1996–97 Premier Soccer League with the crowd being instigated by the Celtic fans. This was a rather surprising turn of events as the Celtic fans, while having a reputation for being extremely vocal and passionate, are not known to be unruly. 1996–97 Premier Soccer League The 1996–97 Premier Soccer League, known as the 1996–97 Castle Premiership for sponsorship purposes, was the first season of the newly established top-flight professional football league in South Africa. The league was an 18-team competition established in 1996 by Irvin Khoza, Kaizer Motaung, Raymond Hack and Jomo Sono in conjunction with the South African Football Association and it would
1997 Mongolian Premier League which features competing teams of both names. 1997 Mongolian Premier League The 1997 Mongolian National Championship was the thirtieth recorded edition of top flight football in Mongolia and the second season of the Mongolian Premier League, which took over as the highest level of competition in the country from the previous Mongolian National Championship. Delger, (, Wide) from Delger in the sum (district) of Govi-Altai Province in western Mongolia were champions, with Erchim (the team representing Ulaanbaatar power plant) finishing as runners up, and ITR Bank in third place. The competition was played in two stages: firstly a double round