Premier League (Tanzania)
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
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Record winner
society | title | year |
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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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