Tanzania national football team

The Tanzania national football team (Swahili: Timu ya Taifa ya Mpira wa Miguu ya Tanzania) represents Tanzania in men's international football and is controlled by the Tanzania Football Federation, the governing body for football in Tanzania, Tanzania's home ground is Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar-es-Salaam and their interim head coach is Etienne Ndayiragije from Burundi. Tanzania has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup. Before uniting with Zanzibar, the team played as the Tanganyika national football team, The team represents both FIFA and Confederation of African Football (CAF).

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Tanzania women's national football team.

Tanzania
Nickname(s)Taifa Stars
AssociationTanzania Football Federation
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationCECAFA (East & Central Africa)
Head coachEtienne Ndayiragije
CaptainMbwana Samatta
Most capsMrisho Ngasa (100)
Top scorerMrisho Ngasa (25)
Home stadiumNational Stadium
FIFA codeTAN
First colours
Second colours
Third colours
FIFA ranking
Current 135 (10 December 2020)[1]
Highest65 (February 1995)
Lowest175 (October–November 2005)
First international
 Uganda 7–0 Tanganyika
(Uganda; 1945)
Biggest win
 Tanzania 7–0 Somalia 
(Jinja, Uganda; December 1, 1995)
 Tanzania 7–0 Somalia 
(Kampala, Uganda; December 1, 2012)
Biggest defeat
 Tanganyika 0–9 Kenya 
(Tanganyika; 1956)
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances2 (first in 1980)
Best resultGroup stage (1980 and 2019)

The island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania (and once an independent nation), is also an associate member of CAF and has played matches with other nations, but is not eligible to enter the World Cup or Africa Cup of Nations. See Zanzibar national football team.

History

Since qualifying for the 1980 Africa Cup of Nations, Tanzania endured nearly 40 years without major success, struggling in both African and World Cup qualifiers. Their best effort was in 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, where the Taifa Stars defeated Burkina Faso twice and only finished three points behind group winners Senegal. In 2010 Tanzania won the CECAFA Cup for the third time.

A recent achievement was a 1–0 win against South Africa in the 2017 COSAFA Cup Quarter-finals. But afterwards, Tanzania lost the Semi-finals 2–4 to Zambia. Then, in the Third-place playoff, Tanzania managed to win the match against Lesotho 4–2 in a penalty shootout after the extra time ended in a goalless draw. This Third place was considered Tanzania's biggest football achievement in many years.

On 24 March 2019, Tanzania beat East African rivals Uganda 3–0 to reach the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 39 years. At the Finals the Taifa Stars, being the weakest team in the group, lost all three Group C matches as predicted. A few months later, Tanzania qualified for the African Nations Championship for only the second time, as well as defeating Burundi in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

Honours
CECAFA Cup :

Competitive record

World Cup record
FIFA World Cup record FIFA World Cup Qualification record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
1930 to 1970 Did not enter Did not enter
1974 Did not qualify 3 0 2 1 1 4
1978 Withdrew Withdrew
1982 Did not qualify 4 1 1 2 7 6
1986 2 0 2 0 1 1
1990 Did not enter Did not enter
1994 Withdrew during qualifying Withdrew during qualifying
1998 Did not qualify 2 0 1 1 1 2
2002 2 0 0 2 2 4
2006 2 0 1 1 0 3
2010 6 2 2 2 9 6
2014 8 3 0 5 10 14
2018 4 1 1 2 4 10
2022 To be determined To be determined
2026 To be determined To be determined
Total 0/21 33 7 10 16 35 50

Africa Cup of Nations record
Main article: Tanzania at the Africa Cup of Nations
Africa Cup of Nations
Appearances: 2
Year Round Position Pld W D L GF GA
1957Not affiliated to CAF
1959
1962
1963
1965
1968Withdrew during qualifying
1970Did not qualify
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980Group stage7th301236
1982Withdrew
1984Did not qualify
1986Withdrew during qualifying
1988Did not qualify
1990
1992
1994Withdrew during qualifying
1996Did not qualify
1998
2000
2002
2004Withdrew during qualifying
2006Did not qualify
2008
2010
2012
2013
2015
2017
2019Group stage24th300328
2021To be determined
2023
2025
TotalGroup stage2/326015514

