Tanzania national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Tanzania
Badge = Tanzania_FA.gif
Nickname = Taifa Stars
Association = Tanzania Football Federation
Confederation = CAF (Africa)
Coach = Marcio Maximo
Most caps =
Top scorer =
Home Stadium = Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium
FIFA Trigramme = TAN
FIFA Rank = 117
FIFA max = 89
FIFA max date = December 2007
FIFA min = 175
FIFA min date = October 2005

Elo Rank = 128

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First game =fb|Uganda|colonial 7 - 0 Tanganyika flagicon|Tanganyika|colonial (Uganda; Date Unknown, 1945)
Largest win =flagicon|Tanzania Tanzania 7 - 0 fb-rt|Somalia (Jinja, Uganda; December 1, 1995)
Largest loss = fb|Ethiopia|1897 7 - 0 Tanzania flagicon|Tanzania (Ethiopia; October 8, 1969)

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Regional name = African Nations Cup
Regional cup apps = 1
Regional cup first = 1980
Regional cup best = Round 1, 1980

The Tanzania national football team, nicknamed the "Taifa Stars", is the national team of Tanzania and is controlled by the Football Association of Tanzania. It has never qualified for the World Cup finals.

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 African Cup of Nations. See "Zanzibar national football team".

Tanzania Recent History

Recently Tanzania has invested more money in the team in hope of improvement. Tanzania has beaten Burkina Faso in the African Nations cup qualifiers and lost 4-0 to Senegal's national football team. The most recent result was a 1-1 draw against Mauritius in a 2010 World Cup qualification match held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Tanzania Football Achievements

:CECAFA Cup :::*2 Times Champion (1974, 1994)::*5 Times Runners-up

World Cup record

*1930 to 1970 - "Did not enter"
*1974 - "Did not qualify"
*1978 - "Withdrew"
*1982 - "Did not qualify"
*1986 - "Did not qualify"
*1990 - "Did not enter"
*1994 - "Withdrew during qualifying"
*1998 to 2010 - "Did not qualify"

African Nations Cup record

*1957 to 1965 - "Did not enter"
*1968 - "Withdrew during qualifying"
*1970 to 1978 - "Did not qualify"
*1980 - Round 1
*1982 - "Withdrew"
*1984 - "Did not qualify"
*1986 - "Withdrew during qualifying"
*1988 to 1992 - "Did not qualify"
*1994 - "Withdrew during qualifying"
*1996 to 2002 - "Did not qualify"
*2004 - "Withdrew during qualifying"
*2006 to 2010 - "Did not qualify"

Current Squad

The following players were called for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Cameroon on June 21 2008.

Recent Call-ups 2008