Malian Première Division

Malian Première Division (French: Première division malienne) is the top division of football in Mali. Having been created in 1966, it is governed by the Malian Football Federation. The league has been professional since 2004. The official name is Ligue 1 Orange Mali for sponsorship reasons.

The season usually runs from December to late August. The league currently consists of twenty clubs split into two pools and features a round-robin home-and-away schedule within each pool. The top two in each pool qualify for the Championship Play-Off (Carré d'As), which involves a round-robin between the four teams. The winners of the play-off are crowned champions and qualify for the CAF Champions League.

In the 2017 season, the competition started in early January, but in the 6th round, the government dissolved the football association on 9 March and the remaining matches of the round were abandoned. The league did not take place in 2018 but resumed for the 2019-20 season.

Teams (2021–22)

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Afrique Élite	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
AS Bakaridjan	Ségou	Stade Amari Daou	30,000
AS Black Stars	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
AS Douanes	Sikasso	Stade Babemba Traoré de Sikasso	30,000
AS Korofina	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
AS Olympique de Messira	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
AS Police	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
AS Real Bamako	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
CO Bamako	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
CS Duguwolofila	Koulikoro	Stade Mamadou Diarra H. de Koulikoro	8,000
Djoliba AC	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
LC Bamako	Bamako	Stade Modibo Kéïta	35,000
Stade Malien	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
AS Onze Créateurs de Niaréla	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
US Bougouba	Bougouba	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
USC Kita	Kita	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000
USFAS Bamako	Bamako	Stade Municipal de USFAS	5,000
Yeelen Olympique	Bamako	Stade du 26 Mars	50,000

Previous winners

Years	Champions
1966	Djoliba (1)
1967	Djoliba (2)
1968	Djoliba (3)
1969	Real Bamako (1)
1970	Stade Malien (1)
1971	Djoliba (4)
1972	Stade Malien (2)
1973	Djoliba (5)
1974	Djoliba (6)
1975	Djoliba (7)
1976	Djoliba (8)
1977–1978	Not held
1979	Djoliba (9)
1980	Real Bamako (2)
1980–81	Real Bamako (3)
1981–82	Djoliba (10)
1982–83	Real Bamako (4)
1983–84	Stade Malien (3)
1984–85	Djoliba (11)
1985–86	Real Bamako (5)
1986–87	Stade Malien (4)
1987–88	Djoliba (12)
1988–89	Stade Malien (5)
1989–90	Djoliba (13)
1990–91	Real Bamako (6)
1991–92	Djoliba (14)
1992–93	Stade Malien (6)
1993–94	Stade Malien (7)
1994–95	Stade Malien (8)
1995–96	Djoliba (15)
1996–97	Djoliba (16)
1997–98	Djoliba (17)
1998–99	Djoliba(18)
1999–2000	Stade Malien (9)
2000–01	Stade Malien (10)
2001–02	Stade Malien (11)
2002–03	Stade Malien (12)
2003–04	Djoliba (19)
2004–05	Stade Malien (13)
2005–06	Stade Malien (14)
2006–07	Stade Malien (15)
2007–08	Djoliba (20)
2008–09	Djoliba (21)
2009–10	Stade Malien (16)
2010–11	Stade Malien (17)
2011–12	Djoliba (22)
2012–13	Stade Malien (18)
2013–14	Stade Malien (19)
2014–15	Stade Malien (20)
2016	Stade Malien (21)
2017	Abandoned
2017–18	Not held
2018–19	Not held
2019–20	Stade Malien (22)
2020–21	Stade Malien (23)
2021–22	Djoliba (23)
2022–23	Real Bamako (7)
2023–24	Djoliba (24)
2024–25	Stade Malien (24)

Qualification for CAF competitions

Association ranking for the 2025–26 CAF club season

The association ranking for the 2025–26 CAF Champions League and the 2025–26 CAF Confederation Cup will be based on results from each CAF club competition from 2020–21 to the 2024–25 season.

Legend

CL: CAF Champions League
CC: CAF Confederation Cup
≥: Associations points might increase on basis of its clubs performance in 2024–25 CAF club competitions
Associations ranked 1–12 are eligible to enter two teams in each CAF club competition.

Rank	Association	2020–21 (× 1)	2021–22 (× 2)	2022–23 (× 3)	2023–24 (× 4)	2024–25 (× 5)	Total
2025	2024	Mvt	CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC	CL	CC
1	1	—	Egypt	8	3	7	4	8	2.5	7	7	10	4	190.5
2	2	—	Morocco	4	6	9	5	8	2	2	4	5	5	142
3	4	+1	South Africa	8	2	5	4	4	3	4	1.5	9	3	131
4	3	-1	Algeria	6	5	7	1	6	5	2	3	5	5	130
5	6	+1	Tanzania	3	0.5	0	2	3	4	6	0	2	4	82.5
6	5	-1	Tunisia	4	3	5	1	4	2	6	1	3	0.5	82.5
7	8	+1	Angola	1	0	5	0	2	0	3	1.5	2	2	55
8	7	-1	DR Congo	4	0	0	3	1	2	4	0	2	0	45
9	9	—	Sudan	3	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	3	0	41
10	11	+1	Ivory Coast	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	0	1	2	38
11	10	-1	Libya	0	0.5	0	5	0	0.5	0	3	0	0	24
12	12	—	Nigeria	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	21
13	15	+2	Mali	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0.5	18.5
14	14	—	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	16
15	13	-2	Guinea	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0.5	0	0	12
16	19	+3	Botswana	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.5	8.5
17	21	+4	Senegal	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
18	17	-1	Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	8
19	18	-1	Congo	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.5	0	0	7
20	16	-4	Cameroon	0	3	0	0.5	1	0	0	0	0	0	7
21	22	+1	Togo	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
22	22	—	Uganda	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
23	-	new	Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	2.5
24	20	-4	Zambia	0	1.5	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.5
25	24	-1	Eswatini	0	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
25	24	-1	Niger	0	0	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
27	26	-1	Burkina Faso	0	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5

Performance by club

Club	Titles	Years
Djoliba AC	24	1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2022, 2023–24
Stade Malien	24	1970, 1972, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2025
AS Real Bamako	7	1969, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1991, 2023

Top goalscorers

Season	Player	Club	Goals
1998-99	Mali Soumaila Toure	USFAS Bamako	12
2000-01	Mali Mamadou Kanté	Stade Malien	23
2002	Mali Soungalo Diakite	Stade Malien	25
2002-03	Mali Ousmane Coulibaly	Nianan	13
2004	Mali Mintou Doucouré	Centre Salif Keita	14
2005	Ivory Coast Jacques Koffi N'Guessan	Real Bamako	18
2007	Mali Bakary Coulibaly	Stade Malien	16
2008-09	Mali Ousmane Ben Goïta	USFAS Bamako	13
Mali Mamadou Coulibaly	Stade Malien
2021-22	Mali Moussa Koné	Bougouba	20
2023-24	Mali Lamine Diakite	Onze Createurs	15