Tanzania - List of Cup Winners (original) (raw)

Cup tournaments held in colonial times included (around the 1940s): Higgynson Cup, Pall Mall Cup, Sunlight Cup (a national tournament for clubs from 8 different provinces, later renamed Taifa Cup), Janmohamed Cup.

Nyerere Cup (Mainland and Zanzibar)

1974 JKU (Zanzibar)
1975 Young Africans FC (Dar-es-Salaam) [aka Yanga] 1976 Rangers International (Dar-es-Salaam) 1977 KMKM (Zanzibar) 1978 Pan African SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1979 Pan African SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1980 Coastal Union (Tanga) 1981 Pan African SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1982 KMKM (Zanzibar) 1983 KMKM (Zanzibar) 1984 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1985 Miembeni SC (Zanzibar) 1986 Miembeni SC (Zanzibar) 1987 Miembeni SC (Zanzibar) 1988 Coastal Union (Tanga) 1989 Pamba FC (Mwanza) 1990 Small Simba SC (Zanzibar) 1991 Railways SC (Morogoro) 1992 Pamba FC (Mwanza) 2-1 Morogori Tumabaku 1993 Malindi SC (Zanzibar) 1994 Young Africans FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1995 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1996 Sigara (Dar-es-Salaam)
1997 Tanzania Stars (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Mlandege (Zanzibar) 1998 Tanzania Stars (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Prisons (Mbeya) 1999 Young Africans FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2000 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Mtibwa Sugar 2001 Polisi (Zanzibar) 2-0 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam)
2002 JKT Ruvu Stars (Coast Region) 1-0 KMKM (Zanzibar)

NB: in many of the above years, in particular in the eighties, the runners-up of the championship play-offs qualified for the African Cup Winners Cup, but no separate cup competition was played. It is not exactly clear for which years (before 1997) this applies.

Number of Wins (29)

3 KMKM (Zanzibar) Miembeni SC (Zanzibar) Pan African SC (Dar-es-Salaam) Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) Young Africans FC (Dar-es-Salaam) [aka Yanga]

2 Coastal Union (Tanga) Pamba FC (Mwanza) Tanzania Stars (Dar-es-Salaam)

1 JKT Ruvu Stars (Coast Region) JKU (Zanzibar) [aka Jeshi] Malindi SC (Zanzibar) Polisi (Zanzibar)
Railways SC (Morogoro) [aka Reli] Rangers International (Dar-es-Salaam) Sigara (Dar-es-Salaam) [aka Kashimulo] Small Simba SC (Zanzibar)

FAT Cup (Mainland)

1967 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-0 Liverpool 1974 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) [aet] 1985 Maji Maji (Songea)
1995 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1996 Sigara bt Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1997 Tanzania Stars (Dar-es-Salaam) 1998 Tanzania Stars (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-0 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam)
1999 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2000 Mtibwa Sugar 1-0 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2001 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-0 Moro United (Morogoro) 2002 JKT Ruvu Stars (Coast Region) bt Baker Rangers (Manzese)
2003-15 not played Azam Sports Federation Cup 2015/16 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 3-1 Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam)
2016/17 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Mbao (Mwanza) [aet] 2017/18 Mtibwa Sugar 3-2 Singida United 2018/19 Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Lipuli FC (Iringa) 2019/20 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Namungo FC (Lindi) 2020/21 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2021/22 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 3-3 Coastal Union FC (Tanga) [aet, 4-1 pen] 2022/23 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2023/24 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 0-0 Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam) [aet, 6-5 pen]

Number of Wins (9 (since 2015/16), runners-up finishes between square brackets)

4 [ 1] Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam)

3 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam)

1 [ 3] Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1 Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani)

[ 1] Coastal Union FC (Tanga) [ 1] Lipuli FC (Iringa) [ 1] Mbao (Mwanza) [ 1] Namungo FC (Lindi) [ 1] Singida United

Taifa Cup

NB: previously known as Sunlight Cup; contested by teams representing regions

Incomplete records:

Year Winners

1964 Coast 1965 Tanga 1966 Kilimanjaro 1967 Coast 1968 Coast 1969 Tanga 1970 Morogoro 1971 Kilimanjaro 1972 Coast 1973 Tanga 1974 Morogoro 1975 Dar es Salaam 1976 Dar es Salaam 1977 Dar es Salaam 1978 Kilimanjaro 1981 Dar es Salaam 1983 Dar es Salaam 1984 Mwanza 1985 Mwanza 1986 Dar es Salaam 1987 Dar es Salaam 1998 Dar es Salaam 1999-04 not held 2005 Mbeya 2-1 Mtwara 2006/07 Dar es Salaam 1-0 Coast 2008 Ilala 5-0 Kinondoni 2009 Ilala 1-0 Temeke 2010 Singida 3-0 Lindi 2011 Mbeya 1-0 Mwanza

Tusker Cup

Ed Year Winners Runners-Up 1 2001 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) bt Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2 2002 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 4-1 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 3 2003 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani)

NB: while the first three editions were all-Tanzanian affairs, the fourth edition in 2005 included two guest teams (Tusker from Kenya and SC Villa from Uganda) and was followed by a truly international fifth edition in Kenya (which is not always included in the series); the above four editions and all editions from 2006 onwards were held in Tanzania. At the 2002, 2003 and 2005 finals, also the Tanzania Community Shield was contested.

5 2005 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Tusker (Nairobi) 6 2006 Kagera Sugar (Bukoba) 2-1 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) [aet] 7 2007 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani) 8 2008 Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani) 1-0 URA (Kampala) 9 2009 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Sofapaka (Nairobi)

Number of Wins (9, runners-up finishes between square brackets)

5 [ 1] Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam)

2 [ 3] Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam)

1 [ 2] Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani) 1 Kagera Sugar (Bukoba)

[ 1] Sofapaka (Nairobi) [ 1] Tusker (Nairobi) [ 1] URA (Kampala)

NB: includes 2005 edition held in Kenya

Tanzania Community Shield ("Ngao ya Jamii")

NB: between the champions and cup winners; the editions played in 2002, 2003 and 2005 also served as finals for the Tusker Challenge Cup.

Ed Year Winners Runners-Up 1 2001 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 2-1 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam)
2 2002 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 4-1 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 3 2003 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani)

Number of Wins (20; lost finals between square brackets)

10 [ 4] Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam)

8 [ 7] Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam)

1 [ 6] Azam FC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1 [ 2] Mtibwa Sugar (Turiani)

[ 1] Namungo FC (Lindi)

Number of League-and-Cup Doubles (7)

NB: involves Nyerere Cup until 2002 and Azam Sports Federation Cup since 2015

4 Young African FC (Dar-es-Salaam) [2016, 2022, 2023, 2024]

3 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) [1995, 2020, 2021]

Various Minor Cups

Nargis Cup 1950 Coastal Union SC (Tanga) bt Arab Boys (Tanga)

Healtho Cup 1957 Coastal Union SC (Tanga)

Mwafrika Cup 1958 Coastal Union SC (Tanga)

BIMA Cup (organized by the National Insurance Corporation) 1971 Simba SC (Dar-es-Salaam) 1-0 Coastal Union SC (Tanga)

Ofuma Cup 1976 Coastal Union SC (Tanga)

Arusha International Conference Centre Cup Arusha 1987 Nchanga Rangers (Chingola) bt Coastal Union SC (Tanga)
NB: Nchanga Rangers are from Zambia

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