Bahamas - List of Champions

In 1954 the first attempt to organize teams into a league or a ssociation was accomplished. The number of teams varied between six and ten during the early years, and matches were played on Sundays at Clifford Park. Soon, another league was formed where players participated for the recreational benefits of the sport and these matches were played on Saturdays. Therefore, during the late fifties and mid-sixties, two leagues, the New Providence Sunday League and the New Providence Saturday League, under the umbrella of the Bahamas Amateur Football Association, promoted and developed the sport in New Providence. In 1967 the two leagues amalgamated to form the Bahamas Football Association. In the 1970s and 1980s, Tropigas (later renamed Bears) and Nick's Body Shop (later renamed United) dominated New Providence football.


1991/92    Britam United
1992/93    Britam United
1993/94    Britam United
1994/95    Britam United 
1995/96    Freeport RFC  [*]          3-0 JS Johnson     
1996/97    Cavalier FC 
1997/98    Cavalier FC 
1998/99    Cavalier FC 
1999/00    Abacom United FC (Marsh Town)  
2000/01    Cavalier FC                2-1 Abacom United 
2001/02      final not played [NPFL: Bears FC] 
2002/03    Bears FC                   2-1 Abacom United     [asdet]
2003/04      final not played [NPFL: Bears FC] 
2005         final not played [NPFL: Caledonia Celtic]
2005/06      final not played [NPFL: Caledonia Celtic]
2007         final not played [NPFL: Bears FC] 
2008         final not played

NPFL = New Providence Football League champions

[*] played as Pub on the Mall Red Dogs; in other seasons the club was
    called Cambridge, Campari, Paint Fair Corona and Stella Athletic 
    until settling (?) for Freeport Rugby FC; they are the only club from
    Grand Bahama to have ever won the national title; in addition they
    won 5 Grand Bahama league titles and 3 Grand Bahama cups (in 1995/96
    they won the corresponding treble).


NB: Britam United now apparently known as United FC; they were
      earlier known as Nick's Body Shop.
    Bears FC apparently won the New Providence in 8 out of 10
      seasons starting from 1976 (when their original name of
      Tropigas, under which they were founded in the mid-1960s,
      was changed to Beck's Bears).

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