Tanzanian Premier League is the top division of the Football Association of Tanzania

Football Association of Tanzania

The Tanzania Football Federation , previously Football Association of Tanzania, is the governing body of football in Tanzania. It controls the Tanzania national football team. It was founded in 1930 and has been affiliated with FIFA since 1964...

, it was created in 1965. The competition was simply known as national league and later First Division Soccer League until the name Premier league was adopted in 1997.

Format

Today the league consists of 12 teams playing a double round-robin

Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...

. The champion qualifies for the CAF Champions League

CAF Champions League

The CAF Champions League is an annual international club football competition run by the Confederation of African Football . The top club sides from Africa's football leagues are invited to participate in this competition, which is the premier club football competition on the continent and the...

, the runner-up for the CAF Confederations Cup. The bottom three clubs are relegated to the first division.

Premier League (Ligi kuu Bara) 2011-12

• African Lyon
  African Lyon
  African Lyon is a football club in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League. The club has recently been purchased by Landing Zone Enterprises.-History:...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• Azam FC
  Azam FC
  Azam Football Club is a Tanzanian football club who playing in the Tanzanian Premier League. It's a team that got promotion into the Premier League for the first time ever on the last season 2008/2009....
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• Coastal Union
  Coastal Union
  Coastal Union is a Tanzanian football club based in Tanga..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.Their home games are played at Mkwakwani Stadium.-Achievements:...
  
   (Tanga)
• JKT Oljoro FC (Arusha)
• JKT Ruvu Stars
  JKT Ruvu Stars
  JKT Ruvu Stars is a Tanzanian football club based in Dodoma.They are named after JKT Ruvu Poultry farm and they play at 25,000 capacity Uhuru Stadium.-Achievements:*Tanzanian Cup: 1...
  
   (Dodoma)
• Kagera Sugar
  Kagera Sugar
  Kagera Sugar is a football club from Bukoba, Tanzania. . They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League. They play at 5,000 capacity Kaitaba Stadium....
  
   (Bukoba)
• Moro United
  Moro United
  Moro United is a Tanzanian football club based in Morogoro..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.Their home games are played at Jamhuri Stadium.-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
   (Morogoro)
• Mtibwa Sugar FC
  Mtibwa Sugar FC
  Mtibwa Sugar Football Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Turiani. Their home games are played at Manungu Stadium.-History:Mtibwa Sugar Sports Club was founded in 1988 by a group of workers of Mtibwa Sugar Estates Ltd. who decided to form a football team which will take part in league...
  
   (Turiani)
• Polisi Dodoma
  Polisi Dodoma
  Polisi Dodoma is a Tanzanian football club based in Dodoma. Their home games are played at 10,000 capacity Dodoma Jamhuri Stadium....
  
   (Dodoma)
• Ruvu Shooting
  Ruvu Shooting
  Ruvu Shooting is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 25,000 capacity Uhuru Stadium....
  
   (Coast)
• Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• Toto African
  Toto African
  Toto African is a football club in Mwanza, Tanzania. They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League. They play their home games at the 35,000 capacity CCM Kirumba Stadium....
  
   (Mwanza)
• Villa Squad (Dar es Salaam)
• Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)

Relegated in 2010/11

• Arusha FC
  Arusha FC
  Arusha FC is a Tanzanian football club from Arusha. Their home games are played at Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium. The team played in the Tanzanian Premier League in 2007, but was sent back in the end of the season to the second level....
  
   (Arusha)
• Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 10,000 capacity Maji Maji Stadium....
  
   (Songea)

Maji Maji also use the 60,000 capacity Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium

Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium

National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, named after the 3rd president of Tanzania, Benjamin William Mkapa. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It currently holds 60,000 people. The stadium opened in 2007. The structure cost TZS 56.4bn/-. It was...

.

Relegated in 2009/10

• Manyema Rangers (Dar es Salaam)
• Moro United
  Moro United
  Moro United is a Tanzanian football club based in Morogoro..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.Their home games are played at Jamhuri Stadium.-Performance in CAF competitions:...
  
   (Morogoro)
• Prisons FC
  Prisons FC
  Prisons FC is a Tanzanian football club owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service based in Mbeya. Their home games are played at Sokoine Stadium.-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance...
  
   (Mbeya)

Previous winners

Previous champions are:

• 1965 : Sunderland
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1966 : Sunderland
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1967 : Cosmopolitans (Dar es Salaam)
• 1968 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1969 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1970 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1971 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1972 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1973 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1974 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1975 : Mseto Sports (Dar es Salaam)
• 1976 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1977 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1978 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1979 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1980 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)

• 1981 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1982 : Pan African FC
  Pan African FC
  Pan African Football SC is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.-Achievements:*Tanzanian Premier League: 2*Nyerere Cup: 1...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1983 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1984 : KMKM
  KMKM
  KMKM, full name Kikosi Maalum cha Kuzuia Magendo, is a football club from Zanzibar based in Unguja.-Achievements:*Tanzanian Premier League : 1*Zanzibar Premier League : 3*Nyerere Cup : 3*Mapinduzi Cup : 1...
  
