The Pakistan football champions are the winners of the highest league in Pakistani football, which is currently the

Pakistan Premier League The Pakistan Premier League (PPL; ur, پاکستان پریمیئر لیگ) is a Pakistani professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Pakistan football league system, it is the country's primary football compe ...

. Pakistan’s first football tournament began on May 28, 1948 as the National Football Championship, a knock-out competition, which remained as the top football competition in the country until 2004 with the introduction of the

. In 1979, a domestic cup was added to Pakistani football, known as the

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. The 1948–49 Pakistan National Football League was the first season of the NFL and ended with Sindh Blue being crowned champions. The National Football League era though saw

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based Pakistan Airlines with most championships, winning the competition nine times. The Pakistan Premier League era is different though as most of the champions of the league have come from

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side with

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from Rawalpindi winning the league five times. Currently, the team with the most championships in Pakistan Premier League is

, who have won five championships in the league. However, Pakistan Airlines are the team with the most championships overall, winning National Football League nine times.

Champions

* Bold indicates

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winners – i.e. League and Domestic (National Challenge) Cup. * ''Italic'' indicates team winning the season unbeaten – i.e. (

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National Football League (1948–2003)

Pakistan Premier League (2004-present)

Total titles won

Teams in bold compete in the Premier League as of the 2018–19 season. Note: † represents dissolved teams.

Total titles won by provinces

Punjab has dominated the football league in Pakistan with a total of 31 league titles won between three cities;

Faisalabad Faisalabad (; Punjabi/ ur, , ; ), formerly known as Lyallpur (Punjabi, Urdu: لائل پور), named after the founder of the city, but was renamed in 1977 in honour of late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. It is the 3rd largest city of Pakis ...

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...

and Rawalpindi. Sindh based Karachi and East Bengal based Dacca dominated the league from 1960 to 1965; Dacca winning consecutive titles from 1960-61 and 1961-62, and Karachi winning back to back three titles from 1962-63, 1963-64 and 1964-65.

By City / Town

Multiple trophy wins

Only three clubs have won

in Pakistan football.

References

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