Cameroon’s top tier league is known as the “Elite One”  (also MTN Elite when MTN was title sponsor) championship and would be played amongst 21 teams in the 2020/2021 football season.

Previously known as the First Division, then the League one and today the Elite One championship. the league started in 1961, just after Cameroon gained her Independence from France in 1960

the league was dorminated in its early years by Douala based teams like oryx and Union and later by teams based in Yaoundé like Canon and Tonnerre. But Cotonsport FC playing from its base in Garoua is the most successful team in the league with 15 tittles.

PWD of Bamenda are the current champions and one of only 17 teams to have ever lifted tittle and only the second team west of the Mongo (Anglophone Cameroon) after Tiko United in 2009

Championship winners

• 1960–61: Oryx Douala
• 1961–62: Caïman Douala
• 1962–63: Oryx Douala
• 1963–64: Oryx Douala
• 1964–65: Oryx Douala
• 1965–66: Diamant Yaoundé
• 1966–67: Oryx Douala
• 1967–68: Caïman Douala
• 1968–69: US Douala
• 1969–70: Canon Yaoundé
• 1970–71: Aigle Nkongsamba
• 1971–72: Léopards Douala
• 1972–73: Léopards Douala
• 1973–74: Canon Yaoundé
• 1974–75: Caïman Douala
• 1975–76: US Douala
• 1976–77: Canon Yaoundé
• 1977–78: US Douala
• 1978–79: Canon Yaoundé
• 1979–80: Canon Yaoundé
• 1981: Tonnerre Yaoundé
• 1981–82: Canon Yaoundé
• 1982–83: Tonnerre Yaoundé
• 1983–84: Tonnerre Yaoundé
• 1984–85: Canon Yaoundé
• 1985–86: Canon Yaoundé
• 1986–87: Tonnerre Yaoundé
• 1988: Tonnerre Yaoundé
• 1989: RC Bafoussam
• 1990: US Douala
• 1991: Canon Yaoundé
• 1992: RC Bafoussam
• 1993: RC Bafoussam
• 1994: Aigle Nkongsamba
• 1995: RC Bafoussam
• 1996: Unisport FC(Bafang)
• 1997: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 1998: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 1999: Sable FC(Batié)
• 2000: Fovu Club(Baham)
• 2001: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2002: Canon Yaoundé
• 2003: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2004: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2005: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2006: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2007: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2007–08: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2008–09: Tiko United FC
• 2009–10: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2010–11: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2011–12: US Douala
• 2013: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2014: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2015: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2016: UMS de Loum(Loum)
• 2017: Eding Sport FC(Mfou)
• 2018: Coton Sport FC(Garoua)
• 2019: UMS de Loum(Loum)
• 2019–20: PWD Bamenda(Bamenda) 
• 2020-21 Coton Sport (Garoua)
• 2022 -Coton Sport (Garoua)
• 2022-23-Coton Sport (Garoua)