ARS U-17 2016 Football:
Girls’ Final: Buganda Vs Eastern – 12 p.m
Boys Final: Buganda Vs Northern – 2 p.m
- At Uganda Technical College, Lira
The finals of the Airtel Rising Stars U-17 boys and girls football competition climaxes on Sunday at the Uganda Technical College in Lira.
This is after close to two months when the regional qualifiers were played in all the eight FUFA regions with the selected pool of players per region qualifying for the national grand finals which took place in Lira between 27th to 30th October 2016.
National youth coaches Hadijah Namuyanja and Peter Onen with other scouts have been on the look out to identify potential talents who will compete for slots at the Uganda U-17 team ahead of the CECAFA 2017 edition.
The tournament is proudly sponsored by the official Uganda Cranes’ sponsors – Airtel Uganda Limited for the last six years.
Preliminary Stage Results at the 2016 Grand finals played in Lira:
Boys:
Northern 3-2 Kampala
Kitara 0-4 Buganda
North East 0-1 Western
Western 0-1 West Nile
Kampala 1-3 North East
Buganda 1-0 Eastern
Western 0-0 Northern
West Nile 0-0 Kitara
North East 0-3 Northern
Western 1-2 Kitara
Kampala 1-2 Kitara
Kampala 0-0 Western
Buganda 3-0 West Nile
Semi-finals:
Northern 4-0 West Nile
Buganda 3-0 Western
Girls:
Northern 2-0 Eastern
Buganda 3-0 West Nile
Kampala 6-1 Kitara
North East 0-5 Western
Eastern 0-3 Kampala
West Nile 2-1 North East
Kitara 1-4 Northern
Western 2-1 Buganda
Kampala 7-0 Northern
North East 0-6 Buganda
Eastern 5-0 Kitara
West Nile 0-2 Western
Semi-finals:
Kampala 0 (3) – 0 (5) Buganda
Western 0 (3) – 0 (5) Eastern
