Green Buffaloes F.C.
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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.
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Full name | Green Buffaloes Football Club | ||
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Founded | 1965; 59 years ago (1965) (as Zambian Army F.C.) | ||
Ground | Independence Stadium, Lusaka | ||
Capacity | 10,000 | ||
Chairman | Lt.Col Jack Mbewe | ||
Manager | Masauso Tembo | ||
League | Zambia Super League | ||
2023–24 | 11th | ||
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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.