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Arusha FC
Arusha City F.C. is a Tanzanian football club from Arusha. Its home games are played at Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium. The team played in the Tanzanian Premier League in 2007, but was relegated at the end of the season to the second level and played in the Tanzanian Second Division League The First League Tanzania ("Ligi Daraja La Pili" in Swahili) is the third tier of league football in Tanzania. The league is divided into two groups, with each group having eight teams. A round-robin format is played and followed by a play-off t ..., the third tier.- Arusha FC returned to the Tanzanian Premier League for the 2010/11 season. References Football clubs in Tanzania Sport in Arusha {{Tanzania-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium
Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kaloleni ward of Arusha, Tanzania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home venue for Arusha FC. The stadium was the host of the 2011 Kilimanjaro Bowl, the first American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... game played on the continent of Africa. It holds 20,000 people. References Football venues in Tanzania Sport in Arusha Buildings and structures in Arusha Chama Cha Mapinduzi American football venues {{Tanzania-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzanian Second Division League
The First League Tanzania ("Ligi Daraja La Pili" in Swahili) is the third tier of league football in Tanzania. The league is divided into two groups, with each group having eight teams. A round-robin format is played and followed by a play-off tournament for promotion and relegation. 2017/18 season The following teams are participating in the Tanzanian Second Division League during 2017/18: Group A * Abajalo F.C. (Dar es Salaam) * Changanyikeni F.C. (Dar es Salaam) * Cosmopolitans F.C. (Dar es Salaam) *Green Warriors F.C. (Dar es Salaam) * Reha F.C. (Dar es Salaam) (promoted to this division for this season) * Villa Squad F.C. (Dar es Salaam) (promoted to this division for this season) Group B * African Sports F.C. (Tanga) (relegated to this division for this season) * Arusha F.C. (Arusha) * Kilimanjaro Heroes F.C., formerly known as Panone F.C. ( Moshi) (relegated to this division for this season) * Kitayosce F.C. (Moshi) * Madini S.C. (Arusha) * Pepsi F.C. (Arusha) Group C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arusha
Arusha City is a Tanzanian city and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District Council (2012 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, Arusha City has a temperate climate. The city is close to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Mount Meru in the Arusha National Park. The city is a major international diplomatic hub. It hosts the African Court of the African Union and is the capital of the East African Community. From 1994 to 2015, the city also hosted the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, but that entity has ceased operations. It is a multicultural city with a majority Tanzanian population of mixed backgrounds: indigenous African, Arab-Tanzanian and Indian-Tanzanian population, plus a small European and North Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanzanian Premier League
The Tanzania Mainland Premier League () is the top-level professional association football, football league in Tanzania and is administered by the Tanzania Football Federation. History The league was first organised in 1921 in Dar es Salaam. By 1929, it had six participants. In the 1930s, it included street teams such as Arab Sports (Kariakoo) and New Strong Team (Kisutu), made up mainly of Arabs and Africans respectively. The Sudanese community also had its own team, though it included other ethnicities as well. It joined the league in 1941. Other contemporary teams included the Khalsas, an exclusively Sikh team, and the Ilala Staff, a team with Ilala District, Ilalan residents. In 1942, clubs from public institutions such as the Government School, Post Office, Railways SC, King's African Rifles SC, Police SC and Medical Department started to dominate the league. However, after World War II, most teams were disbanded, many European players stopped taking part in the league, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Clubs In Tanzania
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in North America and Australia); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby union and rugby league; and Gaelic football. These various forms of football share to varying extent common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century. The expansion and cultural influence of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
