African Clubs Who Won at Least 6 Leagues in a Row : Mamelodi Sundowns annexed the 2022/23 South Africa Premier Soccer League on Tuesday after collecting their 60th point of the season in 24 league matches in the 0-0 draw against Cape Town City as Sundowns actually win the title with six more games to spare. 

This season’s title means Masandawana have won the South Africa elite soccer championship for the sixth time in a row which is unprecedented in the history of the country’s top-flight football competition.

However Rhulani Mokwena’s side are not the first African football team to win at least six consecutive national league titles.

GhanaSportsMarket.com has looked into the history and record books of African football and presents the twenty clubs to achieve the feat.

 

1.Al Ahly ( Egypt ) – 9 times in a row between 1949 and 1959. 

Winning seasons : 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58 and 1958–59.

Note that the 1951–52 season was not played due to participation in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Also the 1954–55 campaign did not finish due to refusal of Al Ahly to comply with the federation’s penalty of playing one match away from home.

 

2.Saint-Louis FC (Seychelles) – 9 times in a row between 1985 and 1994. 

Winning seasons  : 1985 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 and 1994.

 

3.Hafia FC (Guinea) – 9 times in a row between 1971 and 1979.

Winning seasons : 1971 , 1972 , 1973 , 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 and 1979.

Young soccer fans of today may not realize that once upon a time in Guinea there was a huge football club , Hafia FC , that conquered Africa in the early 1970s. Won the CAF Champions League in 1972, 1975 and 1977 becoming the first ever club to do.

Between 1971 and 1979 they dominated the Guinea championship ; 9 titles on the trot. The 70s really belonged to Hafia.

 

4.SS Saint-Louisienne (Reunion) – 8 titles in a row between 1963 and 1970.

Winning seasons  : 1963 , 1964 , 1965 , 1966 , 1967 , 1968 , 1969 and 1970.

 

5.Sony de Elá Nguema (Equatorial Guinea) – 8 times in a row between 1984 and 1991.

Winning seasons : 1984 , 1985 , 1986 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 and 1991.

 

6.Horoya AC (Guinea) – 8 times in a row between 2015 and 2022.

Winning seasons : 2014-15 , 2015-16 , 2016-17 , 2017-18 , 2018-19 , 2019-20 , 2020-21 and 2021-22.

 

7.Silures de Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) – 7 titles in a row between 1974 and 1980. 

Winning seasons  : 1974 , 1975 , 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 and 1980.

 

8.SC Villa (Uganda) – 7 times in a row between 1998 and 2004

Winning seasons  : 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2002-03 , 2004.

 

Al Ahly ( Egypt ) – 7 times in a row between 1994 and 2000. 

Winning seasons : 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000.

 

Al Ahly ( Egypt ) – 7 times in a row between 2005 and 2011. 

Winning seasons  : 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2010–11.

This represents the third different time that Nadi Al Ahly won at least 6 Egypt national league titles in a row. The dominance of this club is out of imagination , boy.

 

9.Renaissance FC (Chad) – 6 times in a row between 2002 and 2007. 

Winning seasons  : 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and 2007.

 

10.Raja Casablanca (Morocco) – 6 times in a row between 1995 and 2001

Winning seasons  : 1995-95 , 1996-97 , 1997-98 , 1998-99 , 1999-2000 and 2000-01.

 

11.Hearts of Oak – (Ghana) – 6 times in a row between 1997 and 2002. 

Winning seasons : 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002.

The 64 Batallions are arguably the greatest ever team assembled by a Ghanaian football club. Mamma Mia.

They conquered both Ghana and Africa in the remarkable season of 2000 under the legendary coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefieyo.

Ishmael Addo , Charles Taylor , Emmanuel Osei Kuffour “the General” , Yaw Amankwah Mireku , Charles Alottey , Edmund Copspon , Sammy Adjei , Kenneth Sarpong and co were the players.

 

12.Espérance de Tunis (Tunisia) – 6 times in a row between 1998 and 1999. 

Winning seasons : 1998-99 , 1999-2000 , 2000-01 , 2001-02 , 2002-03 and 2003-04.

 

13.ASEC Mimosas (Ivory Coast) – 6 times in a row between 2000 and 2006. 

Winning seasons : 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2006.

 

14.Coton Sport FC (Cameroon) – 6 titles in a row between 2003 and 2008.

Winning seasons : 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 and 2007-08.

 

15.Red Sea FC (Eritrea) – 6 titles in a row from 2009 to 2014. 

Winning seasons : 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 and 2014.

 

16.ASAS Djibouti Télécom (Djibouti) – 6 times in a row between 2013 and 2018. 

Winning seasons : 2012-13 , 2013-14 , 2014-15 , 2015-16 , 2016-17 and 2017-18.

 

17.Stade Malien (Mali) – 6 titles in a row between 2013 and 2021.

Winning seasons : 2012-13 , 2013-14 , 2014-15 , 2016 , 2019-20 and 2020-21

 

18.Espérance de Tunis (Tunisia) – 6 times in a row between 2016 and 2022.

Winning seasons : 2016-17 , 2017-18 , 2018-19 , 2019-20 , 2020-21 and 2021-22.

 

19.Al-Ittihad (Libya) – 6 times in a row between 2005 and 2010. 

Winning seasons : 2004–05 , 2005–06 , 2006–07 , 2007–08 , 2008–09 and 2009–10. 

 

20.Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) – 6 times in a row between 2018 and 2023. 

Winning seasons : 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22 and 2022-23.