[1] The Northern Rhodesia Castle Cup, rebranded two years later as the Independence Cup due to the independence of Zambia, was launched in 1962 by the Football Association of Zambia as the top knockout tournament in Zambian football.
It was named under various sponsorships; Cadbury Schweppes (1974-1975), the Zambian State Lottery (1976–78) and the Zambia Railways (1979).
[1] The Northern Rhodesian Challenge Cup is a currently-defunct knockout tournament in Zambian football created in 1962 and originally played by teams featuring all-white teams.
Following Northern Rhodesia's independence as Zambia and the competition's rebranding as the Zambian Challenge Cup in 1964, it included teams featuring black people in the country.
[1] The competition was contested by the top 8 teams of the country's league system (the equivalence of South Africa's MTN 8).