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David GOMBE

Eight time Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC are set to take part within the 2026 CECAFA Kagame Cup.

The Venoms confirmed that can be a part of this 12 months’s area membership soccer competitors

“Vipers Sports activities Membership hereby formally confirms its participation within the event. We thank CECAFA for the invitation and the help prolonged to the membership, and we stay up for participating within the competitors,” Simon Peter Njuba, chief govt officer of Vipers SC confirmed the event as quoted by Xinhua

This 12 months’s event is scheduled to happen in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, from July 18th to August. 9.

Yusuf Mossi, CECAFA’s competitions supervisor, stated the event serves as an necessary preparatory platform for golf equipment forward of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup.

“We have now organized this competitors up to now years and it has significantly helped groups put together nicely. Final 12 months we had Sudan’s Al Hilal attain the quarter-final stage of the CAF Champions League after additionally they completed third within the CECAFA Kagame Cup held in Tanzania,” defined Mossi.

East Africa’s prime sides comparable to APR FC, Rayon Sports activities of Rwanda, Gor Mahia of Kenya, Younger Africans SC and Simba SC of Tanzania, El Merriekh SC Bentiu of South Sudan, and Sudanese giants Al Hilal SC and El Merriekh SC are anticipated to participate within the competitors.

Tanzania Premier League facet Singida Black Stars FC gained the championship final 12 months after overcoming Rwanda’s APR FC within the ultimate.