The Federation of Uganda Soccer Associations (FUFA) has introduced sweeping reforms to the Uganda Premier League that can come into impact within the 2025/26 season. The brand new construction replaces the standard straight league format with a three-round system designed to maintain the competitors intense from begin to end.
Beforehand, the Uganda Premier League was performed in a easy double round-robin format the place 16 groups met one another dwelling and away, with the champion determined by the best factors tally and the underside three sides routinely relegated. That system, which had been in place for a number of years, will now be retired in favour of a extra segmented and aggressive construction.
Beneath the brand new plan, the season will start with all 16 groups enjoying one another as soon as. On the finish of this primary spherical, the desk might be cut up into two teams of eight. The highest half will enter Group One whereas the underside half will transfer into Group Two. These teams will then contest full home-and-away fixtures within the second spherical. From Group One, one of the best six groups will advance to a closing stage to battle for the championship, whereas the remaining two will settle in seventh and eighth place. In Group Two, the main pair will finish their season in ninth and tenth place, whereas the opposite six groups will proceed to a relegation stage.
The third spherical will characteristic two decisive teams. Group Three, made up of the six prime contenders, will play a one-leg format to determine the champion and positions as much as sixth place.
Group 4, made up of the six groups combating relegation, will even play one-leg fixtures to find out who survives. The underside of the desk might be reshaped with groups in eleventh to thirteenth retaining their league standing, the 14th-placed facet contesting a playoff with the FUFA Huge League’s third-placed crew, and people ending fifteenth and sixteenth dropping straight into the second division ( FUFA Huge League)
The reforms additionally stretch past the league format. Golf equipment will now be required to register solely gamers with at the least two years remaining on their contracts, apart from these turning 31 in the course of the season.
The usage of Catapult monitoring expertise has been made obligatory, and groups should submit each efficiency and enterprise knowledge inside 48 hours of every match.
As well as, the federation has dedicated UGX 500 million in prize cash for the season, with the eventual champions anticipated to pocket as much as UGX 100 million throughout the three rounds. Income sharing has additionally been streamlined to make sure transparency and equity amongst golf equipment.
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