List of Zimbabwean football champions


The association football champions of Zimbabwe are the winners of the highest league in Zimbabwean football, which is the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. The ZPSL was founded in 1980, after Zimbabwe's internationally recognised independence, as a successor to the Rhodesia National Football League, which started in 1962. Originally governed by the Zimbabwe Football Association – the renamed Rhodesia Football Association, created in 1965 – the ZPSL has run itself since 1993.
The first edition of the Rhodesia National Football League took place in 1962, when Bulawayo Rovers won both the inaugural league championship and Cup of Rhodesia to claim the Double in the first season of nationally organised competition in Rhodesia. Since then, the championship has been largely dominated by teams from the country's capital, Harare, and second-largest city, Bulawayo: all but three of the 50 championships contested in the country have been won by a team based in one of these two cities.
The record 22 titles won by Dynamos is more than twice as many as the number won by the second-most decorated, Bulawayo's Highlanders, who have won seven. Dynamos and Highlanders share the record for most consecutive championships won, each having won four titles in succession. Harare-based Dynamos are the most successful team in cup competition, with ten cup-final victories to their name, one more than CAPS United. Unlike the league, the cup has been won numerous times by clubs from outside the traditional centres of Harare and Bulawayo; provincial sides such as Hwange, Mhangura and Masvingo United have claimed the cup on multiple occasions. The Double has been achieved 11 times in Zimbabwean football; since Bulawayo Rovers won both the league and cup in 1962, the Double has been repeated by Dynamos, Zimbabwe Saints, Black Rhinos, Highlanders and CAPS United.

Champions

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Club won the Double during that season
A running tally of the total number of championships won by each club is kept in brackets.
A running tally of the total number of cups won by each club is kept in brackets.

Rhodesia National Football League (1962–79)

SeasonLeague champions
League runners-upCup winners
1962Bulawayo Rovers Salisbury CityBulawayo Rovers
1963Salisbury CalliesSalisbury Callies
1964Bulawayo Rovers
1965Salisbury City Wanderers
1966Bulawayo RoversMangula
1967State House Tornados Salisbury Callies
1968Bulawayo Sables Arcadia United
1969Bulawayo Sables Arcadia United
1970Wankie
1971Arcadia United Chibuku Shumba
1972Salisbury Sables Mangula
1973Metal Box HighlandersWankie
1974Salisbury Sables Chibuku Shumba
1975Chibuku Shumba Salisbury Callies
1976Dynamos
1977Zimbabwe Saints Zimbabwe Saints
1978Risco Steel
1979CAPS United Zimbabwe SaintsZimbabwe Saints

Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (1980–present)

SeasonLeague champions
League runners-upCup winners
1980Black AcesCAPS United
1981Rio TintoCAPS United
1982CAPS United
1983Dynamos Rio TintoCAPS United
1984Black Rhinos Arcadia UnitedBlack Rhinos
1985Dynamos HighlandersDynamos
1986Dynamos CAPS UnitedDynamos
1987Black Rhinos DynamosZimbabwe Saints
1988Zimbabwe Saints DynamosDynamos
1989Dynamos Zimbabwe SaintsDynamos
1990Highlanders CAPS UnitedHighlanders
1991Dynamos Black RhinosWankie
1992Black Aces CAPS UnitedCAPS United
1993Highlanders CAPS UnitedTanganda
1994Dynamos HighlandersBlackpool
1995Dynamos BlackpoolChapungu United
1996CAPS United DynamosDynamos
1997Dynamos CAPS UnitedCAPS United
1998–99Highlanders DynamosCAPS United
2000Highlanders Amazulu
2001Highlanders AmazuluHighlanders
2002Highlanders Black RhinosMasvingo United
2003Amazulu HighlandersDynamos
2004CAPS United HighlandersCAPS United
2005CAPS United Masvingo UnitedMasvingo United
2006Highlanders Motor ActionMwana Africa
2007Dynamos HighlandersDynamos
2008Monomotapa United DynamosCAPS United
2009Gunners Dynamos
2010Motor Action Dynamos
2011Dynamos FC PlatinumDynamos
2012Dynamos HighlandersDynamos
2013Dynamos HighlandersHighlanders
2014Dynamos ZPC KaribaFC Platinum
2015Chicken Inn DynamosHarare City
2016CAPS United FC PlatinumNgezi Platinum
2017FC Platinum DynamosHarare City
2018FC Platinum Ngezi PlatinumTriangle United

Total titles won