Pepsi College Soccer league draw held with new entrants and new format

David GOMBE

The 2026/27 Pepsi College Soccer League may have three new entrants Metropolitan Worldwide College, Seeta College and World Mission Frontiers College.

This implies the 2026/27 season may have 31 establishments underneath a regionalised group format.

The 31 groups have been drawn into three teams within the draw of the 14th version carried out on Thursday, October 15, at Kati Kati Restaurant in Lugogo, Kampala.

Within the newly launched format, every college will play six matches, together with three dwelling fixtures. The highest two groups in every group will qualify routinely for the quarter-finals, alongside the 2 best-performing groups exterior the automated qualification locations.

The group stage is scheduled to start out on Tuesday twentieth October and conclude on April 4, 2027, with the second spherical anticipated to start on February 2. The season is predicted to climax on Might eighth, 2027.

In the meantime, every college may have a most of two gamers who’ve featured within the Masaza Cup, a measure anticipated to affect recruitment and squad choice forward of the brand new marketing campaign.

Muteesa I Royal College enter the season as defending champions after successful their maiden UFL title within the 2025/26 marketing campaign. They defeated YMCA Complete Institute 1-0 within the closing on Might 2, 2026, at Nakivubo Stadium, due to Sam Mutambo’s sole purpose.

2026/27 UFL Teams

Group A — Japanese Area

Uganda Martyrs College, Busitema College, Islamic College in Uganda (IUIU), World Mission Frontiers College, Soroti College, Kumi College, King Ceasor College, Makerere College Enterprise Faculty (MUBS), Metropolitan Worldwide College, Uganda Christian College (UCU).

Group B — Western Area

Muteesa I Royal College, Bishop Stuart College, Mountains of the Moon College, Kabale College, St. Lawrence College, Nkumba College, Makerere College, Kampala Worldwide College (KIU), ISBAT College, Bugema College, Worldwide College of East Africa (IUEA).

Group C — Northern Area

Lira College, Muni College, Gulu College, YMCA Complete Institute, Kampala College (KU), Kyambogo College, College of Kisubi (UNIK), Seeta College, Ndejje College, Africa Renewal College.

Earlier UFL Winners:

– 2012: Makerere College
– 2013: Kampala College
– 2014: Makerere College Enterprise Faculty (MUBS)
– 2015: Makerere College Enterprise Faculty (MUBS)
– 2016: Kampala College
– 2017: Uganda Martyrs College, Nkozi
– 2018: Kyambogo College
– 2019: Uganda Christian College (UCU)
– 2020–2021: Competitors not held attributable to COVID-19 pandemic
– 2022: Uganda Martyrs College, Nkozi
– 2023: Nkumba College
– 2024/25: Uganda Martyrs College, Nkozi
– 2025/26: Muteesa I Royal College