (1962)
Country	Zambia
Confederation	CAF
Number of clubs	18
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	National League
Domestic cup(s)	ABSA Cup
League cup(s)	Samuel Ndhlovu Charity Shield
International cup(s)	CAF Champions League CAF Confederation Cup
Current champions	Power Dynamos F.C. (2024–25)
Most premierships	Nkana (13 titles)
Broadcaster(s)	SuperSport
Current: 2024–25 Zambia Super League

Format

The league is contested by 18 teams every season. Until 2018, it was scheduled to run within the calendar year from March to December. Since then, owing to the decision by CAF on 20 July 2017 to switch from their traditional across-year runtime/schedule of their club competitions to align with that of the UEFA/European calendar,^[1][2] it currently runs from August to May.

After each season and assuming Zambia is among the top 12 countries in the current CAF 5-year ranking system, the top 4 teams will qualify for CAF competitions; the top 2 qualify for the CAF Champions League and the two teams finishing below the top 2 positions on the league table qualifies for the CAF Confederation Cup. The teams who finish in the final 3 positions of the table are relegated to the National League and replaced with the teams who finish in the top 3 positions of the National League table.

Broadcasting

The league's broadcaster since 2007 is South Africa-based SuperSport, which telecasts 126 of the current 306 matches each season, all outside Southern Africa.^[3][4] Seven matches were added to the telecast schedule since the 2022–23 season.

Sponsorship

In 2018, FAZ struck a deal with the MTN Group of South Africa to sponsor the league being worth initially $4 million (ZMW 7,571,280) for 5 years^[5] which has since been extended till date.^{[6][7][8][9][10]} Via telecasting the league on SuperSport, the prize money given to each league team is ZMW300,000 ($ 15,848.52). The league runners-up receives ZMW 350,000 ($ 18,489.94) and the other 16 teams receive ZMW 200,000 ($ 10,565.68).^[4][3]

Position	Team	Prize Money (ZMW/K)	Telecast Prize	Total
1	ZESCO United	500,000	300,000	800,000
2	Green Eagles	350,000	300,000	650,000
3	Buildcon	200,000	300,000	500,000
4	Zanaco	200,000	300,000	500,000

2023–24 clubs

• Buildcon
• Forest Rangers
• Green Buffaloes
• Green Eagles
• Kabwe Warriors
• Nchanga Rangers
• Lumwana Radiants
• Trident
• Maestro United
• Kansanshi Dynamos
• NAPSA Stars
• Nkana
• ZESCO United
• Nkwazi
• Power Dynamos
• Prison Leopards
• Red Arrows
• Zanaco

Champions

The previous league winners are as follows:

• 1962: Roan United (Luanshya)
• 1963: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1964: City of Lusaka (Lusaka)
• 1965: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1966: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1967: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1968: Kabwe Warriors (Kabwe)
• 1969: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1970: Kabwe Warriors (Kabwe)
• 1971: Kabwe Warriors (Kabwe)
• 1972: Kabwe Warriors (Kabwe)
• 1973: Zambia Army (Lusaka)
• 1974: Zambia Army (Lusaka)
• 1975: Green Buffaloes (Lusaka)
• 1976: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1977: Green Buffaloes (Lusaka)
• 1978: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1979: Green Buffaloes (Lusaka)
• 1980: Nchanga Rangers (Chingola)
• 1981: Green Buffaloes (Lusaka)
• 1982: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1983: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1984: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (1)
• 1985: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1986: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1987: Kabwe Warriors (Kabwe)
• 1988: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1989: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1990: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1991: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (2)
• 1992: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1993: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 1994: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (3)
• 1995: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1996: Mufulira Wanderers (Mufulira)
• 1997: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (4)
• 1998: Nchanga Rangers (Chingola)
• 1999: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 2000: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (5)
• 2001: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 2002: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2003: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2004: Red Arrows (Lusaka)
• 2005: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2006: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2007: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2008: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2009: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2010: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2011: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (6)
• 2012: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2013: Nkana (Kitwe)
• 2014: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2015: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2016: Zanaco (Lusaka)
• 2017: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2018: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2019: ZESCO United (Ndola)
• 2019–20: Nkana (Kitwe)^[11][12][13]
• 2020–21: ZESCO United (Ndola)^[14][15][16]
• 2021–22: Red Arrows (Lusaka) ^{[17][18][19][20]}
• 2022–23: Power Dynamos (Kitwe) (7)^[21][22][23]
• 2023–24: Red Arrows (Lusaka)^[24]
• 2024–25: Power Dynamos F.C. (Kitwe) (8)^[25]

