Sokoine Stadium is a multi-use

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in the Sisimba ward of

Mbeya Mbeya is a city located in south west Tanzania, Africa. Mbeya's urban population is 620,000 according to the 2022 census. Mbeya is the capital of the surrounding rural Mbeya region (population, with Mbeya, totals approx. 2 million). Mbeya is sit ...

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, owned by the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) political party. It is used mostly for

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matches and serves as the home venue for

Prisons FC Prisons FC is a Tanzanian football club owned by the Tanzania Prisons Service based in Mbeya. Their home games are played at Sokoine Stadium. Achievements *Tanzanian Premier League The Tanzania Mainland Premier League () is the top-level pr ...

and Mbeya City F.C. It holds 20,000 people. Originally named the Mapinduzi Stadium, it was re-named Sokoine Memorial Stadium in 1984, after the death of Edward Sokoine, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tanzania.

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