Premier League (Tanzania)

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The Premier League (currently also: Ligi Kuu Tanzania Bara ) is the top division of the national football association of Tanzania .

history

After the national football association of Tanzania joined FIFA in 1964 , a national football league was founded in 1965, but this was limited to Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania, excluding Zanzibar). From 1981, the four best teams in the Tanzanian Premier League and the four best teams in the Zanzibar Premier League played an all-Tanzanian football champions in a league operation called the Union League . However, this joint state championship has been suspended since 2004. Starting with the 2007 season, the championship will be played out across the year.

The greatest continental successes for teams from the Premier League were reaching the quarter-finals in the African Cup of National Champions in 1969 and 1970 by Young Africans FC , reaching the semi-finals in 1974 in the same competition by Simba SC , and reaching the final of the CAF Cup in 1993 by the Simba SC . Furthermore, both Young Africans FC and Simba SC won the CECAFA Club Cup several times , and in 2015 Azam FC won this cup for the first time.

The Tanzanian Premier League currently consists of 16 teams. The winner qualifies for the CAF Champions League , the runner-up for the CAF Confederation Cup . The three worst teams are relegated to the second-rate First Division League .

Title holder

  • 1964: Cosmopolitans FC
  • 1965: Dar Sunderland
  • 1966: Dar Sunderland
  • 1967: Cosmopolitans FC
  • 1968: Young Africans FC
  • 1969: Young Africans FC
  • 1970: Young Africans FC
  • 1971: Young Africans FC
  • 1972: Young Africans FC
  • 1973: Simba SC
  • 1974: Young Africans FC
  • 1975: Mseto Sports
  • 1976: Simba SC
  • 1977: Simba SC
  • 1978: Simba SC
  • 1979: Simba SC
  • 1980: Simba SC
  • 1981: Young Africans FC
  • 1982: Pan African FC
  • 1983: Young Africans FC
  • 1984: KMKM Zanzibar
  • 1985: Maji Maji Songea
  • 1986: Maji Maji Songea
  • 1987: Young Africans FC
  • 1988: Pan African FC
  • 1989: Malindi SC Zanzibar
  • 1990: Pamba SC Shinyanga
  • 1991: Young Africans FC
  • 1992: Malindi SC Zanzibar
  • 1993: Simba SC
  • 1994: Simba SC
  • 1995: Simba SC
  • 1996: Young Africans FC
  • 1997: Young Africans FC
  • 1998: Maji Maji Songea
  • 1999: Prisons Mbeya
  • 2000: Young Africans FC
  • 2001: Simba SC
  • 2002: Simba SC
  • 2003: Championship canceled
  • 2004: Simba SC
  • 2005: Young Africans FC
  • 2006: Young Africans FC
  • 2007: Simba SC
  • 2007/08: Young Africans FC
  • 2008/09: Young Africans FC
  • 2009/10: Simba SC
  • 2010/11: Young Africans FC
  • 2011/12: Simba SC
  • 2012/13: Young Africans FC
  • 2013/14: Azam FC
  • 2014/15: Young Africans FC
  • 2015/16: Young Africans FC
  • 2016/17: Young Africans FC
  • 2017/18: Simba SC
  • 2018/19: Simba SC

Record winner

society title year
Young Africans FC 22nd 1968–72, 1974, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Simba SC 19th 1965 (as Dar Sunderland) , 1966 (as Dar Sunderland) , 1973, 1976–1980, 1993–1995, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2018, 2019
Maji Maji Songea 3 1985, 1986, 1998
Cosmopolitans FC 2 1964, 1967
Pan African FC 2 1982, 1988
Malindi SC Zanzibar 2 1989, 1992
Mseto Sports 1 1975
KMKM Zanzibar 1 1984
Pamba SC Shinyanga 1 1990
Prisons Mbeya 1 1999
Azam FC 1 2014

See also

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  • Hardy Greens : Global Game Tanzania In: Zeitspiel - Magazine for Football History # 01, No. 1, 2015, ISSN  2365-3175 , pp. 54–61.