This article is about four of many currently-inactive or dormant association football cup competitions organized in Zambia as documented by the RSSSF. For the current competition, see ABSA Cup.
According to records from the RSSSF, there were many association footballcup competitions organized in Zambia since 1962, some of which are the Independence Cup, the Zambian Challenge Cup (both organized in 1961), the Champion of Champions Cup (organized in 1974) and Zambian Coca-Cola Cup, the latter which began in 2001. These competitions are either inactive or were played no more as of 2009.[1]
Its winners did not always enter the African Cup Winners' Cup; an entry was often reserved for the winners of the African Cup of Champions Clubs (now the CAF Champions League) which usually contested between four clubs.
It got rebranded as the Mosi Cup in 1993 and has not been played or organized since its last edition in 2007.
The Champion of Champions Cup was a cup competition in Zambian football active from 1974 to 1993. It was played by the teams who finished in the top 4 places in the country's football league system (the equivalence of the "GHALCA Top 4" in Ghana). It was named under various sponsorships; Cadbury Schweppes (1974-1975), the Zambian State Lottery (1976–78) and the Zambia Railways (1979). The winners of this competition occasionally get invited to compete in the African Cup Winners' Cup.[1]
The Northern Rhodesian Challenge Cup is a currently-defunct knockout tournament in Zambian football created in 1962 and originally played by teams featuring all-white teams. Following Northern Rhodesia's independence as Zambia and the competition's rebranding as the Zambian Challenge Cup in 1964, it included teams featuring black people in the country.[1]
The competition was contested by the top 8 teams of the country's league system (the equivalence of South Africa's MTN 8).
It was known by sponsorship names; the BAT Challenge Cup (1962–68), the Shell Challenge Cup (1969–1981) and the BP Challenge Cup/BP Top Eight Cup (since 1982) as sponsors withdrew from the country.[1]
The Zambian Coca-Cola Cup is a Zambian seasonal association footballclub tournament sponsored by Coca-Cola which was active from 2001 to 2007.[1] It is succeeded by the Barclays Cup (now the ABSA Cup).
