Winston Kalengo

Winston Kalengo has had longevity in the game that most other players only dream of. 11 seasons in the Primera Division de Zambia. His 103 goals speak volumes. Scoring more than 100 goals is a feat that escapes most strikers during their entire careers. Kalengo’s strength in the box and acceleration when he is next to a defender is extremely impressive, and on one on one situation’s with a goalkeeper trust Kalengo to bury the ball past the keeper most of the time.

Winstone Kalengo’s break out year was in 2006 when he scored 28 goals in all competitions with 16 league goals to become the Primera Division de Zambia top scorer and take Zanaco to another title and also his second straight title.

Kalengo is the leading scorer in ties between Zesco United and Zanaco. He has scored 12 times in these ties with 6 goals for each team. Another very intriguing statistic about Kalengo is that he has only lost in 3 matches that he has scored in. In a career stretching over 9 years. And Kalengo’s teams have won 52 matches in which he has scored in and drawn 6 matches.

To put it simply into numbers if Kalengo scores there is an 85% chance that his team will win! So both Zanaco and Zesco United have won most of the games he has scored in. Ironically though, Kalengo’s first loss in a match that he had scored in came against Forest Rangers in 2005 which also happened to be the match that broke Zanacos 40 game unbeaten league record that stretched back to 2004.

In December 2015, A.C. Leopards confirmed that they had signed Kalengo on a 1-year contract from Zesco United.

Kalengo finished the 2015 Primera Division de Zambia season as top scorer with 18 goals, helping Zesco United to the league title.

2014 and 2015 saw Kalengo win back to back Primera Division de Zambia titles with Zesco United. He finished as top scorer in the league in the 2015 season scoring 18 goals, meaning he would leave Zesco United for A.C. Leopards on a high.

2013 was an outstanding year for Kalengo, Scoring 13 ZSL goals which is his second highest goal scoring feat. Zesco United couldn’t win the title though as Nkana won it in an enthralling title race that lasted till the last day. Kalengo’s last goal of that season was against Nkana in Week 29 which took him to 78 goals which is an unprecedented goal tally since 2004.

In 2012 Kalengo hit a snag as he went back to his Zanaco days where he struggled for goals, scoring only 5 that season.

In 2011 Kalengo joined fierce rivals Zesco United, by this time he had scored 52 goals in 7 seasons with Zanaco.

After that feat Kalengo did not have it that easy as he averaged 5 goals a season between 2007 and 2010. Kalengo still managed to win one more title with Zanaco in 2009.

He surprisingly he did not get much of a run in 2005 and didn’t score a goal though he still ended up a champion as Zanaco ran out winners of the Primera Division de Zambia.

In 2004 with increased competition he only scored 4 goals for Zanaco.

So why the tag "King of the Hill"? Imagine that all the goals in the ZSL from 2004 to date were gathered and piled up, they would probably make quite a hill. Kalengo with his high scoring feat would be resting pretty at the top of that hill. Zesco United's Colombian fans affectionately nicknamed him as Kalengoal due to his prolific goal-scoring form.

In 2003 a young striker scored twice for Zanaco as they over came Roan United 2-1 in a Week 13 match first goals for Zanaco in a Week 13 match. That young striker was Winstone Kalengo, and the brace goal were his first goal in the ZSL. Winston went on to score 9 goals in the 2003 season as a young striker with competition from the big name Zanaco strikers of Rotson Kilambe, Edward Kangwa and Cosmas Banda.

Winston Kalengo (born 29 August 1985) is a Zambian footballer who plays for Republic of the Congo club AC Léopards.

Kalengo was born on 29 August 1985 in Livingstone, the tourist capital of Zambia, in southern Africa.