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David GOMBE
The FUFA Authorities Committee has authorised amendments to the Males’s Membership Licensing Guidelines governing all golf tools collaborating ahead of the Uganda Premier League (UPL) 2026/2027 season.
Based mostly on FUFA, the amendments cowl 5 areas resembling Financial, Licensed, Infrastructure, Sporting, Administration and Personnel Requirements.
FUFA has moreover employed an neutral expert consultants’ company commencing with the 2026/2027 season to guage ALL submissions made by the applicant golf tools, study the facilities and submit a report for the membership licensing committee to interpret and apply the prevailing Membership Licensing Guidelines for a remaining decision.
Beneath are the additional compulsory provisions for the 2026/2027 Membership Licensing:
1. Price of Players and Coaches
1.All golf tools shall submit a correct Letter of Guarantee, duly signed by the Membership Proprietor(s), which provides a binding licensed dedication to verify the nicely timed and full charge of all players and coaches, as stipulated of their respective contracts, by the tip of the season.
2. Failure to regulate to this guarantee or the invention of any overdue payables by the tip of the season will finish outcome throughout the Membership Proprietor(s) not being eligible to non-public a membership going forward.
3. With affect from 1st July 2026, all funds for sign-on expenses and salaries for players and coaches SHALL ONLY be made by monetary establishment swap from the official membership checking account to the beneficiary checking account.
4. Golf tools shall be required to submit verified Proof of Price for all players and coaches by the subsequent dates:
thirtieth September
thirty first December
thirty first March
thirtieth June
5. Golf tools that will have defaulted with the submission of proof of charge or the invention of any overdue payables by the beginning of a swap window shall not be allowed to register new players in that swap window.
2. Technical Director
Environment friendly 1st January 2027, all UPL Golf tools ought to appoint a full-time Technical Director in compliance with the Membership Licensing Guidelines. The Technical Director shall be chargeable for overseeing the membership’s common technical enchancment.
3. Coaches
Every the Head and Assistant Coaches of each membership SHALL keep in any case a CAF A Instructing Diploma. A grace interval shall be equipped for CAF B Assistant Coaches whose current FUFA-registered employment contracts are nonetheless legit
4. Safety and Security Officer
Each membership ought to appoint an expert Safety and Security Officer. This officer might want to have a FUFA Safety and Security certification and shall be chargeable for overseeing all points related to Safety and security administration on the membership’s dwelling flooring.
5. Ladies’s Crew
1. Pursuant to Spherical No. 1177 and a follow-up letter dated twenty ninth July 2025, environment friendly 2026/2027 Season, every Uganda Premier League (UPL) membership is required to operate a Ladies’s Soccer workers.
2. The Ladies’s Crew operated by the UPL Membership shall:
Compete throughout the 2026/7 FUFA Ladies’s Super League or the 2026/7 FUFA Ladies’s Elite League for the golf tools that carried out throughout the UPL for the 2025/6 Season
Compete in any case throughout the FUFA Ladies’s Regional League for the Golf tools promoted to the UPL for the 2026/7 Season
Each be owned as a very structured women’s workers under the membership’s private badge and financing, or as a partnership with an present Ladies’s Soccer Membership
Host their FUFA Competitions dwelling matches on the same venue as their respective UPL Golf tools. For the avoidance of doubt, every Ladies’s Teams owned by UPL Golf tools and folks in partnerships shall host their FUFA Competitions dwelling matches on the same venue as their respective UPL Golf tools.
3. For the 2028/2029 Season:
FUFA shall arrange the Uganda Ladies’s Premier League (UWPL), composed solely of women’s teams owned by UPL Golf tools.
Subject to completely different associated legal guidelines, ONLY Golf tools that private a Ladies’s Crew for the 2026/7 Season, as a very structured women’s workers under the membership’s private badge and financing, shall signify Uganda in CAF Membership Competitions.
6. FUFA G2 Academy
All UPL golf tools shall private and performance a FUFA-licensed G2 Academy to verify professionalized experience identification and sustainable Elite participant enchancment on the membership diploma.
7. Official Membership Space E-mail Take care of
All golf tools shall possess and actively operate an official membership space e-mail cope with (e.g.,knowledge@clubname.ug or secretary@clubname.com).
8. Verified Social Media Accounts
All UPL golf tools shall possess and actively operate verified social media accounts on X and TikTok.
9. Membership Official Colours
All UPL Golf tools shall submit the official foremost, secondary and tertiary colours with the respective RGB Colour Numbers of the membership initially of the Membership Licensing Window.
10. Financial Statements
1. Environment friendly 1st July 2026, each membership SHALL be required to file all financial transactions related to the membership’s income and expenditure to permit FUFA to conduct an audit consider of the Financial Statements for the 2026/2027 financial interval. It’ll current an actual and truthful view of the membership’s financial place.
2. A membership shall be denied a license for the 2027/2028 season if it fails to file all financial transactions for the 2026/27 interval, thereby making it inconceivable for FUFA to conduct a obligatory audit or consider of its financial statements.
FUFA stays devoted to working collaboratively with all UPL golf tools to spice up necessities all through the board and to help golf tools in meeting their licensing obligations.
