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VIDEO: Crested Cranes Goalkeeper Set to Miss Zambia Encounter After Kariakoo Injury
Crested Cranes goalkeeper Ruth Aturo is set to miss Uganda’s Olympic qualifiers against Zambia after suffering an injury while playing for Simba ..read more
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Uganda Cranes Beat Libya, but Hoima Victory Exposes Areas of Concern
On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, the Uganda national football team, the Uganda Cranes, hosted their first international match at Hoima City Stadium ..read more
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Komuntale Set for Kariakoo Derby in All-Ugandan Affair
Wednesday, September 30 Yanga Princess vs Simba Queens — 6:00 PM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Yanga Princess will face Simba Queens in the women’s Kariakoo ..read more
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Uganda Cranes Still Struggle to Move Forward Despite Libya Victory
The Uganda Cranes are still struggling to move forward despite picking up a 1-0 victory over Libya in their first international outing ..read more
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Uganda Cranes Edge Libya to Claim Three Points in Hoima
Tuesday, September 29 Uganda Cranes 1-0 Libya ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Anorld Vula scored in first-half stoppage time as the Uganda Cranes secured a hard-fought ..read more
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Uganda Cranes Find New Home in Hoima as Fans Turn Up in Large Numbers
The Uganda Cranes received tremendous support from Ugandan football fans on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, as the national team played its first ..read more
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Social Media War Erupts Over New Faces of Naturalisation in Uganda Cranes
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) confirmed nine new faces in the Uganda Cranes squad set to face Libya on Tuesday ..read more
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FUFA Lines Up Botes Successor
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) is set to appoint Asefa Firew Haile Gabreal as Sheryl Botes’ successor as head coach ..read more
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Crested Cranes Begin New Era Without Botes as Zambia Olympic Qualifiers Loom
The Uganda Senior Women’s Football National Team, the Crested Cranes, held their first training session without Sheryl Botes in three years on ..read more
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Vipers JT Stage Comeback to Retain FUFA Juniors League Title Unbeaten
Sunday, September 27 Vipers JT 3-2 URA JT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vipers Junior Team staged a remarkable comeback to defeat URA Junior Team 3-2 ..read more