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Talanta breaks East Africa’s multipurpose stadium tradition
Kenya’s new Talanta Sports City is taking a different approach to stadium construction in a region where many of the biggest football venues have traditionally doubled as athletics arenas. The 60,000-seat stadium…
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Mariga calls for constitutional order as Kenyan football crisis deepens
Football Kenya Federation vice-president McDonald Mariga has called for constitutional order and dialogue as uncertainty over the start of Kenya’s 2026/27 Premier League season deepens amid court intervention and disagreements over competition…
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FUFA faces opening-day crisis as UPL clubs risk forfeitures over youth rule
Several Uganda Premier League clubs could face questions over their opening-day team selections after match reports suggested widespread non-compliance with FUFA’s new requirement to keep at least two eligible youth players on…
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FUFA expands UPL squads and raises foreign-player allowance
Uganda Premier League clubs will be allowed to name up to 26 players on match day and include as many as six foreign players under FUFA’s revised competition rules for 2026. The…
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FUFA scraps twin licences as new rules reshape youth player pathway
FUFA has abolished twin licensing in Uganda’s men’s professional leagues, ending a system that allowed young players to represent two clubs and replacing it with a combination of compulsory youth participation and…
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FUFA raises coaching bar but suspension clause draws scrutiny
Uganda Premier League clubs face tougher technical requirements this season after FUFA extended the minimum CAF A qualification from head coaches to assistants, while a wider licensing framework gives the federation powers…
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FUFA appeal pathway leads to inactive arbitration mechanism
Ugandan football clubs, players and officials seeking to challenge eligible decisions beyond FUFA could face uncertainty over where to take their cases after the federation aligned its dispute-resolution system with a national…
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Uganda draw Kenya, Burundi in CECAFA U20 AFCON qualifiers
Uganda will have to negotiate regional rivals Kenya and Burundi in their bid to return to the Africa Cup of Nations U20 finals after the Hippos were drawn in Group B of…
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Documents trace UPL’s yearlong push for direct government funding
Government’s decision to fund Uganda Premier League clubs directly follows more than a year of lobbying by the league leadership for public financing to reach clubs rather than remain concentrated at federation…
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AFCON 2027: Uganda races to complete Kadiba and Namboole upgrades
Uganda has handed one of its key Africa Cup of Nations 2027 training facilities to the Uganda People’s Defence Force Engineers Brigade for a KSh180 million redevelopment, as the country races to…