Tanzania national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Taifa Stars |
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| Association | Tanzania Football Federation |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | CECAFA (East & Central Africa) |
| Head coach | Salum Mayanga (interim) |
| Most caps | Mrisho Ngasa (90) |
| Home stadium | National Stadium |
| FIFA code | TAN |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 135  22 (6 April 2017)
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| Highest | 65 (February 1995) |
| Lowest | 175 (October–November 2005) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 123 (26 March 2017) |
| Highest | 75 (11 November 1979) |
| Lowest | 168 (19 December 2004) |
| First international | |
 Uganda 7–0 Tanganyika  (Uganda; Date unknown, 1945) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Tanzania 7–0 Somalia  (Jinja, Uganda; December 1, 1995) Tanzania 7–0 Somalia (Kampala, Uganda; December 1, 2012) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
Tanganyika 0–9 Kenya  (Tanganyika; Date unknown 1956) |
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| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1980) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1980 |
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.
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 defeated by Algeria 7–0 in the 2018 world cup qualifiers.
The following squad has been selected for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Zimbabwe on 18 May – 1 June 2014 and friendly match against Malawi on 27 May 2014.
Cap and goals updated as 1 June 2014.
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