Back يانغ أفريكانز Arabic نادى يانج افريكانز ARZ Young Africans Football Club Catalan Young Africans SC German Young Africans SC Spanish باشگاه ورزشی یانگ افریکنز Persian Young Africans Sports Club French Young Africans Sports Club Italian Янг Африканс Kazakh Young Africans SC Lithuanian
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| Full name | Young Africans Sports Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Yanga SC Vijana Stars (The Young Stars) | ||
| Founded | 11 February 1935, as New Young | ||
| Stadium | Benjamin Mkapa Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 60,000 | ||
| Manager | Miguel Gamondi[1] | ||
| League | Tanzanian Premier League | ||
| 2023–24 | Tanzanian Premier League, 1st of 16 (champions) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Young Africans Sports Club (commonly referred as Yanga) is a Tanzania professional football club based at Jangwani ward of Ilala District in Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania. Founded in 1935, the club plays their home games at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Chang'ombe ward of Temeke District.
Nicknamed Yanga Timu ya Wananchi,[3] the club has won 30 Tanzanian Premier League titles and number of domestic cups, and have participated in multiple CAF Champions League editions. They have won the CECAFA Club Championship five times.
The club was ranked among the top ten clubs in Africa, at number 80, by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in their 1 September 2022 – 30 August 2023 rankings. Globally, the club was ranked at number 104 in the IFFHS World Ranking.[4][5]
The club became a symbol of the anti-colonial movement. Young Africans became associated with nationalists, freedom fighters and Sam Gosmore and inspired the political party TANU to adopt yellow and green as their primary colours. The club is currently in a process that will keep the club ownership 49% for investors and the rest 51% to the club members.
The club holds a long-standing rivalry with Simba, with whom they contest the Kariakoo derby, named after the district where both teams were founded. The rivalry was ranked 5th as one of the most famous African derbies.[6]
On Wednesday, 17 May 2023, Young Africa made history when they became the first Tanzanian club to reach a CAF Confederation Cup final after defeating Marumo Gallants 4-1 on aggregate and they faced USM Algiers from Algeria on the Cup's Finals which they lost 2-2 on aggregate due to away goals .[7][8][9]
After winning the Tanzania Premier League Championship for a third consecutive time in the 2023-24 season, Yanga achieved a historical milestone of winning the country's Premier League title for the 30th time.
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