The South Yemeni Football League or the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Football League was an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

league held for domestic

football clubs A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football. Such teams could be selected to play in a match against an opposing team, to represent a football club, group, state or nation, an all-s ...

South Yemen South Yemen ( ar, اليمن الجنوبي, al-Yaman al-Janubiyy), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (, ), also referred to as Democratic Yemen (, ) or Yemen (Aden) (, ), was a communist state that existed from 1967 to 19 ...

held between 1970 and 1990. The league was folded when South and

North Yemen North Yemen may refer to: * Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962) * Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a ...

unified as one country (

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

) on 22 May 1990. This resulted in the creation of the

Yemeni League Yemeni League is the top football division of the Yemen Football Association. It was created in 1990 after the unification of North and South Yemen. It was set up in a four-level system with Premier, First, Second and Third Division. 16 northern ...

. Al-Tilal have a record six South Yemen league titles, making them the most successful out of this competition. The domestic cup was the South Yemen Cup.

Title winners

* 1970/71 -

Al-Tilal Al-Tilal Sports Club ( ar, نادي التلال) is a Yemeni multi-sports club based in Aden, Yemen. The club was founded in 1905. Achievements * Yemeni League: 2 ** 1991, 2005 * Yemeni Presidents Cup: 2 ** 2007, 2010 * Yemeni Naseem Cup: ...

* 1975/76 - Al-Wahda * 1976/77 - Al-Tilal * 1979/80 - Al-Tilal * 1981/82 - Al-Tilal * 1982/83 - Al-Tilal * 1983/84 -

Al-Shorta Al-Shorta Sports Club ( ar, نادي الشرطة الرياضي, lit=''Police Sports Club'') is an Iraqi sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. It has teams in 17 different sports, more than any other Iraqi club, and the best known sectio ...

* 1986/87 - Al-Tilal * 1987/88 - Al-Wahda * 1988/89 - Al-Wahda * 1989/90 -

Al-Shula Al-Shula ( ar, الشعلة) is a football club playing in Aden, Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsul ...

References

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