For regional or city selection during colonial time. Played at least once, in a week-long competition with the final on May 1, 1950, at the Stade Leopold II in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), with an attendance of over 40,000. 1950 Katanga 2-1 Léopoldville Two months after this win, Katanga played in a 'sub-Saharan championship'.
NB: until at least 1974 and probably until 1978 the Coupe du Congo/Zaïre
also served as the national championship, with its winners qualifying
for the CAF Champions Cup.
Coupe de l'A.R.S.C.U.
1958 FC St.-Eloi (Lubumbashi) 5-1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1959 not finished
1960-63 not held
Coupe du Congo
1964 CS Imana (Kinshasa) 3-1 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1965 AS Bilima (Kinshasa)
1966 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1967 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1968 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1969 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1970 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1971 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
Coupe du Zaïre
1972/73 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1973 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1974 CS Imana (Kinshasa) 1-1 0-0 SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji Mayi) [Imana on away goal]
1975 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1976 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1977 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1978 CS Imana (Kinshasa) 2-1 1-1 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1979 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1980 Lubumbashi Sport
1981 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
Challenge Papa Kalala
1982 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1983 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1984 CS Imana (Kinshasa) 1-2 1-0 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [Imana on away goals]
1985 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-0 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1986 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1987 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1988 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1989 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
Coupe du Zaïre
1990 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1991 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1992 US Bilombe
1993 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1994 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-0 AS Bantous (Mbuji-Mayi)
1995 AC Sodigraf (Kinshasa) 4-0 Mbongo Sports
1996 AS Dragons (Kinshasa)
Coupe du Congo
1997 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 2-1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1998 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 1-0 AS Sucrière (Kwilu Ngongo)
1999 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 3-2 AS Paulino (Kinshasa) [aet]
2000 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) 2-0 AS Saint-Luc (Kananga)
2001 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 3-0 AS Veti Club (Matadi)
2002 US Kenya (Lubumbashi) 2-1 SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji-Mayi)
2003 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-0 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
2004 CS Cilu (Lukala) 1-0 AS Saint-Luc (Kananga)
2005 AS Vita Kabasha (Goma) 1-1 CS Cilu (Lukala) [4-2 pen]
2006 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 4-1 AS Dragons (Kinshasa)
2007 AS Maniema Union (Kindu) 2–1 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
2008 OC Bukavu Dawa (Bukavu) 2-0 DC Virunga (Goma)
2009 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 0-0 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) [5-4 pen]
2010 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 3-0 AS Ndoki a Ndombe (Boma)
2011 US Tshinkunku (Kananga) 1-1 AS Veti Club (Matadi) [4-3 pen]
2012 CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi) 4-0 AS Veti Club (Matadi)
2013 FC MK Etanchéité (Kinshasa) 1-0 AS Vutuka (Kikwit)
2014 FC MK Etanchéité (Kinshasa) 1-0 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
2015 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) 1-0 Katumbi Football Académie (Lubumbashi)
2016 FC Renaissance (Kinshasa) 2-0 CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi)
2017 AS Maniema Union (Kindu) 1-1 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) [4-1 pen]
2018 AS Nyuki (Butembo) 2-1 Jeunesse Sportive (Kinshasa)
2019 AS Maniema Union (Kindu) 1-1 FC Renaissance (Kinshasa) [5-3 pen]
2020 abandoned
2021 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji-Mayi)
2022 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 AC Rangers (Kinshasa)
2023 cancelled
Total number of wins (59):
15 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) [includes CS Imana] [*2]
10 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [*1]
6 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) [includes TP Englebert]
5 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) [includes AS Bilima]
4 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
3 AS Maniema Union (Kindu)
FC Saint-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
2 FC MK Etanchéité (Kinshasa)
1 US Bilombe (Bilombe)
OC Bukavu Dawa (Bukavu)
CS Cilu (Lukala)
CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi)
US Kenya (Lubumbashi)
Lubumbashi Sport
AS Nyuki (Butembo)
FC Renaissance (Kinshasa)
AC Sodigraf (Kinshasa)
US Tshinkunku (Kananga) [reported to have also won 1985 final against AS Bilima]
AS Vita Kabasha (Goma)
[*1] until the end of the 2002 season, AS Vita had won 24 championships
in the Kinshasa league, twice the Challenge Papa Kalala (1982-1989),
apparently entitling them to enter the African Cup Winners Cup (this
must refer to their cup wins 1982 and 1983), and eleven times the
Coupe du Congo (entitling the winners to enter the African Champions
Cup between 1964 and 1989 as well as from 1992 to 1995 (with the losing
finalists entering the Cup Winners Cup apart from the period 1982-1989?)
and entitling the winners to enter the African Cup Winners Cup in 1990,
1991 and since 1996 (with the introduction of the Coupe de la LINAFOOT).
[*2] DC Motema Pembe won the Challenge Papa Kalala twice (this must refer
to their cup wins 1984 (as Imana) and 1985) and the Coupe de
L'Indépendance three times. They were forced to change name from Imana
to Motema Pembe in 1985 by CAF following crowd trouble in their African
Cup Winners Cup match against Dragons de l'Ouémé; in 2007 it was
reported that they had been champions of Congo 9 times in addition to
their 4 LINAFOOT titles.
2001 Utexafrica (Kinshasa) 0-0 Inter (Kinshasa) [aet, 4-1 pen] 2002 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 Inter (Kinshasa) 2003 abandoned NB: tournament not held since
2002 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi) - US Kenya (Lubumbashi) [Dec 15, 2002; result not known]
2003 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) w/o AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [Feb 29, 2004; Vita withdrew]
2004 CS Cilu (Lukala) 1-1 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) [6-5 pen] [Jan 23, 2005]
2005 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-1 AS Vita Kabasha (Goma) [Feb 12, 2006]
2016 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) 3-1 FC Renaissance du Congo (Kinshasa) [Aug 28, 2016]
Number of League-and-Cup Doubles (1)
NB: only for seasons in which the LINAFOOT (Ligue Nationale de Football) was
played (i.e. 1990, 1991, and since 1998); note that in many seasons since,
the cup tournament involved clubs already eliminated from the championship,
while in many seasons before, the cup winners were automatically champions.
1 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) [2000]
Played between the EPFKIN champions and the newly promoted clubs at the start of a new season. (So the 2001 edition involved the 2000 EPFKIN champions and the 2000 winners of the feeder leagues.) 2001 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) bt AC Bandal (Kinshasa) 2002 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2-0 FC Système (Kinshasa) 2003 Olympic Club Kinshasa bt AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2004 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 AC Kintainers (Kinshasa) 2005 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 4-0 FC Nzakimuena (Kinshasa) 2006 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2-0 ATT Sport (Kinshasa) 2007 AS Pharmagros (Kinshasa) 1-0 FC Tornado (Kinshasa) 2008 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 3-0 US Amazone (Kinshasa) 2009 ATT Sport (Kinshasa) 1-1 Stade Kinois (Kinshasa) [4-1 pen] 2010 US Filas (Kinshasa) 3-2 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2011-13 not known 2014 AC Bandal (Kinshasa) 3-1 New Jack (Kinshasa)
Sources: [Oli 95], [Ric 99].
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