2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League
Season | 2023–24 |
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Dates | 15 August 2023 – 29 May 2024 |
Champions | Young Africans |
Champions League | Young Africans |
Matches played | 139 |
Goals scored | 306 (2.2 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Stephane Aziz Ki (15 goals) |
← 2022–23 2024–25 →
All statistics correct as of 28 February 2024. |
The 2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League (known as the NBC Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the 59th season of the Tanzanian Premier League, the top-tier football league in Tanzania (mainland only), since its establishment in 1965. The season started on 15 August 2023.
The winners (Young Africans, their third consecutive title win and twenty-seventh overall) and runners-up qualify for the Champions League. The third and fourth-placed teams qualify for the Confederation Cup. The thirteenth and fourteenth-placed teams qualify for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off. The bottom two teams are relegated to the Tanzanian Championship League.
Teams[edit]
The league consisted of 16 teams; the top 13 teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from the Tanzanian Championship League. Young Africans entered the season as defending champions (for the second consecutive season), clinching their 26th Premier League title during the previous season.[1][2]
JKT Tanzania and Tabora United were promoted as champions and runners-up of the 2022–23 Tanzanian Championship League, replacing the 2022–23 Tanzanian Premier League bottom two teams (Polisi Morogoro and Ruvu Shooting). Third-placed Championship side Mashujaa were also promoted after defeating fourteenth-placed Premier League side Mbeya City in the Tanzanian Premier League play-off to take their place in the league.
Locations[edit]
League table[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Young Africans (C, Q) | 27 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 60 | 13 | +47 | 71 | Qualification for the Champions League |
2 | Azam (Y) | 27 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 20 | +34 | 60 | |
3 | Simba (Y) | 27 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 52 | 24 | +28 | 60 | Qualification for the Confederation Cup[a] |
4 | Coastal Union | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 18 | +2 | 38 | |
5 | Kinondoni MC | 28 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 27 | 38 | −11 | 36 | |
6 | Prisons | 28 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 26 | 29 | −3 | 33 | |
7 | Namungo | 28 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 25 | −3 | 32 | |
8 | Ihefu | 27 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 32 | −9 | 32 | |
9 | JKT Tanzania | 27 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 26 | −5 | 31 | |
10 | Kagera Sugar | 27 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 23 | −5 | 31 | |
11 | Dodoma Jiji | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 25 | −8 | 30 | |
12 | Singida Fountain Gate | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 35 | −10 | 30 | |
13 | Mashujaa | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 31 | −7 | 29 | Qualification for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off |
14 | Tabora United | 27 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 34 | −17 | 26 | |
15 | Geita Gold | 27 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 30 | −14 | 25 | Relegation to the Tanzanian Championship League |
16 | Mtibwa Sugar (Z) | 28 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 21 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Play-off
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (Y) Assured of least Confederation Cup; (Z) Assured of Tanzanian Premier League play-off at best
Notes:
- ^ The 2023–24 Tanzania FA Cup winners also qualified for the Confederation Cup. Since the cup winners (Azam or Young Africans) qualified based on league position, the Confederation Cup spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.
Results[edit]
Each team plays each other twice (30 matches each), once at home and once away.
Tanzanian Premier League play-off[edit]
The 13th and 14th-placed teams from the Tanzanian Premier League qualify for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off, alongside the 3rd and 4th-placed teams from the 2023–24 Tanzanian Championship League (Mbeya Kwanza and Biashara United). The Championship teams face each other over two legs; the Premier League teams then also face each other over two legs, with the winners remaining in the Tanzanian Premier League and the losers competing against the Championship play-off winners for the final place in the following season's Tanzanian Premier League.
Quarter-finals[edit]
First leg[edit]
19 May 2024 | Biashara United | 2–0 | Mbeya Kwanza | Musoma |
Stadium: Karume Football Stadium |
Second leg[edit]
26 May 2024 | Mbeya Kwanza | v | Biashara United | Mtwara |
Stadium: Nangwanda Sijaona Stadium |
Statistics[edit]
Top goalscorers[edit]
Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Stephane Aziz Ki | Yanga | 15 |
2 | Feisal Salum | Azam | 13 |
3 | Wasiri Shentembo | KMC | 11 |
4 | Maxi Mpia Nzengeli | Yanga | 9 |
5 | Jean Baleke Othos | Simba | 8 |
Samsoni Mbangula | Tanzania Prisons | ||
Marouf Tchakei | Ihefu | ||
Mudathir Yahya | Yanga |
Top clean sheets[edit]
Rank | Goalkeepers | Team | Clean sheets |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ley Matampi | Coastal Union | 10 |
2 | Djigui Diarra | Yanga | 9 |
3 | Constantine Malimi | Geita Gold | 7 |
John Noble | Tabora United | ||
5 | Yona Amosi | Tanzania Prisons | 6 |
Jonathan Nahimana | Namungo | ||
7 | Ramadhani Chalamanda | Kagera Sugar | 5 |
Ayoub Lakred | Simba |
Multiple hat-tricks[edit]
Player | For | Against | Score | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Feisal Salum | Azam | Tabora United | 4-0 | 16 August 2023 |
Jean Baleke Othos | Simba | Coastal Union | 3-0 | 21 September 2023 |
Stephane Aziz Ki | Yanga | Azam | 3-2 | 23 October 2023 |
Kipre Tiagori | Azam | Mtiwba Sugar | 5-0 | 24 November 2023 |
Wasiri Shentembo | KMC | Tabora United | 4-2 | 10 March 2024 |
References[edit]
- ^ "Yanga SC beat Dodoma Jiji FC to win 29th Premiership title". The Citizen. The Citizen. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
- ^ "YANGA YAONGEZA NAMBA KATIKA HISTORIA – TPLB". 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2023-06-10.