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Green Buffaloes F.C.

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Green Buffaloes
Full nameGreen Buffaloes Football Club
Nickname(s)
  • GBFC
  • Mboo
  • International Buffalo
  • Go, fight and Conquer
Founded1965; 59 years ago (1965) (as Zambian Army F.C.)
GroundIndependence Stadium, Lusaka
Capacity10,000
ChairmanLt.Col Jack Mbewe
ManagerMasauso Tembo
LeagueZambia Super League
2023–2411th
Current season

Green Buffaloes Football Club is a Zambian professional football club based in Lusaka that competes in the Zambia Super League, the top flight of Zambian football. Founded in 1965 as the Zambian Army Football Club, an association football extension of the Zambian Army, it plays its home matches at the Independence Stadium.

Having previously dominated Zambian football from the early 1970s until the late 1990s, it is one of the country's most successful club winning every single current and historic title on offer, including 5 League Cups, 4 Shield Challenge Cups, 3 Charity Shields, 2 Heroes and Unit Cups, 3 Champion of Champions Cups and one each of the Zambian Challenge Cup, Mosi Cup Champions and Barclays/ABSA Cup.

Green Buffaloes is among four Zambian teams to have won three league titles in a row. In 1975 and 1979, the club won the domestic treble of the League, Champion of Champions and Shield Challenge Cup titles.

Honours

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Competition Year(s) Won
League Cups 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
Shell and BP Challenge Cup 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
Charity Shield 1974, 1978, 1980
Champion of Champions Cup 1975, 1979, 1982
Heroes and Unity Cup 1978, 1986
BP Challenge Cup 1985
Mosi Cup 2005
Barclays/ABSA Cup 2015

Performances in CAF competitions

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2006 – preliminary round
2010 – first round
2017 – preliminary round
2018 – preliminary round

References

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