Wikipedia - Nakambala Leopards F.C.
Leopards is a Zambian football club based in Mazabuka that plays in the Mazabuka Amateur District League. They play their home games at Nakambala Stadium in Mazabuka.
The club's main sponsor is Zambia Sugar.
The team won promotion to the Zambia Premier League for the 2009 season after coming in second position during the 2008 season, they were relegated in 2009. The club was promoted to the country's top flight league for the 2014 season. However the club pulled out of the Zambian Premier League following the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic as the team's benefactor's Zambia Sugar Company could not allow the team to travel for away games or play home games to help stop the spread of the disease. They were subsequently demoted to the Eden University National League which is the second tier of the Zambian Professional Soccer League but opted to drop to the district developmental league for the very reasons they opted out of the league. Their place was subsequently taken up by Trindent of North Western Province.
Nakambala Leopards sú jedným z najúspešnejších futbalových klubov v Zambii, pričom získali 12 titulov Zambijskej Premier League, najnovší v roku 2014. Klub tiež vyhral 9 Zambijských pohárov a 2 Zambijské Charity Shield.
Nakambala Leopards hrali aj na kontinentálnej úrovni, zúčastnili sa Ligy majstrov CAF a Konfederačného pohára CAF. Ich najväčším úspechom na kontinentálnej úrovni bolo dosiahnuť semifinále Ligy majstrov CAF v roku 1995.
Klub je prezývaný "Leopards" kvôli svojmu agresívnemu hernému štýlu. Ich domáce ihrisko je Nkana Stadium v Kitwe s kapacitou 10 000 miest.