2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League Explained

Competition:Tanzanian Premier League
Season:2023–24
Winners:Young Africans
Relegated:Geita Gold
Mtibwa Sugar
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Azam
Young Africans
Continentalcup2:Confederation Cup
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Coastal Union
Simba
Matches:139
Total Goals:306
League Topscorer: Stephane Aziz Ki
(21 goals)
Prevseason:2022–23
Nextseason:2024–25

The 2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League (known as the NBC Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was 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 and ended on 28 May 2024.

The winners (Young Africans, their third consecutive title win and twenty-seventh overall) and runners-up (Azam) qualified for the Champions League. The third and fourth-placed teams (Simba and Coastal Union) qualified for the Confederation Cup. The thirteenth and fourteenth-placed teams (JKT Tanzania and Tabora United) qualified for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off, both winning and retaining their places in the league. The bottom two teams (Geita Gold and Mtibwa Sugar) were relegated to the 2024–25 Tanzanian Championship League.

Teams

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). Fourth-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

League table

Results

Each team plays each other twice (30 matches each), once at home and once away.

Tanzanian Premier League play-off

The 13th and 14th-placed teams (JKT Tanzania and Tabora United) qualified 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 faced each other over two legs; the Premier League teams then also faced 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

Second leg

Semi-finals

Second leg

Final

Second leg

Statistics

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Stephane Aziz KiYanga21
2 Feisal SalumAzam19
3 Wasiri ShentemboKMC12
4 Maxi Mpia NzengeliYanga11
Saidi NtibazonkizaSimba
6 Kipre JuniorAzam10
7 Marouf TchakeiIhefu9
Mudathir YahyaYanga
9 Jean Baleke OthosSimba8
Reliants LusajoMashujaa
Samsoni MbangulaTanzania Prisons
Gibril SillahAzam

Top clean sheets

RankGoalkeepersTeamClean sheets
1 Ley MatampiCoastal Union15
2 Djigui DiarraYanga13
3 Constantine MalimiGeita Gold10
Jonathan NahimanaNamungo
5 John NobleTabora United9
6 Yona AmosiTanzania Prisons8
Ayoub LakredSimba
8 Mohamed HusseinDodoma Jiji7
Mohamed MustaphaAzam

Multiple hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstScoreDate
Feisal SalumAzamTabora United4-016 August 2023
Jean Baleke OthosSimbaCoastal Union3-021 September 2023
Stephane Aziz KiYangaAzam3-223 October 2023
Kipre TiagoriAzamMtiwba Sugar5-024 November 2023
Wasiri ShentemboKMCTabora United4-210 March 2024
Stephane Aziz KiYangaTanzania Prisons4-128 May 2024

Notes and References

  1. News: Yanga SC beat Dodoma Jiji FC to win 29th Premiership title . 10 June 2023 . The Citizen . The Citizen . 13 May 2023 . en.
  2. Web site: 2023-06-09 . YANGA YAONGEZA NAMBA KATIKA HISTORIA – TPLB . 2023-06-10 . en-US.