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Stumai Athumani

Tanzanian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ111080480 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stumai Abdallah Athumani (born 25 August 1997) is a Tanzanian military officer and professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for JKT Queens and the Tanzania women's national team.

International career

In 2018, Athumani was called up to the Tanzania women's national team. She scored one goal in their run to winning the 2018 CECAFA Women's Championship by scoring third goal in the goal in eventual 4–1 victory over Ethiopia.

Athumani was selected for Tanzania's final 21-person squad for the 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship. She would go on to start in all five of Tanzania's games and play every minute.

On 4 October, in the final group stage game against fellow guest team South Sudan, Athumani scored a hat-trick which led to 3–0 win and qualification to the semi-final. In the semi-final she played the full 90 minutes as Tanzania won via 3–2 penalty shootout after the match ended in a 1–1 draw. On 15 July, she was named as a starter, as Tanzania beat Malawi 1–0 in the final to win the competition for the first time in history.

Editorial summary

“Stumai Athumani” enters the record as tanzanian footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stumai, Athumani and Tanzanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2018, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-08-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stumai, Athumani and Tanzanian.
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Why this record matters

“Stumai Athumani” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stumai, Athumani and Tanzanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111080480. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2018 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stumai Athumani” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.