Ahead of a great planned 2015/16 football season, Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) continues to lay strategies streamlined to ensure a successful trend in terms of organization, technical and the entire football set up of competitions across all the five divisions.
On Wednesday, FUFA President Eng.Moses Magogo held yet another meeting with club owners and chairmen of the Azam Uganda Premier League at the federation headquarters in Mengo, Kampala.
The main objective of the meeting was to lay strong pillars for the best league next season and the coming years.
FUFA president, Eng Moses Magogo presided over the meeting held in board room at FUFA House;
‘We have sat down as Executive and came up with guidelines for a competition that is supposed to premium’ FUFA President opened up.
The President told clubs that the excise of registration and club licensing is about protection of its members and clubs.
Eng. Magogo hinted on the necessity and procedure of the club registration which is a FUFA project
‘Club licensing is a FIFA programme. A club is issued with a licence when the rating indicates green after meeting all the requirements. If the rating is yellow it means some requirements are missing but can be issued with a provisional licence though given a specified time to full them. The red rating shows that a club has failed on all requirements which attracts automatic relegation’
A club is issued with a certificate of registration after having a Club CEO license, a Coach with CAF B License, U-17 team, players having passports and valid contracts for each of the players.
The other area of concern was in the department of refereeing to which clubs were notified about the upcoming match ethics and integrity committee starting next season.
This will deal with issues of match interference, integrity and disciplinary matters.
It will investigate and prosecute as well in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Uganda.
The club owners and Chairmen were reminded to have coaches with valid CAF A or B licenses or their equivalent as required by the Club licensing regulations.
On the individual club management, the chairmen were advised to empower their Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s).
FUFA position.
On the position of the federation about the league status, the club chairmen and owners were reminded;
There is a running contract with three parties involved, FSL, Azam, FUFA who is a member and special shareholder in FSL. The season will progress as planned earlier with the Super cup between SC Villa (Uganda Cup winners) and Vipers (Azam Uganda Premier league winners) on the 14th August 2015 and the league kickoff on 21st August 2015
FUFA C.E.O, Edgar Watson was part of the meeting alongside the first Vice President, Justus Mugisha, 2nd Vice President Darius Mugoye, 3rd FUFA Vice President, Dennis Mbidde, FUFA Executive member Hamid Juma, Competitons Director Ali Mwebe, Federation Spokesman Ahmed Hussein and the FUFA legal officer Dennis Lukambi.
Officials who attended the Meeting:
John Bosco Tumwebaze (Maroons F.C), Julius Raymond Kabugo (KCCA F.C), Johnson Musinguzi (The Saints F.C), Bernard Bainamani (CEO, Uganda Premier League), Peter Ssenkungu (SC Villa Secretary), Eng. Ben Misagga (SC Villa), C.P Arinaitwe (Police F.C), Silver Aliasi (BUL F.C), Said Kakuku (Sadolin Paints), Joseph Katongole (Lweza F.C)
Absent with Apology: Badru Kigwe (Simba Sports Club)
MAIN PHOTO: Some of the Club owners and chairmen with the FUFA officials during the meeting on Wednesday.
PHOTO CREDITS: FUFA Communications Department
