For regional or city selection during colonial time. Played at least once, in a week-long competition with the final on May 1, 1950, at the Stade Leopold II in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), with an attendance of over 40,000. 1950 Katanga 2-1 Léopoldville Two months after this win, Katanga played in a 'sub-Saharan championship'.
1961 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi) 5-1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1962-63 not played
1964 CS Imana (Kinshasa)
1965 AS Bilima (Kinshasa)
1966 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1967 TP Englebert (Lubumbashi)
1968 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1969-70 not played
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 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
1980 Lubumbashi Sport
1981 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1982 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1983 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1984 CS Imana (Kinshasa) 1-2 1-0 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1985 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1986 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1987 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1988 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1989 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
1990 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1991 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1992 US Bilombe
1993 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa)
1994 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-0 AS Bantous
1995 AC Sodigraf (Kinshasa) 4-0 Mbongo Sports
1996 AS Dragons (Kinshasa)
1997 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 2-1 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
1998 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 1-0 AS Sucrière (Kwilu Ngongo)
1999 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) 3-2 AS Paulino (Kinshasa) [aet]
2000 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) 2-0 AS Saint-Luc (Kananga)
2001 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 3-0 AS Veti Club (Matadi)
2002 US Kenya (Lubumbashi) 2-1 SM Sanga Balende
2003 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-0 TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi)
2004 CS Cilu (Lukala) 1-0 AS Saint-Luc (Kananga)
2005 AS Vita Kabasha (Goma) 1-1 CS Cilu (Lukala) [4-2 pen]
2006 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 4-1 AS Dragons (Kinshasa)
2007 Maniema Union (Kindu) 2–1 FC St-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
2008 OC Bukavu Dawa (Bukavu) 2-0 DC Virunga (Goma)
2009 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 0-0 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) [5-4 pen]
2010 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 3-0 AS Ndoki a Ndombe (Boma)
2011 US Tshinkunku (Kananga) 1-1 AS Veti Club (Matadi) [4-3 pen]
2012 CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi) 4-0 AS Veti Club (Matadi)
NB: tournament apparently called Challenge Papa Kalala 1982-1989 and as
such twice won by AS Vita Club (1982 and 1983 apparently) and twice
by DC Motema Pembe (1984 as Imana and 1985);
2007 edition listed as 43rd, implying no winners are missing.
Total number of wins (48):
13 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) [includes CS Imana] [*2]
9 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [*1]
5 AS Dragons (Kinshasa) [includes AS Bilima]
TP Mazembe (Lubumbashi) [includes TP Englebert]
4 AS Kalamu (Kinshasa)
2 FC Saint-Eloi Lupopo (Lubumbashi)
1 US Bilombe (Bilombe)
OC Bukavu Dawa (Bukavu)
CS Cilu (Lukala)
CS Don Bosco (Lubumbashi)
US Kenya (Lubumbashi)
Lubumbashi Sport
Maniema Union (Kindu)
AC Sodigraf (Kinshasa)
US Tshinkunku (Kananga) [reported to have also won 1985 final against AS Bilima]
AS Vita Kabasha (Goma)
[*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 1996 (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'Indépendance 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.
2001 Utexafrica (Kinshasa) 0-0 Inter (Kinshasa) [aet, 4-1 pen] 2002 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 Inter (Kinshasa) 2003 abandoned NB: tournament not held since
2002 FC Lupopo (Lubumbashi) - US Kenya (Lubumbashi) [Dec 15, 2002; result not known] 2003 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) w/o AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) [Feb 29, 2004; Vita withdrew] 2004 CS Cilu (Lukala) 1-1 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) [6-5 pen] [Jan 23, 2005] 2005 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 2-1 AS Vita Kabasha (Goma) [Feb 12, 2006]
Played between the EPFKIN champions and the newly promoted clubs at the start of a new season. (So the 2001 edition involved the 2000 EPFKIN champions and the 2000 winners of the feeder leagues.) 2001 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) bt AC Bandal (Kinshasa) 2002 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2-0 FC Système (Kinshasa) 2003 Olympic Club Kinshasa bt AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2004 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 1-0 AC Kintainers (Kinshasa) 2005 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 4-0 FC Nzakimuena (Kinshasa) 2006 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa) 2-0 ATT Sport (Kinshasa) 2007 AS Pharmagros (Kinshasa) 1-0 FC Tornado (Kinshasa) 2008 DC Motema Pembe (Kinshasa) 3-0 US Amazone (Kinshasa) 2009 ATT Sport (Kinshasa) 1-1 Stade Kinois (Kinshasa) [4-1 pen] 2010 US Filas (Kinshasa) 3-2 AS Vita Club (Kinshasa)
Sources: [Oli 95], [Ric 99].
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