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2011 Linafoot

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ4621715 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2011 Linafoot season was the 50th season of Top League Linafoot in DR Congo. Defending champions are AS Vita from Kinshasa. Seventeen teams entered the competition. TP Mazembe won the championship.

Changes from 2010

A new format was introduced. In contrast to the previous season, the final round is made up of eight teams in one group. In 2010 eight teams were divided into two groups of four with the top two finishers advancing to yet another group stage. The winner of the group of 8 will be the champion.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round 12 teams in three groups played a double round robin. The group winners advanced to the next round.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Linafoot, football and league can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “2011 Linafoot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.