C-League is a men’s football league in Cambodia, with recorded seasons spanning 2016 to 2025. This page brings together live scores, fixtures, results, standings, and player and team statistics, helping visitors track the competition across its available seasons. Review match information and league tables in one place as you explore its recorded season coverage.
Upcoming matches, C-League
Regular Season - 3
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- Regular Season - 3National Defense
NagaWorld
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- Regular Season - 3Boeung Ket
Visakha
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- Regular Season - 3Kirivong Sok Sen Chey
Angkor Tiger
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- Regular Season - 3
Kompong Dewa
Life Sihanoukville
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- Regular Season - 3
Dangkor Senchey
Svay Rieng
Regular Season - 4
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- Regular Season - 4Svay Rieng
Boeung Ket
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- Regular Season - 4
Visakha
Kirivong Sok Sen CheyPrince Stadium
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- Regular Season - 4
Angkor Tiger
National Defense
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- Regular Season - 4
Life Sihanoukville
Phnom Penh Crown
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- Regular Season - 4
NagaWorld
Kompong Dewa
Latest played matches, C-League
Regular Season - 2
Regular Season - 1
C-League Standings
Premier League
| Rank | Club | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Visakha | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 6 | WW |
| 2 | Svay Rieng | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 6 | WW | |
| 3 |
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Dangkor Senchey | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | WD |
| 4 |
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NagaWorld | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | WD |
| 5 |
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Phnom Penh Crown | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | DD |
| 6 |
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Angkor Tiger | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | DD |
| 7 | Boeung Ket | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | D | |
| 8 |
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Kompong Dewa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 | LD |
| 9 |
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Life Sihanoukville | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | L |
| 10 | National Defense | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | -9 | 0 | LL | |
| 11 | Kirivong Sok Sen Chey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | -9 | 0 | LL |
C-League Statistics
Top scorers 2026
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Top assists 2026
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Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
C-League teams participation since 2016
History
| Team | Nb participations |
|---|---|
| Boeung Ket | 10 |
| National Defense | 10 |
| Phnom Penh Crown | 10 |
| Svay Rieng | 10 |
| NagaWorld | 10 |
| Kirivong Sok Sen Chey | 8 |
| Visakha | 8 |
| Angkor Tiger | 7 |
| National Police | 7 |
| Asia Euro United | 6 |
| Electricite du Cambodge | 5 |
| Soltilo Angkor | 4 |
| Cambodia Tiger | 3 |
| Western Phnom Penh | 3 |
| Dangkor Senchey | 3 |
| National Sports Academy | 2 |
| United CMAC | 2 |
| Prey Veng | 2 |
| Life Sihanoukville | 2 |
| Kompong Cham | 1 |
| Kompong Dewa | 1 |
C-League top scorer teams
C-League About
C-League is Cambodia’s top-flight men’s football league, now officially known as the Cambodian Premier League (CPL) and historically associated with the name Metfone C-League. It is the highest level of the Cambodian football pyramid, bringing together professional clubs competing for the national championship and access to the wider Asian club-competition system.
Role in Cambodian football
The Cambodian Premier League exists to identify the country’s champion, provide a consistent professional platform for elite players and strengthen the domestic pathway from youth and grassroots football to senior international competition. Its clubs are also central to the development of Cambodian football beyond the national team, giving homegrown players regular high-level matches while creating opportunities for clubs to test themselves against teams from across Asia.
The competition is part of a promotion-and-relegation pyramid. Clubs seeking entry must satisfy sporting and professional requirements, including the relevant club-licensing standards for infrastructure, legal administration, finances and youth development. Sporting merit remains an important route into the division: the leading club from Cambodian League 2 can earn promotion, while teams at the bottom of the Premier League face the possibility of relegation. Exact access arrangements can vary by season and by the regulations in force, but the league’s place at the summit of the national structure is consistent.
History and professional development
The league’s history is traced to 1980, with its early modern development taking place around the beginning of the 1980s. Over time, it evolved from a competition with a more limited professional base into Cambodia’s principal professional league. The Metfone C-League name reflected an earlier commercial era, while the Cambodian Premier League identity represents the competition’s modern national and professional positioning.
A significant institutional change came in 2022, when a dedicated league company was established to manage commercial rights and competition operations more independently. That development formed part of a broader effort to improve standards, strengthen club administration and align the domestic game more closely with Asian Football Confederation expectations. The league remains connected to Cambodia’s football-governance structure while operating as a specialised professional competition.
Competition format
The CPL uses a multi-stage league structure rather than a single short tournament. In the recent format described for the competition, clubs first play a regular-season phase in a triple round-robin schedule, meaning that each team meets the others three times. The arrangement is designed to provide a substantial body of matches while allowing the league to use the standings from the opening rounds when determining the seeding or order for the final round.
The leading clubs then progress to a Championship or Play-off stage. The top four have been identified for this decisive phase in the recent structure, where the season’s strongest teams compete for the title. Regular-season performance therefore has two functions: it accumulates points over the league campaign and establishes the position from which a club enters the championship phase. The precise number of teams, match sequence and home advantage can depend on the regulations for the relevant edition, so historical seasons should not automatically be treated as identical to the current arrangement.
Points, ranking and match rules
League matches use the standard football points system: three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat. When teams finish level on points, the ranking hierarchy generally gives priority to head-to-head results, followed by goal difference and goals scored. These criteria are especially important when deciding which clubs reach the Championship stage or determining promotion and relegation positions.
Where a Championship-stage or play-off match is level after normal time, the contest can proceed to two 15-minute periods of extra time. If the scores remain equal, the tie is decided by a penalty shootout. This creates a clear distinction between the league phase, where drawn matches share points, and the decisive knockout or final-stage fixtures, where a winner must be established.
Players, licensing and sporting stakes
The league combines Cambodian professionals with a controlled number of overseas players. Recent regulations have used foreign-player quotas such as the “5+1” model, allowing five players of any nationality alongside one player from an AFC member association, while domestic-player and under-22 requirements may also be applied. These measures are intended to balance competitive quality with the development of Cambodian footballers. Because squad and starting-lineup rules can change between regulatory cycles, the applicable season regulations determine the precise limits.
Winning the Cambodian Premier League brings the national title and the CPL trophy, but the consequences extend beyond domestic prestige. The champion normally gains a route into AFC club competition, including the AFC Challenge League or its qualifying pathway, subject to the relevant continental regulations and club licensing. For clubs at the other end of the table, relegation to Cambodian League 2 can affect sporting status, revenue and the ability to retain professional resources.
Season calendar and recorded coverage
The modern league calendar generally follows an August-to-May cycle, broadly aligning domestic scheduling with the AFC season and international football windows. This format places the regular-season campaign before the high-pressure Championship or Play-off phase and gives successful clubs a structured route towards continental competition. Earlier editions may have used different dates or formats, so calendar comparisons should be made season by season.
Xtra-Stats records ten C-League seasons from 2016 through 2025, including the competition’s first recorded event on 15 February 2020. These records provide a statistical view across a period in which the league adopted its current Cambodian Premier League identity and continued its transition towards a more professional, commercially organised and internationally connected competition.