African Nations Championship record
African Nations Championship
Appearances: 1
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
2009Group stage5th311122
2011Did not qualify
2014
2016
2018
2020Group stage10th311134
2022To be determined
Total Group stage 2/6 6 2 2 2 5 6

African Games
Football at the African Games has been an under-23 tournament since 1991.
African Games Record
Year Result GP W D L GS GA
1965-000000
1973-000000
1978-000000
1987-000000
1991–present See Tanzania national under-23 football team
Total4/4000000

Gossage Cup / CECAFA Cup
Main article: CECAFA Cup

Recent results and fixtures

  Win   Draw   Loss

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2020
11 October Friendly Tanzania  0–1  Burundi Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
 Stadium: National Stadium
13 November 2021 AFCONQ Tunisia  1–0  Tanzania Radès, Tunisia
20:00 UTC+1
Report Stadium: Stade Olympique de Rades
Referee: Helder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)
17 November 2021 AFCONQ Tanzania  1–1  Tunisia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
22:00 UTC+3
  • Salum  48'
 Report
Stadium: National Stadium
Referee: Celso Alvação (Mozambique)

2021
22 March 2021 AFCONQ Equatorial Guinea  v  Tanzania
--:-- UTC+1
30 March 2021 AFCONQ Tanzania  v  Libya
--:-- UTC+3

Players

Current squad

The following 23 players were selected for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification against Tunisia.[2]

Caps and goals updated as of 13 November 2020 after the game against Tunisia.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Juma Kaseja (1985-04-13) 13 April 1985 71 0 KMC
13 1GK Metacha Mnata (1998-11-25) 25 November 1998 3 0 Young Africans
18 1GK Aishi Manula (1995-09-13) 13 September 1995 34 0 Simba
30 1GK David Kisu (1997-08-05) 5 August 1997 2 0 Azam
2 2DF Abdalla Kheri (1996-11-11) 11 November 1996 2 0 Azam
3 2DF David Brayson 0 0 KMC
4 2DF Erasto Nyoni (1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 90 6 Simba
5 2DF Bakari Mwamnyeto (1997-11-05) 5 November 1997 10 0 Young Africans
15 2DF Mohamed Husseini (1996-11-01) 1 November 1996 20 0 Simba
21 2DF Shomari Kapombe (1992-01-28) 28 January 1992 64 1 Simba
23 2DF Iddy Nado (1995-11-03) 3 November 1995 8 0 Azam
24 2DF Abdalla Haji Shaibu (1998-10-21) 21 October 1998 0 0 Young Africans
6 3MF Feisal Salum (1998-01-11) 11 January 1998 8 0 Young Africans
7 3MF Himid Mao (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 53 1 ENPPI
12 3MF Simon Msuva (1993-10-02) 2 October 1993 58 11 Difaâ El Jadidi
14 3MF Raphael Bocco (captain) (1989-08-05) 5 August 1989 67 14 Simba
16 3MF Saidi Ndemla (1996-03-11) 11 March 1996 16 1 Simba
19 3MF Mzamiru Yassin (1996-01-03) 3 January 1996 24 0 Simba
20 3MF Jonas Mkude (1992-12-03) 3 December 1992 30 0 Simba
8 4FW Adam Adam 0 0 JKT Ruvu Stars
9 4FW Ditram Nchimbi (1997-03-10) 10 March 1997 10 1 Young Africans
11 3MF Deus Kaseke (1994-08-27) 27 August 1994 7 0 Young Africans
17 4FW Faridi Mussa (1995-06-21) 21 June 1995 27 0 Young Africans

Recent call-ups

The following players have been called up for Tanzania in the last 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
MF Salum Abubakar (1992-08-26) 26 August 1992 43 1 Azam v.  Tunisia, 13 November 2020
FW Mbwana SamattaINJ (1992-01-07) 7 January 1992 55 20 Fenerbahçe v.  Burundi, 11 October 2020

DEC Player refused to join the team after the call-up.
INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
PRE Preliminary squad.
RET Player has retired from international football.
SUS Suspended from the national team.

Coaches

References
  1. "The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. Iranzi, Fabrice (3 September 2019). "2022 World Cup Qualifiers: Tanzania Taifa Stars took a flight to Burundi". RegionWeek.
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