The 2022–23 Tanzanian Premier League (known as the NBC Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 58th season of the Tanzanian Premier League, the top-tier football league in Tanzania (mainland only), since its establishment in 1965. The season started on 27 September 2021. The season ended with Young Africans S.C. clinching their 29th premier league title, losing only two games in the entire season. This was the team's second consecutive championship win. Congolese striker Fiston Kalala Mayele (Yanga S.C.) along with Burundian striker Saidi Ntibazonkiza (Simba S.C.) were the top scorers of the season.
League table
Results Each team plays each other twice (30 matches each), once at home and once away.
Tanzanian Premier League play-off The 13th and 14th-placed teams (Kinondoni MC and Mbeya City) qualified for the Tanzanian Premier League play-off, alongside the 3rd and 4th-placed teams from the 2022–23 Tanzanian Championship League (Pamba and Mashujaa). The Championship teams faced each other over two legs; the Premier League teams then also faced each other over two legs, with the winners remaining in the Tanzanian Premier League and the losers competing against the Championship play-off winners for the final place in the following season's Tanzanian Premier League.
Quarter-finals First leg
Second leg
Semi-finals First leg
Second leg
Final First leg
Second leg
Statistics Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoal1 Fiston Mayele Yanga17 Saidi NtibazonkizaSimba3 Prince DubeAzam124 John BoccoSimba10 Bruno GomesSingida Moses PhiriSimba7 Stephane Aziz KiYanga9 Jeremiah JumaTanzania Prisons Collins OpareDodoma Jiji Sixtus SabiloMbeya City Pape SakhoSimba
Top clean sheets RankGoalkeeperTeamClean sheets 1 Djigui DiarraYanga142 Aishi ManulaSimba123 Ali AhamadaAzam 84 Metacha MnataYanga75 Selemani BakariIhefu6 Said KipaoKagera Sugar Mahamoud MroiviliCoastal Union
Multiple hat-tricks PlayerForAgainstScoreDate John BoccoSimbaRuvu Shooting0-412 November 2022 Fiston MayeleYangaSingida4-117 November 2022 John BoccoSimbaTanzania Prisons7-130 December 2022 Saidi Ntibazonkiza Ibrahim AliNamungo KMC1-324 January 2023 Jean BalekeSimbaMtibwa0-311 March 2023 Stephane Aziz KiYangaKagera Sugar5-011 April 2023 Saidi Ntibazonkiza 5SimbaPolisi6-16 June 2023 Prince Dube4AzamPolisi8-09 June 2023 4 Player scored 4 goals 5 Player scored 5 goals
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