Zanzibar Football Association

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Zanzibar Football Association
founding	1926
CAF membership	2004
president	Ali Ferej Tamim
National teams	Men's national team

The Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) is the governing body of football in Zanzibar , one of the two autonomous states of Tanzania .

The association has been a member of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA) since 2000 and of the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) since 2004 .

history

Zanzibar has one of the oldest football traditions in Africa . The association was founded in 1926. At that time, Zanzibar was still a British colony , but indirectly ruled by the Sultan of Zanzibar . At the time, football was encouraged by both the English and the Omani. After the socialist revolution in 1963 and the final declaration of independence from the British crown in 1964, the state of Tanzania emerged from the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

FIFA

Thanks to the intensive efforts of the ZFA, above all Ali Tamim, Haroum Ali Saleman and Farouq Karim, it was possible to get a little closer to membership in FIFA by 2005, although this excluded membership in 2005.

National team

The association sets up its own national team with the Zanzibari national soccer team . In addition, the players are eligible to play in the joint Tanzanian national soccer team, but not in the Tanzanian national soccer team on the mainland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA Media Release, March 8, 2005 ( Memento of October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )