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David GOMBE Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC have confirmed the departure of Liberian Winger Robin Hney. The Liberian joined the Venoms on a three year employment contract at the start of the 2025/26 season. He signed for the eight time Ugandan champions from Albanian side Apolonia Fier. Hney is a graduate of Cece United Football Academy and also previously featured for Pepper FC and FC Fassell in Liberia. He becomes the eighth player to leave Vipers this transfer window joining defenders Nicholas Wadada, Livingstone Mulondo, Grant Mastiko, goalkeepers Bashir Ssekagya and Alfred Mudekereza, midfielders Frank Katongole and Taddeo Lwanga.…

David GOMBE SC Villa have confirmed they will retire the No. 15 shirt in honour of captain David Owori, who died on Wednesday afternoon after being attacked by thugs on near his home in Makindye. https://x.com/scvillajogoo/status/2085350057507734012?s=46 Owori wore the No. 15 for the duration of his time at the record Uganda Premier League champions. The Villa skipper was attacked by a group of thugs who hit him with paving stones on Tuesday night before robbing of his belongings and fleeing, leaving him helpless. He was rushed at St. Albert Cook clinic and before the club transferred him to Case Hospital,…

David GOMBE The Government of Uganda, together with the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA), Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), United Nations Global Pulse (UN Global Pulse), and other strategic partners today officially launched the Sports for National Development (SND) Consortium. The SND is a multi-stakeholder platform established to maximize the socio-economic opportunities presented by Uganda’s co-hosting of the 2027 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The launch was held at Mestil Hotel in Kampala, and it brought together the AFCON – CHAN Local…

David GOMBE Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC will face Mauritania’s FC Nouadhibou in the CAF Champions League Preliminary round. The Venoms learnt their path at the draw held in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday afternoon. Vipers will host the first leg between 4th to 6th September 2026 with the return fixture slated for 11th to 13th of the same month in Mauritania. The aggregate winner between Vipers and FC Nouadhibou and will face the winner between Libya’s Swehly FC or Zanzibar’s KVZ SC in the next round. FC Nouadhibou is a Mauritanian professional football club based in the commercial centre…

Sinan Rajub SENOGA South Sudan national team left back Rashid Okocha has joined new league entrants Blacks Power FC, Swift Sports understands. Okocha returns to the Uganda Premier League after one season in South Sudan with Jamus FC. Okocha last played in the Uganda Premier League with NEC FC during the 2024/25 season. He is expected to add experience to the Blacks Power team that will be under the tutelage of coach Simon Peter Mugerwa. The club appointed Mugerwa as a replacement of Michael Skillz Lukyamuzi who is ineligible to coach in the UPL without a CAF A Coaching License.…

David GOMBE Uganda’s CAF Confederation Cup representative Kitara FC have been drawn against Somalia’s Mogadishu City Club in the preliminary round of the 2026/27 season. The preliminary round draw was held on Thursday afternoon in Cairo. According to CAF, Mogadishu City Club will host the first leg will be played between 4th to 6th September 2026 with the second leg scheduled for between 11th to 13th of the same month in Hoima. The aggregate winner after two legs will lock horns with Egypt’s Al Ahly Sports Club in the first round. Mogadishu City Club is a professional football club based…

David GOMBE The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has announced a massive 112-day, UGX 11.5 billion investment plan starting 24th August 2026 to prepare all Uganda’s national teams for a packed international calendar. From the senior men’s team, Uganda Cranes to the Crested Cranes, and from the Hippos to the Cubs and Rhinos, FUFA is running 7 parallel camps across Africa, Asia, and at home. The 112-Day Roadmap Uganda Hippos will head to Tanzania from 24 August for AFCON U20 Qualifiers while Uganda Cubs will be in Rwanda in September for AFCON U17 Qualifiers, then fly to Qatar in…

David GOMBE Watoto Church Uganda has today brought together partners, sponsors, golfers and members of the media for a press briefing at Uganda Golf Club, Kitante, as the 3rd Edition of the Watoto Golf Tournament 2026 gets underway. Held under the theme “Hope on the Green,” the tournament brings together corporate leaders, golfers, development partners and communities around a shared goal of restoring dignity and creating better opportunities for vulnerable mothers and their children. The tournament aims to raise UGX 450 million to support 1,000 vulnerable mothers with business starter packs and other empowerment support. A contribution of UGX 450,000…

David GOMBE Uganda’s Charity Cherop has won gold in women’s 5000 meters at the ongoing U20 World Athletic Champion in Oregon, USA. The 17-year-old stormed to victory in 15:03.88, beating a strong field that included Ethiopia’s Shito Gumi and Kenya’s Joyline Chepkemoi who took silver and bronze. She becomes only the 5th Ugandan ever to win gold at the U20 World Championships and she is just the 2nd Ugandan woman to win gold at this level. And she is the first Ugandan woman to do it in 25 years since steeplechase legend Dorcus Inzikuru won in Santiago, Chile back in…

David GOMBE Uganda’s James Bogere was the star of the night as Denmark side Aarhus Gymanstikforening won 2-1 against Sabah FK of Azerbaijan in the first leg of the third UEFA Champions League qualifying round. Bogere struck a brace to give the Danish side a first leg advantage at the Cepheus Park on Wednesday. He gave the home side the lead in the 31st minute when he fired the ball into the roof of the net to send the fans to a bouncing frenzy. Bogere doubled Aarhus’ lead in the 63rd minute before Veljko Simic pulled one back for the…