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Ground Capacity
  
60,000

Website
  
Club home page

Head coach
  
George Lwandamina

Manager
  
George Lwandamina

Nickname(s)
  
Yanga, Watoto wa Jangwani

2015-16
  
1st

Arena/Stadium
  
National Stadium

League
  
Tanzanian Premier League

Founded
  
11 February 1935

Chairman
  
Yusuf Manji

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Full name
  
Young Africans Sports Club

Ground
  
National StadiumDar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Young Africans Sports Club, locally known as Yanga, is a Tanzanian football club based in Dar es Salaam. Their home games are played at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium. It is one of the two biggest teams in Tanzanian football, their archrivals being Simba. Both teams are based in Dar es Salaam.

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The team's colors are yellow, green and black. Yanga has won more Tanzanian Premier League titles (i.e. 26 titles) than their arch rivals Simba SC (18).

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In February 1974 Young Africans played friendly match in Espírito Santo, Brazil country football, the stadium Engineer Alencar Araripe against Sports Railway losing 3–0.

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Shabani Nonda is the most notable player to play for the club. He had a stint with Yanga in the middle of the 1990s before heading to Vaal Professionals based in South Africa.

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Achievements

  • Tanzanian Premier League: 21
  • Tanzanian Cup: 4
  • CECAFA Club Cup/Kagame Interclub Cup: 5

    • Performance in CAF competitions

  • CAF Champions League: 11 appearances
  • African Cup of Champions Clubs: 11 appearances
  • CAF Confederation Cup: 4 appearances
  • CAF Cup: 2 appearances
  • CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 2 appearances

    • Current squad

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    Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

    Foreigners

    In the Tanzania VPL, only Seven non-Tanzanian nationals can be registered.

  • Amissi Tambwe
  • Obrey Chirwa
  • Haruna Niyonzima
  • Vincent Bossou
  • Thaban Kamusoko
  • Donald Ngoma
  • Justine Zulu

    • Younger Africans

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    Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

    Technical Bench

    Coach: George Lwandamina
    Assistant Coach: Juma Mwambusi
    Goalkeeper Coach: Juma Pondamali
    Doctor: Dr Edward Bavu
    Team Manager: Hafidh Saleh
    Physiotherapist: Jacob Onyango
    Kit Manager: Mahmod Omar

    Club Leadership

    Chairman: Yusuf Manji
    Vice Chairman: Clement Sanga
    General Secretary: Charles Boniface Mkwasa
    Club Information Officer: Jerry Muro
    Director of Finance & Administration: Baraka Deusdedit
    Club Accountant Officer:
    Secretary:

    References

    Young Africans S.C. Wikipedia
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