Tanzania national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Taifa Stars | ||
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| Association | Tanzania Football Federation | ||
| Sub-confederation | CECAFA (East & Central Africa) | ||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||
| Home stadium | National Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | TAN | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current | 126  6 (7 January 2016) |
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| Highest | 65 (February 1995) | ||
| Lowest | 175 (October 2005) | ||
| First international | |||
 Uganda 7–0 Tanganyika  (Uganda; Date unknown, 1945) |
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| Africa Cup of Nations | |||
| Appearances | 1 (First in 1980) | ||
| Best result | Round 1 | ||
The Tanzania national football team (Swahili: Timu ya Taifa ya Mpira wa Miguu ya Tanzania) represents Tanzania in association 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 head coach is Mart Nooij from the Netherlands. Tanzania has never qualified for the World Cup finals. Before uniting with Zanzibar, the team played as the Tanganyika national football team.
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.
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History
Recently Tanzania has invested more money in the team in hope of improvement. Tanzania has beaten Burkina Faso twice in the African Nations cup qualifiers and beat Cameroon 1-0 in a friendly match. The most recent result was a 3–1 win against Morocco in World Cup Qualifying in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Tanzania was drenched by Algéria 7-0 in the 2018 world cup qualifiers.
Honours
Competition records
World Cup record
- 1930 to 1970 – Did not enter
- 1974 – Did not qualify
- 1978 – Withdrew
- 1982 to 1986 – Did not qualify
- 1990 – Did not enter
- 1994 – Withdrew during qualifying
- 1998 to 2018 – Did not qualify
Africa Cup of Nations record
Recent results
| 5 March 2014 International friendly |  Namibia |
1–1 |  Tanzania |
Sam Nujoma Stadium, Katutura, Windhoek |
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| 18:30 | Nekundi  90+5' |
Report | Mcha 87' |
| 18 May 2014 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualificiation |
Tanzania |
1–0 |  Zimbabwe |
Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, Dar es Salaam |
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| 16:00 | Bocco 14' |
Report | Referee: Joseph Lamptey (Ghana) |
| 27 May 2014 International friendly | Tanzania |
1–0 |  Malawi |
Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, Dar es Salaam |
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| 14:00 | Kiemba 36' |
Report | Referee: Israel Nkongo (Tanzania) |
| 1 June 2014 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualificiation |
Zimbabwe |
2–2 | Tanzania |
National Sports Stadium, Harare |
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| 13:00 | Phiri 3' Katsande 55' |
Report | Haroub 21' Ulimwengu 46' |
Referee: Bernard Camille (Seychelles) |
Current squad
The following squad has been selected for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Zimbabwe on 18 May – 1 June 2014[1] and friendly match against Malawi on 27 May 2014.
Cap and goals updated as 1 June 2014.[2]
Coaches
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- Mahammed Msomali (1980-1981)
Jeff Hardson (1977-1979)
Burkhard Pape (2000–02)
James Siang'a (2002)- Mshindo Msolla (2002–03)
- Badru Hafidh (2003–06)
Júlio César Leal (2006)- Márcio Máximo (2006–10)
Jan Poulsen (2010–12)- Kim Poulsen (2012–14)
- Salum Madadi (2014, caretaker)
Mart Nooij (2014–2015)
References
External links
- Tanzania at FIFA.com
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