David GOMBE
Finance Trust Bank has on Thursday announced a sponsorship package with the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) at their headquarters in Kampala.
Finance Trust bank has extended its reach to women in sports in particular in football with a two billion shillings (UGX 2,000,000,000) investment in womens football in partnership with FUFA.
Speaking at the announcement of the partnership, Finance Trust Bank Managing Director, Ms. Annet Nakawunde Mulindwa said the sponsorship is in line with the bank’s mission of putting women first.
“Finance Trust Bank was first established in 1984 to support women in business and management to achieve their financial dreams. The bank has grown since then and today we have a network of over 35 branches supporting over half a million women across the country. We are excited to now extend our support to women in sports and I am pleased to formally announce Finance Trust Banks two billion shillings sponsorship of the FUFA Womens Football programme,” Ms Mulindwa said.
Under this partnership, one billion seven hundred thousand shillings (UGX 1,700,000,000) will be going directly to FUFA over a period of four years i.e. three hundred fifty million per year (350m per annum) with the rest being spent on sponsorship activation.
FUFA President, Hon. Eng. Magogo Moses welcomed the sponsorship saying it is a validation of the success of FUFAs women football programme.
“Many years ago, FUFA began to seriously invest in and promote womens football. This investment has seen Uganda grow tremendously in this area and Uganda has established itself as a women’s football powerhouse in the CECAFA region. But our ambitions dont stop there. Uganda has the talent to compete and win at both the continental and global level and we believe that with support both from the government of Uganda and from corporate sponsors like Finance Trust Bank we shall be able to do so,” Magogo said.
“Under this partnership, Finance Trust Bank is now the title sponsor of both the Finance Trust Womens Super Leaue and the Finance Trust Womens Elite League and as FUFA we are very excited about this partnership and we believe it is going to go very far hopefully all the way to the World Cup.” Magogo added.
Finance Trust Bank was established in 1984 with a mission to empower women to achieve their dreams and has over the last 40 years helped tens of thousands of women to do that.
The sponsorship package will see the league names change to Finance Trust Women’s Super League and Finance Trust Women’s Elite League respectively.
The 2024/25 season of the Finance Trust Womens Super League and Finance Trust Womens Elite League are scheduled to kick-off at the end of September 2024.
