The association football champions of Zimbabwe are the winners of the highest league in Zimbabwean football, which is presently the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (ZPSL). The ZPSL was founded in 1980, after Zimbabwe's internationally-recognised independence, as a successor to the Rhodesia National Football League, which started in 1962. Originally governed by the Zimbabwe Football Association – the renamed Rhodesia Football Association, created in 1965 – the ZPSL has run itself since 1993.
The first edition of the Rhodesia National Football League took place in 1962, when Bulawayo Rovers won both the inaugural league championship and Cup of Rhodesia to claim the Double in the first season of nationally organised competition in Rhodesia. Since then, the championship has been largely dominated by teams from the country's capital, Harare (Salisbury until 1982), and second-largest city, Bulawayo: all but two of the 48 championships contested in the country have been won by a team based in one of these two cities. The incumbent champions of the Premier Soccer League are Gunners, from Harare, who won their first title during the 2009 season.
The most successful team in terms of titles won is the Harare club Dynamos, who have won 19 titles. This is more than twice as many as the number won by the second-most decorated, Bulawayo's Highlanders, who have won seven. Dynamos and Highlanders share the record for most consecutive championships won, having both won four titles in succession. Harare-based CAPS United are the most successful team in cup competition, with nine cup-final victories to their name, one more than Dynamos. Unlike the league, the cup has been won numerous times by clubs from outside the traditional centres of Harare and Bulawayo; provincial sides such as Hwange, Mhangura and Masvingo United have claimed the cup on multiple occasions. The Double has been achieved 10 times in Zimbabwean football; since Bulawayo Rovers won both the league and cup in 1962, the Double has been repeated by Dynamos (five times), Zimbabwe Saints, Black Rhinos, Highlanders and CAPS United.
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| Club won the Double (both league and cup) during that season | |
| (number of titles) | A running tally of the total number of championships won by each club is kept in brackets. |
| (number of cups) | A running tally of the total number of cups won by each club is kept in brackets. |
| Season | League champions (number of titles) |
League runners-up | Cup winners (number of cups) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Bulawayo Rovers (1) | Salisbury City | Bulawayo Rovers (1) |
| 1963 | Dynamos (1) | Salisbury Callies | Salisbury Callies (1) |
| 1964 | Bulawayo Rovers (2) | No cup held | |
| 1965 | Dynamos (2) | Salisbury City Wanderers (1) | |
| 1966 | St Paul's (3)[A] | Bulawayo Rovers | Mangula (1) |
| 1967 | State House Tornados (1)[B] | Salisbury Callies (2) | |
| 1968 | Bulawayo Sables (1) | Arcadia United (1) | |
| 1969 | Bulawayo Sables (2) | Arcadia United (2) | |
| 1970 | Dynamos (4) | Wankie (1) | |
| 1971 | Arcadia United (1) | Chibuku Shumba (1) | |
| 1972 | Salisbury Sables (1) | Mangula (2) | |
| 1973 | Metal Box (1) | Highlanders | Wankie (2) |
| 1974 | Salisbury Sables (2) | Chibuku Shumba (2) | |
| 1975 | Chibuku Shumba (2) | Salisbury Callies (3) | |
| 1976 | Dynamos (5) | Dynamos (1) | |
| 1977 | Zimbabwe Saints (1) | Zimbabwe Saints (1) | |
| 1978 | Dynamos (6) | Risco Steel (1) | |
| 1979 | CAPS United (1) | Zimbabwe Saints | Zimbabwe Saints (2) |
| Season | League champions (number of titles) |
League runners-up | Cup winners (number of cups) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Dynamos (7) | Black Aces[C] | CAPS United (1) |
| 1981 | Dynamos (8) | Rio Tinto | CAPS United (2) |
| 1982 | Dynamos (9) | CAPS United (3) | |
| 1983 | Dynamos (10) | Rio Tinto | CAPS United (4) |
| 1984 | Black Rhinos (1) | Arcadia United | Black Rhinos (1) |
| 1985 | Dynamos (11) | Highlanders | Dynamos (2) |
| 1986 | Dynamos (12) | CAPS United | Dynamos (3) |
| 1987 | Black Rhinos (2) | Dynamos | Zimbabwe Saints (3) |
| 1988 | Zimbabwe Saints (2) | Dynamos | Dynamos (4) |
| 1989 | Dynamos (13) | Zimbabwe Saints | Dynamos (5) |
| 1990 | Highlanders (1) | CAPS United | Highlanders (1) |
| 1991 | Dynamos (14) | Black Rhinos | Wankie (3) |
| 1992 | Black Aces (1) | CAPS United | CAPS United (5) |
| 1993 | Highlanders (2) | CAPS United | Tanganda (1) |
| 1994 | Dynamos (15) | Highlanders | Blackpool (1) |
| 1995 | Dynamos (16) | Blackpool | Chapungu United (1)[D] |
| 1996 | CAPS United (2) | Dynamos | Dynamos (6) |
| 1997 | Dynamos (17) | CAPS United | CAPS United (6) |
| 1998–99 | Highlanders (3) | Dynamos | CAPS United (7) |
| 2000 | Highlanders (4) | AmaZulu | No cup held |
| 2001 | Highlanders (5) | AmaZulu | Highlanders (2) |
| 2002 | Highlanders (6) | Black Rhinos | Masvingo United (1) |
| 2003 | AmaZulu (1) | Highlanders | Dynamos (7) |
| 2004 | CAPS United (3) | Highlanders | CAPS United (8) |
| 2005 | CAPS United (4) | Masvingo United | Masvingo United (2) |
| 2006 | Highlanders (7) | Motor Action[E] | Mwana Africa (1) |
| 2007 | Dynamos (18) | Highlanders | Dynamos (8) |
| 2008 | Monomotapa United (1) | Dynamos | CAPS United (9) |
| 2009 | Gunners (1) | Dynamos | No cup held |
| 2010 | Motor Action (1) | Dynamos | No cup held |
| 2011 | Dynamos (19) | FC Platinum | Dynamos (9)[F] |
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