The Federation of Uganda Soccer Associations (FUFA) Government Committee has suspended the implementation of the brand new format for the 2025/26 StarTimes Uganda Premier League (UPL) season.
The choice follows a sequence of consultations with key stakeholders, together with UPL golf equipment, league sponsors, and the Uganda Premier League Board.
In an announcement issued on Saturday night, FUFA confirmed that Rule 14:4-12 of the FUFA Competitors Guidelines 2025, which had launched changes to the league’s competitors construction, won’t apply this season.
In accordance with the federation, the suspension is meant to offer stakeholders extra time to totally perceive and adapt to the proposed reforms via structured sensitisation and engagement classes.
FUFA President Eng. Moses Magogo emphasised that the choice displays a deliberate and consultative strategy to reforming home soccer.
We consider in reforms that strengthen our competitions, however it’s equally vital that each one stakeholders totally perceive and purchase into the method earlier than implementation,” Magogo stated.
“The suspension shouldn’t be a reversal of progress however a deliberate step to make sure correct alignment, readability, and readiness throughout all fronts.”
The proposed format had drawn widespread criticism from each followers and golf equipment. KCCA FC publicly expressed its dissatisfaction, whereas Vipers SC, SC Villa, and NEC FC walked out of a key assembly by which 13 different golf equipment agreed to play beneath the brand new system.
Though Villa and NEC later opted to take part beneath protest, Vipers wrote to FUFA to verify its withdrawal from the season beginning with the double-header recreation in opposition to Kitara at Namboole Stadium.The Kitende-based facet stayed true to its stance, failing to point out up for his or her scheduled fixture in opposition to Kitara FC throughout a deliberate double-header at Namboole Stadium.
For now, the league will proceed beneath the earlier format, with the primary and second rounds figuring out the champion based mostly on the overall factors gathered throughout each rounds, as has been the case in previous seasons.
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