By Emmanuel Muga BBC Sport, Dar es Salaam

Simba beat eventual winners Enyimba in the 2003 African Champions League

The interim committee of the Football Association of Tanzania (Fat) has defended its decision to nominate the country's representatives for Caf club competitions.

Following the cancellation of the league by the law courts last week, Fat put forward Simba SC as their entry into next year's African Champions League and Mtibwa Sugar for the maiden Confederation Cup.

But the decision has come under fire from Yanga SC who have accused Fat's interim committee of acting unfairly by nominating their main rivals to take part in continental competitions.

"This is injustice of the highest degree," Jamal Malinzi, Yanga's general-secretary, told the BBC Sport website.

"We are asking Fat to withdraw Simba and Mtibwa names, as they should give us all equal chances."

However, the secretary-general of Fat's interim committee has defended its actions.

"Fat and the Zanzibar FA sat and decided that the mainland champion and Zanzibari champions represent the country in the Champions League and Confederation Cup respectively," said Mwina Kaduguda.

"We chose Simba because they are Tanzania's mainland champions but we chose Mtibwa Sugar FC because the Zanzibari champions Jamhuri FC admitted to us that they were not up to the challenge."

A district court in Dar es Salaam stopped the eight-team Union Super League after Yanga sought its injunction on 10 December.

The Union Super League combines four teams from mainland Tanzania and four from Zanzibar, and the tournament gets underway once the leagues in both areas have been decided.

Simba were crowned mainland champions earlier this month, while Jamhuri won the Zanzibari league that ended in October.

Yanga opposed the championship's new knock-out format, which was introduced in an attempt to finish the league before Caf's original deadline for confirming a country's participation in its various tournaments.

Yet on Thursday, the Dar es Salaam district court is due to deliver its verdict on whether Yanga were right to seek the league's suspension.