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Championship of Congo-Kinshasa/Zaire/DR Congo

1958 FC St. Eloi (Lubumbashi)
1959-62 unknown
1963 CS Imana (Kinshasa)
1964 CS Imana (Kinshasa)
1965 Dragons (Kinshasa)
1966 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1967 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1968 FC St. Eloi (Lubumbashi)
1969 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1970 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1971 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1972 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1973 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1974 CS Imana (Kinshasa)
1975 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1976 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1977 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1978 CS Imana (Kinshasa)
1979 AS Bilima (Kinshasa)
1980 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1981 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1982 AS Bilima (Kinshasa)
1983 SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji-Mayi)
1984 AS Bilima (Kinshasa)
1985 US Tshinkunku (Kananga)
1986 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1987 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1988 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1989 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1990 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1991 SCOM Mikishi (Lubumbashi)
1992 US Bilombe (Bilombe)
1993 AS Vita (Kinshasa)
1994 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1995 AS Bantous (Mbuji Mayi)
1996 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1997 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1998 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1999 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
2000 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
2001 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
2002 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
2003 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
2004 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
2005 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
2006 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
2007 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)

NB: championships organised by the Ligue Nationale de Football (1990, 1991
and those since 1998) in bold face

Total number of titles (LINAFOOT titles (12) between brackets):

11 (4) DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) [includes CS Imana] [*2]
11 (1) AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [*1]

9 (4) TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) [includes TP Englebert]

6 (2) FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi) [includes FC St. Eloi]

4 AS Bilima (Kinshasa) [includes Dragons]

1 (1) Mikishi (Lubumbashi)
1 AS Bantous (Mbuji-Mayi)
1 US Bilombe (Bilombe)
1 SM Sanga Balende (Mbuji-Mayi) [SM=Sa Majesté]
1 US Tshinkunku (Kananga)


[*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 1998(?) (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'Independance 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 (implying 2 titles are missing).