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. It was created in 1983 and is headed by the
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. 10 teams participate in this league. The 10th-placed team is relegated to the Grenada First Division, while the 9th-placed team plays a play-off with the 2nd-placed team of the second level. Despite being a league competition in
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. Some of the matches are played at the 9,000 capacity
Grenada National Stadium Grenada National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in St. George's, Grenada. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,000 people. It was renamed to Kirani James Athletic Stadium in April 2017, in honour of the fir ...
. League games usually take place in front of dozens of spectators. In 2014, the match between PetroCaribe Queens Park Rangers and Nixon's Electrical Happy Hill FC was the first live broadcast of a Premier Division match.


Current teams

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Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
* St. John's * Chantimelle


2021–22 stadiums


Previous winners

*1983: ''unknown'' *1984:
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*1985: ''unknown'' *1986:
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*1987–93: ''unknown'' *1994:
Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
*1995:
Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...
*1996:
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*1997: Seven Seas Rock City *1998: Fontenoy United *1999: SAFL *2000: GBSS *2001: GBSS *2002:
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*2003: Carib Hurricane *2004: ''abandoned'' *2005:
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*2006: Carib Hurricane *2007:
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*2008: Carib Hurricane *2009: ''abandoned'' *2010:
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*2011:
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*2012:
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*2013:
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: Carib Hurricane *
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
: ''not finished'' * 2017–18: Carib Hurricane * 2018–19:
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* 2019–20:
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: ''not held due to
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'' * 2021–22:
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Top goalscorers


Multiple hat-tricks


References


External links


Official Site
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