Performances by club

Club	Location	Titles
Nkana	Kitwe	13
Mufulira Wanderers	Mufulira	9
ZESCO United	Ndola	9
Power Dynamos	Kitwe	8
Zanaco	Lusaka	7
Green Buffaloes	Lusaka	6
Kabwe Warriors	Kabwe	5
Red Arrows	Lusaka	3
Nchanga Rangers	Chingola	2
City of Lusaka	Lusaka	1
Roan United	Luanshya	1

Qualification for CAF competitions

Association ranking for the 2025–26 CAF club season

The association ranking for the 2025–26 CAF Champions League and the 2025–26 CAF Confederation Cup will be based on results from each CAF club competition from 2020–21 to the 2024–25 season.

Legend

• CL: CAF Champions League
• CC: CAF Confederation Cup
• ≥: Associations points might increase on basis of its clubs performance in 2024–25 CAF club competitions
•   Associations ranked 1–12 are eligible to enter two teams in each CAF club competition.

Rank			Association	2020–21 (× 1)		2021–22 (× 2)		2022–23 (× 3)		2023–24 (× 4)		2024–25 (× 5)		Total
2025	2024	Mvt		CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC
1	1	—	Egypt	8	3	7	4	8	2.5	7	7	10	4	190.5
2	2	—	Morocco	4	6	9	5	8	2	2	4	5	5	142
3	4	+1	South Africa	8	2	5	4	4	3	4	1.5	9	3	131
4	3	-1	Algeria	6	5	7	1	6	5	2	3	5	5	130
5	6	+1	Tanzania	3	0.5	0	2	3	4	6	0	2	4	82.5
6	5	-1	Tunisia	4	3	5	1	4	2	6	1	3	0.5	82.5
7	8	+1	Angola	1	0	5	0	2	0	3	1.5	2	2	55
8	7	-1	DR Congo	4	0	0	3	1	2	4	0	2	0	45
9	9	—	Sudan	3	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	3	0	41
10	11	+1	Ivory Coast	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	0	1	2	38
11	10	-1	Libya	0	0.5	0	5	0	0.5	0	3	0	0	24
12	12	—	Nigeria	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	21
13	15	+2	Mali	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0.5	18.5
14	14	—	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	16
15	13	-2	Guinea	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0.5	0	0	12
16	19	+3	Botswana	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.5	8.5
17	21	+4	Senegal	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
18	17	-1	Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	8
19	18	-1	Congo	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.5	0	0	7
20	16	-4	Cameroon	0	3	0	0.5	1	0	0	0	0	0	7
21	22	+1	Togo	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
22	22	—	Uganda	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
23	-	new	Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	2.5
24	20	-4	Zambia	0	1.5	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.5
25	24	-1	Eswatini	0	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
25	24	-1	Niger	0	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
27	26	-1	Burkina Faso	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5

Top goalscorers

Season	Goalscorer	Club	Goals
2002	Rotson Kilambe	Zanaco	17
	Zachariah Simukonda	Red Arrows
2003	Francis Kombe	Power Dynamos	18
	John Lomani	Power Dynamos
	Musonda Mweuke	Kabwe Warriors
2004	Jimmy Mumba	Green Buffaloes	15
2005	Dube Phiri	Red Arrows	28
2006	Winston Kalengo	Zanaco	28
2007	Rainford Kalaba	Zesco United	23
2008	Rodgers Kola	Zanaco	13
2016	Walter Bwalya	Nkana	24
2018	Idris Mbombo	Nkana	20
2019	Laudit Mavugo	NAPSA Stars	10
	Austin Muwowo	Forest Rangers
2019–20	James Chamanga	Power Dynamos	16
2020–21	Moses Phiri	Green Buffaloes	17
2021–22	Ricky Banda	Red Arrows	15
2022–23	Andy Boyeli	Chambishi	16
2023–24	Freddy Michael	Green Eagles	11
2024–25[26]	Idris Mbombo	Nkana	14