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SKNFA Premier League

football league

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ2288509 ↗
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The SKNFA Premier League, known for sponsorship reasons as the SKNFA National Bank Premier League (previously SKNFA Digicel Super League), is the Saint Kitts top division, created in 1932 and organized by the St. Kitts and Nevis Football Association.

It currently has 10 participating clubs and the season lasts from September to May. At the Regular Stage, each club plays the others twice (home and away) and the top four teams qualify to Super Four stage. The qualified teams play each other once and the top two teams from Super Four play a 3-legged Championship Play-off to determine the season champion. The lowest placed team in Regular Stage is relegated to Saint Kitts and Nevis Division 1, from which another one is promoted.

Despite being a league competition in CONCACAF none of the Saint Kitts and Nevis teams played in the recent years in the CFU Club Championship nor CONCACAF Champions' Cup/CONCACAF Champions League. Their last appearance was in CONCACAF Champions' Cup 1994 represented by Newtown United.

Clubs

Source:

Bath United (Bath)

Cayon Rockets (Cayon)

Conaree (Basseterre)

Dieppe Bay Eagles (Dieppe Bay Town)

Garden Hotspurs (Basseterre)

Newtown United (Basseterre)

Saddlers United (Basseterre)

St. Paul's United (St.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with SKNFA, Premier and League providing the first useful test.
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