Saint Helena - List of Champions

League football started on May 30, 1922, as a competition for the Championship Shield; Old Boys were the first winners in 1922 and Harts first won it in 1933; Rangers won the Shield at least once in the 1950s; Saints won the Shield at least once in the late 1950s and/or early 1960s; Spurs and Wirebirds won the Shield at least once in the 1960s; last winners of the Shield were the Bellboys in 1967.
In the early 1960s, Jamestown Sharks won a championship final against Longwood Blues.

Year    Champions            Runners-Up
1922    Old Boys
1923-25   not known
1926    Wanderers
1927-32   not known
1933    Harts
1934-37   not known
1938    Daffodils
1939-55   not known
1956    Daffodils
1957-66   not known
1967    Bellboys
1968-73   not known
1974    Bellboys 
1975-77   not known
1978    Sharks
1979    Wirebirds            Wanderers
1980    Wirebirds            Wanderers
1981    Wirebirds            Wanderers
1982    Rovers               Wanderers
1983    Rovers               Wirebirds
1984    Rovers               Wirebirds
1985    Rovers               Bellboys
1986    Rovers               Bellboys
1987    Wirebirds            Rovers
1988    Rovers               Bellboys
1989    Bellboys             Wirebirds
1990    Bellboys             Rovers
1991    Rovers               Bellboys
1992    Bellboys             Crystal Rangers
1993    Harts                Bellboys
1994    Harts                Rovers
1995    Rovers               Bellboys     
1996    Crystal Rangers      Rovers
1997    Rovers               Bellboys 
1998    Rovers               Crystal Rangers
1999    Bellboys             Rovers
2000    Raiders              Bellboys
2001    Rovers               Harts
2002    Harts                Bellboys      
2003    Bellboys             Harts     
2004    Bellboys             Fugees        
2005    Harts                Bellboys   
2006    Harts                Crystal Rangers
2007    Harts                Scouts 
2008    Raiders              Harts
2009    Raiders              Harts
2010    Bellboys             Harts
2011    Rovers               Harts
2012    Rovers               Harts
2013    Wirebirds            Harts
2014    Rovers               Harts
2015    Harts                Rovers
2016    Rovers               Harts
2017    Rovers               Harts
2018    Harts                Rovers
2019    Rovers               Harts
2020    Rovers               Bellboys
2021    Wirebirds            Rovers
2022    Rovers               Wirebirds   
2023    Bellboys             Rovers
2024    Rovers               Bellboys

Number of Titles since 1979 (46; runners-up finishes (46) between square brackets)

NB: in 1979 Francis Plain re-opened.

20 [ 9] Rovers        [did not win any titles between 1968 and 1978]

 8 [12] Bellboys
 8 [12] Harts 

 6 [ 4] Wirebirds    

 3      Raiders        

 1 [ 3] Crystal Rangers

   [ 4] Wanderers
   [ 1] Fugees 
   [ 1] Scouts

NB: in 1984, there also was a six-a-side championship, won by Wirebirds;
    Wirebirds were league runners-up in the late 70s, in a year in which they
    won the knock-out cup.


Division Two

Year    Champions            Runners-Up
1980    Hotspurs             Police
1981    Refugees             Turtles
1982    Bellboys             Loose Ends
1983-85   no competition
1986    Hippies              Pioneers
1987    Saints               Harts
1988    Harts                Hippies
1989    Refugees             Hotspurs
1990    Crystal Rangers      Hippies 
1991    Longwood  Blues      Hotspurs
1992    Wirebirds            Wanderers
1993    Saints               Wideawakes
1994    Wirebirds            Olympic
1995    Raiders              Marauders      
1996    Wanderers            Refugees
1997    Wideawakes           Rangers
1998    Raiders              Wolves
1999    Spurs                Rangers
2000    Wirebirds            Alleyvaiders
2001    Wanderers            Fugees 
2002    Alleyvaiders         Wanderers
2003-13   no competition
2014    Wirebirds   
2015      no competition

District Competition

1999    Raiders [?]
2000      not known
2001      not known
2002    Longwood
2003    Jamestown
2004    Longwood
2005    Longwood
2006    Half Tree Hollow
2007    Half Tree Hollow
2008    St Paul's      
2009    Half Tree Hollow  
2010      presumably not played
2011    Half Tree Hollow  
2012      presumably not played
2013    Half Tree Hollow  
2014    Longwood
2015    Half Tree Hollow  
2016    St Paul's      
2017    Jamestown
2018    St Paul's   
2019    Jamestown
2020    Jamestown
2021    Half Tree Hollow  
2022    Jamestown
2023    Half Tree Hollow 
2024    Half Tree Hollow

About this document

Partial source: Independent

Prepared and maintained by Hans Schöggl for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Hans Schöggl
Last updated: 17 Oct 2024