Professional Rhodesia and Nyasaland Football League 1961
Inaugural Matches [Apr 9; involving South African clubs]
Salisbury XI bt Nyasa United [Glamis Ground, Salisbury]
City of Salisbury 2-8 Durban City [Glamis Ground, Salisbury]
Bulawayo XI 0-1 Highland Park [Showgrounds, Bulawayo]
NB: Salisbury XI were a combined side of Salisbury United and City of Salisbury;
Bulawayo XI were a combined side of Bulawayo City and Bulawayo United;
there also was an opening match at Scrivener Stadium, Kitwe
Round 1 [Apr 16?]
City of Lusaka 2-5 Salisbury United [Queensmead Ground, Lusaka]
Round 2 [Apr 23?]
Nyasa United (Blantyre) 0-1 City of Lusaka [Langeley Stadium, Blantyre]
NB: Nyasa United withdrew on Apr 29, 1961
Championship abandoned.
NB: Rhodesia and Nyasaland comprised the territories of current
Malawi (Nyasaland), Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and Zimbabwe
(Southern Rhodesia).
Castle Cup 1961
Semifinals
Bulawayo City bt [?]
City of Lusaka 2-1 Salisbury City
Final [at Raylton Ground, Salisbury]
City of Lusaka bt Bulawayo City
Levy Cup 1961
First Leg [in Bulawayo]
Southern Rhodesia 5-0 Northern Rhodesia
[Laing (2), McGuigan (2), Smith]
Second Leg [in Salisbury]
Northern Rhodesia 4-2 Southern Rhodesia
[Lawther (2), Stevenson, Simpson (og); Chalmers, Laing]
NB: apparently independently, another match between regional selection was played
[Scrivener Stadium, Kitwe]
Northern Rhodesia 1-3 Rhodesia and Nyasaland FL XI
[Pengally; Cravetti, Bresani, Thomas]
Other matches 1961:
City of Lusaka 4-0 Bulawayo XI
Rhodesian XI 7-1 Katanga
Rhodesian XI 1-3 French Congo
[in Elizabethville, part of the Elizabethville International Fair]
list of champions (Rhodesia/Zimbabwe).
list of cup winners (Rhodesia).
Sources: [Liw 84, ws]
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