Wider Lens
Features, desk notes, and crossover stories that expand the Sports Light tone beyond breaking football.
Wednesday, September 30 Simba Queens 3-0 Yanga Princess ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ugandan Zainah Nandede and Ruth Aturo helped Simba Queens beat 10-player rivals Yanga ..read more
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
On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, the Uganda national football team, the Uganda Cranes, hosted their first international match at Hoima City Stadium ..read more
Wednesday, September 30 Yanga Princess vs Simba Queens — 6:00 PM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Yanga Princess will face Simba Queens in the women’s Kariakoo ..read more
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
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
The Uganda Cranes received tremendous support from Ugandan football fans on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, as the national team played its first ..read more
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) confirmed nine new faces in the Uganda Cranes squad set to face Libya on Tuesday ..read more
The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) is set to appoint Asefa Firew Haile Gabreal as Sheryl Botes’ successor as head coach ..read more
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