Nathaniel Chilambo

Simba
Full name	Simba Sports Club
Nicknames	Reds of Msimbazi, Wekundu wa Msimbazi (The Red Lions)
Short name	SSC
Founded	1936; 90 years ago
Ground	Benjamin Mkapa Stadium
Capacity	60,000
Owner(s)	Member of SSC 51%; Mohammed Dewji 49%
Chairman	Murtaza Mangungu
Head Coach	Steve Barker
League	Tanzanian Premier League
2025–26	Tanzanian Premier League, 2nd of 16
Website	www.simbasc.co.tz
	Current season

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 (Swahili for "Lion"). The team's nickname, wekundu wa msimbazi ("the Red Lions"), 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 (IFFHS) 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. (known as Yanga) 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 (22): 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 (3): 1984, 1995, 2000
FAT Cup
- Winner (5): 1995, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–2021, 2025–26
- Runners-up (3): 1974, 1998, 2000
Muungano Cup
- Winner (1): 2025–26
Dar es Salaam League
- Winner (2): 1944, 1946
Tusker Cup
- Winner (5): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2005
- Runners-up (1): 2006
Community Shield
- Winner (10): 2002, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
- Runners-up (3): 2001, 2010, 2021
Mapinduzi Cup
- Winner (3): 2011, 2015, 2022
- Runners-up (5): 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021

Continental

CECAFA Club Championship
- Winners (6): 1974, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2002
- Runners-up (7): 1975, 1952, 1978, 1981, 2003, 2011, 2018
CAF Cup
- Runners-up (1): 1993

CAF Confederation Cup

Runners-up (1): 2024–25

Colours and badge

The present crest

Players

Current squad

As of 26 July 2026^{[failed verification]}

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
3	DF	TAN	Nickson Kibabage
4	DF	TAN	Vedastus Masinde
5	DF	TAN	Antony Mligo
10	FW	CGO	Inno Loemba
12	DF	TAN	Shomari Kapombe (Captain)
14	DF	TAN	Abdulrazack Hamza
15	DF	TAN	David Kameta
17	FW	KEN	Mohammed Bajaber
18	MF	TAN	Morice Abraham
21	MF	TAN	Yusuph Kagoma
22	GK	TAN	Yakoub Suleiman Ali
23	DF	RSA	Rushine De Reuck (vice-captain)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	FW	ZAM	Clatous Chama
26	DF	TAN	Nathaniel Chilambo
28	GK	TAN	Hussein Abel
29	FW	SEN	Libasse Gueye
31	DF	TAN	Wilson Nangu
34	FW	COD	Elie Mpanzu
36	DF	TAN	Ladaki Chasambi
37	MF	TAN	Hussein Semfuko
39	GK	NIG	Djibrilla Kassali
-	MF	RSA	Keletso Makgalwa
-	MF	NGR	Ibraheem Jabaar
-	MF	TAN	Kelvin Nashon