Simba S.C.
Simba Sports Club is a professional football club based in Kariakoo ward in Ilala District of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
It was founded in 1936 as "The Queens" before being renamed to Sunderland and, in 1971, was finally renamed Simba. The team's nickname, wekundu wa msimbazi, is a reference to their all-red home strip and Msimbazi Street in Kariakoo where their headquarters is based.
Simba SC has won 22 Tanzanian Premier League titles, 5 Tanzania FA Cup and has participated in CAF Champions League multiple times. Simba are two times finalists of CAF Confederation Cup, In the year 2025 and previous CAF cup in 1993 making the club the most successful Tanzanian football club in international competitions.
The club was ranked among the top 20 clubs in Africa, at number 04, by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics in their May 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025 rankings. Globally, the club was ranked at number 105 in the IFFHS World Ranking.
Simba holds a long-standing rivalry with Young Africans S.C. with which they contest the Kariakoo derby, named after the ward, where both teams were founded. In 1977 Simba beat Yanga 6-0 a record that stands to date as the biggest loss margin between the sides. The rivalry was ranked 5th as one of the most famous African derbies. It remains one of the best derbies on the African continent.
Honours
Domestic
- Tanzanian Premier League
- * Winner : 1965, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21
- Nyerere Cup
- * Winner : 1984, 1995, 2000
- FAT Cup
- * Winner : 1995, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–2021
- *Runners-up : 1974, 1998, 2000
- Dar es Salaam League
- * Winner : 1944, 1946
- Tusker Cup
- * Winner : 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2005
- *Runners-up : 2006
- Community Shield
- * Winner : 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
- *Runners-up : 2001, 2010, 2021
- Mapinduzi Cup
- * Winner : 2011, 2015, 2022
- *Runners-up : 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
Continental
- CECAFA Club Championship
- * Winners : 1974, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2002
- *Runners-up : 1975, 1952, 1978, 1981, 2003, 2011, 2018
- CAF Cup
- * Runners-up : 1993
- Runners-up : 2024–25
Colours and badge
Players
Current squad
Performance in CAF competitions
CAF Champions League: 12 appearances- 2002 – First Round
- 2003 – Group stage
- 2004 – Preliminary Round
- 2005 – First Round
- 2008 – First Round
- 2011 – Special play-off for Group stage
- 2013 – Preliminary Round
- 2018–19 – Quarter-finals
- 2019–20 – Preliminary Round
- 2020–21 – Quarter-finals
- 2021–22 – Second Round
- 2022–23 – Quarter-finals
- 2023–24 – Quarter-finals
- 1974 – Semi-finals
- 1976 – Second Round
- 1977 – Second Round
- 1978 – Second Round
- 1979 – Second Round
- 1980 – Second Round
- 1981 – First Round
- 1994 – Quarter-Finals
- 1995 – Second Round
- 2007 – Preliminary Round
- 2010 – Second Round
- 2011 – Play-off
- 2012 – Second Round
- 2018 – First Round
- 2021–22 – Quarter-finals
- 2024–25 – Runners-up
- 1993 – Finalist
- 1997 – First Round
Club Ranking
World
| Ranking | Team | Points | |||||||||
| 113 |  CAF
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