Shirikisho la Mpira wa Kikapu Zanzibar
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National teams

Four senior and youth windows, plus 3×3. Selection is earned in the league and the academies. It is never invoiced.

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The teams

Senior men

The Cloves. Full-court discipline, late-clock care, and a captain who still plays ZNBL minutes. Draft cycle plan on the men’s page.

Senior women

Malkia wa Visiwa. Equal camp nights, equal medical cover, and a public target that the women’s budget is not what is left over.

Youth

U18 and U16, boys and girls. Named each April from academies and the schools shield. Exams outrank camps.

3x3

Four-player pools built for short courts, ferry towns and the FIBA 3×3 rulebook. The island series is the trial.

Selection principles

  • Form in ZNBL or the academy, not a private trial in someone’s compound
  • At least two Pemba players in every youth camp shortlist, so the ferry is planned before the list is published
  • Character: timekeeping, how they treat a referee, how they treat a teammate who has less
  • Medical clearance before a camp, not after an injury on day two
  • A published squad list and a short note on players who were close and will be seen again
  • No fee to be selected, housed, or given a jersey. Families pay nothing to represent Zanzibar.

Camp calendar — draft 2026

June, Stone Town: senior men and senior women, five days, shared gym, separate courts.

August: youth U18, with a Pemba residential weekend the week before so island players arrive prepared, not exhausted.

October: 3×3 pool camp beside the Island Series final.

December: senior review camp only if the league break allows it. If clubs are still playing, the league wins.