   (Zanzibar)
• 1985 : Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 10,000 capacity Maji Maji Stadium....
  
   (Songea)
• 1986 : Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 10,000 capacity Maji Maji Stadium....
  
   (Songea)
• 1987 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1988 : Coastal Union
  Coastal Union
  Coastal Union is a Tanzanian football club based in Tanga..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.Their home games are played at Mkwakwani Stadium.-Achievements:...
  
   (Tanga)
• 1989 : Malindi FC
  Malindi FC
  Malindi Sport Club is a Zanzibar football club based in Unguja.For several years they played for the league championship of Tanzanian mainland, as winners of Zanzibar regional tournament...
  
   (Zanzibar)
• 1990 : Pamba (Mwanza)
• 1991 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1992 : Malindi FC
  Malindi FC
  Malindi Sport Club is a Zanzibar football club based in Unguja.For several years they played for the league championship of Tanzanian mainland, as winners of Zanzibar regional tournament...
  
   (Zanzibar)
• 1993 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1994 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1995 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1996 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)

• 1997 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 1998 : Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC
  Maji Maji FC is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 10,000 capacity Maji Maji Stadium....
  
   (Songea)
• 1999 : Prisons FC
  Prisons FC
  Prisons FC is a Tanzanian football club owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service based in Mbeya. Their home games are played at Sokoine Stadium.-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance...
  
   (Mbeya)
• 2000 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2001 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2002 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2003 : not awarded
• 2004 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2005 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2006 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2007 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam) [mini-league]
• 2007-08 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2008-09 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2009-10 : Simba SC
  Simba SC
  Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)
• 2010-11 : Young Africans FC
  Young Africans FC
  Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...
  
   (Dar es Salaam)

Performance by club

Club	Winners
Young Africans FC Young Africans FC Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...	18
Simba SC Simba SC Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...  (includes Sunderland)	16
Maji Maji FC Maji Maji FC Maji Maji FC is a football club based in Tanzania. They play at 10,000 capacity Maji Maji Stadium....	3
Malindi FC Malindi FC Malindi Sport Club is a Zanzibar football club based in Unguja.For several years they played for the league championship of Tanzanian mainland, as winners of Zanzibar regional tournament...	2
Pan African FC Pan African FC Pan African Football SC is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam..They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League.-Achievements:*Tanzanian Premier League: 2*Nyerere Cup: 1...	2
Cosmopolitans	1
KMKM KMKM KMKM, full name Kikosi Maalum cha Kuzuia Magendo, is a football club from Zanzibar based in Unguja.-Achievements:*Tanzanian Premier League : 1*Zanzibar Premier League : 3*Nyerere Cup : 3*Mapinduzi Cup : 1...	1
Mseto Sports	1
Prisons FC Prisons FC Prisons FC is a Tanzanian football club owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service based in Mbeya. Their home games are played at Sokoine Stadium.-Performance in CAF competitions:*CAF Champions League: 1 appearance...	1
Pamba	1

Topscorers

Year		Best scorers	Team	Goals
2004		Abubakar Ally Mkangwa	Mtibwa Sugar FC Mtibwa Sugar FC Mtibwa Sugar Football Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Turiani. Their home games are played at Manungu Stadium.-History:Mtibwa Sugar Sports Club was founded in 1988 by a group of workers of Mtibwa Sugar Estates Ltd. who decided to form a football team which will take part in league...
2005		Cisse Aadan Abshir Cisse Aadan Abshir Ciise Aden Abshir , is a much-travelled Somalian football striker who has played in Norway, Malta and Tanzania in addition to his exploits in his homeland. He is currently contracted to Norwegian minnows Eidsvold Turn...	Simba SC Simba SC Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...	19
2006		n/a	n/a
2007		n/a	n/a
2007/08		Michael Katende	Kagera Sugar Kagera Sugar Kagera Sugar is a football club from Bukoba, Tanzania. . They play in the top level of Tanzanian professional football, the Tanzanian Premier League. They play at 5,000 capacity Kaitaba Stadium....
2008/09		Boniface Ambani Boniface Ambani Boniface Ngairah Ambani is a Kenyan international footballer, who currently plays for the Tanzanian club Young Africans.-External links:** *...	Young Africans FC Young Africans FC Young Africans Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar Es Salaam. Their home games are played at National Stadium. Young Africans is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba SC. Both teams are based in Dar Es Salaam. The team's colors are...	18
2009/10		Musa Hassan Mgosi	Simba SC Simba SC Simba Sports Club is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at two stadiums Uhuru Stadium and National Stadium. Simba SC is one of two biggest football clubs in Tanzania, their archrivals being the Young Africans...	18
2010/11		Mrisho Ngasa	Azam FC Azam FC Azam Football Club is a Tanzanian football club who playing in the Tanzanian Premier League. It's a team that got promotion into the Premier League for the first time ever on the last season 2008/2009....	18

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