# 2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League

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.
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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Young Africans (C) | 30 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 71 | 14 | +57 | 80 | Qualification for the Champions League |
| 2 | Azam | 30 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 63 | 21 | +42 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League |
| 3 | Simba | 30 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 59 | 25 | +34 | 69 | Qualification for the Confederation Cup |
| 4 | Coastal Union | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 19 | +3 | 43 | Qualification for the Confederation Cup |
| 5 | Kinondoni MC | 30 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 27 | 39 | −12 | 37 | |
| 6 | Namungo | 30 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 27 | 29 | −2 | 36 | |
| 7 | Ihefu [sw] | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 36 | −7 | 36 | |
| 8 | Mashujaa | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 33 | −3 | 35 | |
| 9 | Prisons | 30 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 29 | 35 | −6 | 34 | |
| 10 | Kagera Sugar | 30 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 23 | 32 | −9 | 34 | |
| 11 | Singida Fountain Gate | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 39 | −10 | 33 | |
| 12 | Dodoma Jiji | 30 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 32 | −13 | 33 | |
| 13 | JKT Tanzania (O) | 30 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 21 | 30 | −9 | 32 | Qualification for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off |
| 14 | Tabora United (O) | 30 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 20 | 41 | −21 | 27 | Qualification for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off |
| 15 | Geita Gold (R) | 30 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 38 | −20 | 25 | Relegation to the Tanzanian Championship League |
| 16 | Mtibwa Sugar (R) | 30 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 30 | 54 | −24 | 21 | Relegation to the Tanzanian Championship League |
* ↑ The 2023–24 Tanzania FA Cup winners also qualified for the Confederation Cup. Since the cup winners (Young Africans) qualified based on league position, the Confederation Cup spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.

## Results

Each team plays each other twice (30 matches each), once at home and once away.
| Home \ Away | AZA | COA | DOM | GGF | IHF [IHF] | JKT | KAG | KMC | MAS | MTI | NAM | PRI | SIM | SIN | TAB | YGA |
| Azam | — | 1–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 5–1 | 5–0 | 0–0 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 |
| Coastal Union | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| Dodoma Jiji | 0–0 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–4 |
| Geita Gold | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | — | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Ihefu [sw] | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| JKT Tanzania | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Kagera Sugar | 0–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Kinondoni MC | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 0–3 |
| Mashujaa | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Mtibwa Sugar | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | — | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–3 |
| Namungo | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 3–2 | 1–3 |
| Prisons | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–0 | — | 1–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| Simba | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–5 |
| Singida Fountain Gate | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | — | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Tabora United | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | — | 0–1 |
| Young Africans | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | — |

## 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.

### Final
#### First leg
#### Second leg
## Statistics
### Top goalscorers

| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Stephane Aziz Ki | Yanga | 21 |
| 2 | Feisal Salum | Azam | 19 |
| 3 | Waziri Shentembo | KMC | 12 |
| 4 | Maxi Mpia Nzengeli | Yanga | 11 |
| 4 | Saidi Ntibazonkiza | Simba | 11 |
| 6 | Kipre Junior | Azam | 10 |
| 7 | Marouf Tchakei | Ihefu | 9 |
| 7 | Mudathir Yahya | Yanga | 9 |
| 9 | Jean Baleke Othos | Simba | 8 |
| 9 | Reliants Lusajo | Mashujaa | 8 |
| 9 | Samsoni Mbangula | Tanzania Prisons | 8 |
| 9 | Gibril Sillah | Azam | 8 |

### Top clean sheets

| Rank | Goalkeepers | Team | Clean sheets |
| 1 | Ley Matampi | Coastal Union | 15 |
| 2 | Djigui Diarra | Yanga | 13 |
| 3 | Constantine Malimi | Geita Gold | 10 |
| 3 | Jonathan Nahimana | Namungo | 10 |
| 5 | John Noble | Tabora United | 9 |
| 6 | Yona Amosi | Tanzania Prisons | 8 |
| 6 | Ayoub Lakred | Simba | 8 |
| 8 | Mohamed Hussein | Dodoma Jiji | 7 |
| 8 | Mohamed Mustapha | Azam | 7 |

### Multiple hat-tricks

| 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 |
| Waziri Shentembo | KMC | Tabora United | 4-2 | 10 March 2024 |
| Stephane Aziz Ki | Yanga | Tanzania Prisons | 4-1 | 28 May 2024 |

## Attendances

Young Africans SC drew the highest average home attendance in the 2023-24 edition of the Tanzanian Premier League, followed by rivals Simba SC.
| # | Football club | Total attendance | Home games | Average attendance |
| 1 | Young Africans | 141,911 | 15 | 9,460 |
| 2 | Simba SC | 112,717 | 15 | 7,514 |
| 3 | Mashujaa | 45,638 | 15 | 3,042 |
| 4 | Tabora United | 43,808 | 15 | 2,920 |
| 5 | Azam FC | 35,379 | 15 | 2,358 |
| 6 | Dodoma Jiji | 30,381 | 15 | 2,025 |
| 7 | Geita Gold | 24,774 | 15 | 1,651 |
| 8 | Coastal Union | 24,161 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 9 | Tanzania Prisons | 24,147 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 10 | Singida Fountain Gate | 21,154 | 15 | 1,410 |
| 11 | KMC FC | 15,495 | 15 | 1,033 |
| 12 | Ihefu FC | 15,075 | 15 | 1,005 |
| 13 | Namungo FC | 14,202 | 15 | 946 |
| 14 | Kagera Sugar | 12,323 | 15 | 821 |
| 15 | JKT Mgambo | 9,397 | 15 | 626 |
| 16 | Mtibwa Sugar | 7,529 | 15 | 501 |