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David GOMBE

The FUFA Govt Committee has accepted amendments to the Males’s Membership Licensing Rules governing all golf equipment taking part forward of the Uganda Premier League (UPL) 2026/2027 season.

In line with FUFA, the amendments cowl 5 areas similar to Monetary, Authorized, Infrastructure, Sporting, Administration and Personnel Standards.

FUFA has additionally employed an unbiased skilled consultants’ agency commencing with the 2026/2027 season to guage ALL submissions made by the applicant golf equipment, examine the amenities and submit a report for the membership licensing committee to interpret and apply the prevailing Membership Licensing Rules for a remaining determination.

Under are the extra necessary provisions for the 2026/2027 Membership Licensing:

1. Cost of Gamers and Coaches

1.All golf equipment shall submit a proper Letter of Assure, duly signed by the Membership Proprietor(s), which offers a binding authorized dedication to make sure the well timed and full cost of all gamers and coaches, as stipulated of their respective contracts, by the top of the season.

2. Failure to adjust to this assure or the invention of any overdue payables by the top of the season will end result within the Membership Proprietor(s) not being eligible to personal a membership going ahead.

3. With impact from 1st July 2026, all funds for sign-on charges and salaries for gamers and coaches SHALL ONLY be made by financial institution switch from the official membership checking account to the beneficiary checking account.

4. Golf equipment shall be required to submit verified Proof of Cost for all gamers and coaches by the next dates:

thirtieth September
thirty first December
thirty first March
thirtieth June
5. Golf equipment that may have defaulted with the submission of proof of cost or the invention of any overdue payables by the start of a switch window shall not be allowed to register new gamers in that switch window.

2. Technical Director

Efficient 1st January 2027, all UPL Golf equipment should appoint a full-time Technical Director in compliance with the Membership Licensing Rules. The Technical Director shall be accountable for overseeing the membership’s total technical improvement.

3. Coaches

Each the Head and Assistant Coaches of every membership SHALL maintain no less than a CAF A Teaching Diploma. A grace interval shall be offered for CAF B Assistant Coaches whose present FUFA-registered employment contracts are nonetheless legitimate

4. Security and Safety Officer

Every membership should appoint a professional Security and Safety Officer. This officer will need to have a FUFA Security and Safety certification and shall be accountable for overseeing all issues associated to Security and safety administration on the membership’s residence floor.

5. Girls’s Workforce

1. Pursuant to Round No. 1177 and a follow-up letter dated twenty ninth July 2025, efficient 2026/2027 Season, each Uganda Premier League (UPL) membership is required to function a Girls’s Soccer workforce.

2. The Girls’s Workforce operated by the UPL Membership shall:

Compete within the 2026/7 FUFA Girls’s Tremendous League or the 2026/7 FUFA Girls’s Elite League for the golf equipment that performed within the UPL for the 2025/6 Season
Compete no less than within the FUFA Girls’s Regional League for the Golf equipment promoted to the UPL for the 2026/7 Season
Both be owned as a completely structured ladies’s workforce underneath the membership’s personal badge and financing, or as a partnership with an present Girls’s Soccer Membership
Host their FUFA Competitions residence matches on the identical venue as their respective UPL Golf equipment. For the avoidance of doubt, each Girls’s Groups owned by UPL Golf equipment and people in partnerships shall host their FUFA Competitions residence matches on the identical venue as their respective UPL Golf equipment.
3. For the 2028/2029 Season:

FUFA shall set up the Uganda Girls’s Premier League (UWPL), composed solely of girls’s groups owned by UPL Golf equipment.
Topic to different related laws, ONLY Golf equipment that personal a Girls’s Workforce for the 2026/7 Season, as a completely structured ladies’s workforce underneath the membership’s personal badge and financing, shall characterize Uganda in CAF Membership Competitions.

6. FUFA G2 Academy

All UPL golf equipment shall personal and function a FUFA-licensed G2 Academy to make sure professionalized expertise identification and sustainable Elite participant improvement on the membership stage.

7. Official Membership Area E-mail Handle

All golf equipment shall possess and actively function an official membership area electronic mail tackle (e.g.,data@clubname.ug or secretary@clubname.com).

8. Verified Social Media Accounts

All UPL golf equipment shall possess and actively function verified social media accounts on X and TikTok.

9. Membership Official Colors

All UPL Golf equipment shall submit the official major, secondary and tertiary colors with the respective RGB Color Numbers of the membership in the beginning of the Membership Licensing Window.

10. Monetary Statements

1. Efficient 1st July 2026, every membership SHALL be required to report all monetary transactions associated to the membership’s earnings and expenditure to allow FUFA to conduct an audit evaluation of the Monetary Statements for the 2026/2027 monetary interval. This may present a real and honest view of the membership’s monetary place.

2. A membership shall be denied a license for the 2027/2028 season if it fails to report all monetary transactions for the 2026/27 interval, thereby making it not possible for FUFA to conduct a compulsory audit or evaluation of its monetary statements.

FUFA stays dedicated to working collaboratively with all UPL golf equipment to lift requirements throughout the board and to assist golf equipment in assembly their licensing obligations.