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Name
Botswana Premier League

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Poster

Established
1966 (58 years old)

First Recorded Event
2021-10-30

Current Season
2024-2025

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Soccer

Location
Botswana

Gender
Male

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04 Dec	Nico United	-	Morupule Wan	2:00pm
04 Dec	Jwaneng Gala	-	Security Sys	2:00pm
04 Dec	Township Rol	-	Extension Gu	5:00pm
07 Dec	Morupule Wan	-	Extension Gu	2:00pm
07 Dec	BDF XI	-	Sua Flamingo	2:00pm
07 Dec	Orapa United	-	Nico United	2:00pm
11 Dec	Township Rol	-	Morupule Wan	5:00pm
11 Dec	Extension Gu	-	Orapa United	2:00pm
11 Dec	Nico United	-	Security Sys	2:00pm
14 Dec	Orapa United	-	Morupule Wan	2:00pm
Results
30 Nov	Sua Flamingo	0 - 0	Township Rol
30 Nov	Extension Gu	0 - 1	Nico United
29 Nov	Security Sys	1 - 0	Gaborone Uni
23 Nov	Jwaneng Gala	3 - 0	Morupule Wan
23 Nov	Township Rol	2 - 1	Nico United
22 Nov	Gaborone Uni	2 - 1	Orapa United
03 Nov	Gaborone Uni	3 - 1	Extension Gu
02 Nov	Jwaneng Gala	0 - 0	Nico United
02 Nov	Orapa United	1 - 1	BDF XI
26 Oct	Sua Flamingo	3 - 0	Security Sys

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The Botswana Premier League, currently known as the BTC Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level football league in Botswana. Organised by the Botswana Football Association, the league was formed in 1978 to replace the pre-independence Bechuanaland Union African Soccer League, which was regional. Participants in the first edition of the league included Tlokweng Pirates, Notwane, Black Peril, Queens Park Rangers and a team from Ngwaketse district.

The league has always been dominated by the teams that are based south of Dibete or at the southern part of the country until the 2006–07 season when Ecco City Greens made history by becoming the first team from the north to lift the lucrative competition. The league is sponsored by a mobile phone operator Be Mobile to the tune of 30 million pula. After the ABSA premiership in South Africa, the Be Mobile league is the second highest sponsored league in the COSAFA region. The league has continued to grow in leaps and bounds as shown by the increasing number of foreign players in the BPL. Some top players from mainly Zimbabwe like Arnold Chaka, Master Masitara, Elvis Meleka, Mandla Sibanda, Sageby Sandaka and Tendai Ndoro have ditched the Zimbabwean PSL for the BPL in recent years. Recently Namibian stars like Jerome Luis and Benson Shilongo arrived in Botswana in search of the Pula. After terminating their television deal with a South African company RP Productions, the league is now negotiating a long term deal with Supersport International. In early 2013, the pay TV shown five BPL games on a testing basis.

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