Young Africans S.C.

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Young Africans

Full name Young Africans Sports Club
Nickname(s) Yanga
Founded 1935
Ground
Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Capacity 60,000
Coach Mrcio Mximo
League Tanzanian Premier League
201112 3rd
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Away colours
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. The team's colors are yellow, green and black. Yanga has won more
Tanzanian Premier League titles (i.e. 24 Titles) than their arch rivals Simba SC. However, Simba
has fared much better on the continental stage than their archrivals. Yanga played their first game
of the 2011 Kagame Castle Cup on 26 June 2011. Yanga managed to draw 2-2 against Al-
Merreikh and the Sudanese team made a record by scoring all four goals (Yanga's goals were
own goals)
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.