Green Buffaloes F.C. Explained

Clubname:Green Buffaloes
Fullname:Green Buffaloes Football Club
Founded: (as Zambian Army F.C.)
Ground:Independence Stadium, Lusaka
Capacity:10,000
Chairman:Lt.Col Jack Mbewe
Manager:Masauso Tembo
League:Zambia Super League
Season:2023–24
Current:2023–24 Zambia Super League
Position:11th
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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

CompetitionYear(s) Won
League Cups1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
Shell and BP Challenge Cup1975, 1977, 1979, 1981
Charity Shield1974, 1978, 1980
Champion of Champions Cup1975, 1979, 1982
Heroes and Unity Cup1978, 1986
BP Challenge Cup1985
Mosi Cup2005
Barclays/ABSA Cup2015

Performances in CAF competitions

2006 – preliminary round

2010 – first round

2017 – preliminary round

2018 – preliminary round

References