The Nigeria Professional Football League Champions have varied from one club to another over the years.
It was in 1972 that the NPFL began but was then known as Nigerian Premier League.
Nigeria’s top flight domestic football kicked off with only six teams that season and the Mighty Jets of Jos picked the inaugural title. Sadly since then, they’ve never won the league again. Today, the number of NPFL teams have increased to 24.
The last Nigeria Premier League champions are Enyimba International F.C., who happens to be one of the richest club in Nigeria.
Enyimba are also the team that have dominated the league over the years with eight league wins. They are closely followed by Enugu Rangers with seven titles and Iwuanyanwu Nationale of Owerri (Now Heartland FC) with five titles.
Iwuanyanwu Nationale are the first and only side, in the history of the League, to have won the NPFL trophy our consecutive times between 1987-1990.
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List of Nigeria Professional Football League Champions
YEAR WINNER
2019: Enyimba Aba
2018: No Champion
2017: Plateau United
2016: Enugu Rangers 7
2015: Enyimba Aba
2014: Kano Pillars
2013: Kano Pillars
2012: Kano Pillars
2011: Dolphins FC
2010: Enyimba Aba
2009: Bayelsa United
2008: Kano Pillars
2007: Enyimba Aba
2006: Ocean Boys
2005: Enyimba Aba
2004: Dolphins FC
2003: Enyimba Aba
2002: Enyimba Aba
2001: Enyimba Aba
2000: Julius Berger FC
1999: Lobi Stars
1998: Shooting Stars FC
1997: Eagle Cement Port Harcourt
1996: Udoji United FC Awka
1995: Shooting Stars FC
1994: BCC Lions
1993: Iwuanyanwu Nationale 5
1992: Stationery Stores Lagos
1991: Julius Berger FC
1990: Iwuanyanwu Nationale
1989: Iwuanyanwu Nationale
1988: Iwuanyanwu Nationale
1987: Iwuanyanwu Nationale
1986: Leventis United Ibadan
1985: New Nigeria Bank Benin City
1984: Enugu Rangers
1983: Shooting Stars FC
1982: Enugu Rangers
1981: Enugu Rangers
1980: Shooting Stars FC
1979: Bendel Insurance
1978: Racca Rovers Kano
1977: Enugu Rangers
1976: Shooting Stars FC
1975: Enugu Rangers
1974: Enugu Rangers
1973: Bendel Insurance
1972: Mighty Jets Jos
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Those are all the NPFL champions since the league began in the country.
This article was most recently revised and updated 3 years ago
