David GOMBE

KCCA FC has formally acquired a 30% stake in Kampala Queens FC in a landmark deal that’s set to reshape ladies’s soccer in Uganda.

In a press release launched on Tuesday, the Lugogo-based membership confirmed the acquisition is for an preliminary interval of 1 yr, with a gradual acquisition of extra stake anticipated over the approaching years.

Underneath the renewed settlement, Kampala Queens might be formally rebranded as KCCA Girls FC (KCCA WFC). The squad will undertake KCCA FC’s full model identification, together with official membership colors and visible components.

The 2 groups KCCA FC and KCCA WFC (previously Kampala Queens FC) will now function because the official males’s and ladies’s soccer groups beneath the KCCA Soccer Membership model.

Whereas totally built-in beneath the KCCA FC banner, the ladies’s staff will retain its iconic nickname, The Kampala Queens, which has turn out to be synonymous with the membership and its profitable journey over time.

KCCA FC says it would make investments its structural, industrial and technical sources in KCCA Girls FC as a part of a shared ambition to construct a stronger soccer establishment.

> “This partnership unites a shared ambition to construct a stronger soccer establishment, develop ladies’s soccer, and obtain better success on and off the pitch,” the membership stated.

The transfer makes KCCA the most recent Uganda Premier League facet to formally personal a ladies’s staff, becoming a member of rivals Vipers SC and BUL FC, and is seen as a significant enhance for the FUFA Girls Tremendous League.

Kampala Queens are two-time FUFA Girls Tremendous League champions and some of the dominant sides within the nation. The partnership with one among Uganda’s greatest manufacturers is predicted to raise their industrial enchantment and technical setup forward of the brand new season.