Kyadondo Rugby Grounds would be the centre of Uganda’s 7s rugby motion this weekend when the Kyadondo 7s returns with a recent look, new companions and a brand new match jersey.
The 2 day occasion, hosted by Platinum Credit score Heathens RFC, will run from August 22-23 below the theme #LegacyLivesHere, bringing collectively Uganda’s prime males’s and ladies’s 7s groups.
The match was launched yesterday with AS Sports activities Africa unveiled because the official equipment accomplice and MTN MoMo because the official group accomplice.
The brand new partnership with AS Sports activities Africa will see the match introduce a brand new 7s jersey, obtainable in each Participant and Fan editions. Kyadondo 7s shirts are additionally on sale on the Kyadondo Rugby Grounds Merchandise Store and thru the MTN MoMo Market.
For Native Organising Committee chairman Daniel Rweyora, the match is about placing each males’s and ladies’s rugby on the identical stage.
“Kyadondo 7s brings males’s and ladies’s rugby collectively for one massive weekend. Two days of quick, bodily rugby and actual competitors. This match exhibits what Ugandan rugby might be when it’s achieved proper,” Rweyora stated.
Heathens chairman Want Derekford Mugumisa believes the brand new partnerships will assist the match develop whereas preserving Kyadondo’s rugby identification.
“Legacy lives at Kyadondo, and it grows with the best companions,” Mugumisa stated.
He welcomed MTN MoMo and AS Sports activities Africa to the Heathens household, saying MTN MoMo will make it simpler for followers to purchase tickets and transact on the floor, whereas AS Sports activities Africa will give the match a contemporary look.
Mugumisa additionally thanked Platinum Credit score, Zora Packaged Ingesting Water and Kyadondo Rugby Soccer Membership for his or her help.
Kyadondo is the third cease on this 12 months’s Uganda Rugby 7s circuit, following the Stone Metropolis 7s and Rujumba 7s.
Walukuba Barbarians and Nile Rapids received the Stone Metropolis 7s, whereas Pirates and Nile Rapids took the honours at Rujumba.
The venue has a robust historical past with the collection. Kyadondo hosted the opening leg of the 2025 Nile Particular Uganda Rugby 7s Sequence, the Kabaka Coronation 7s, earlier than internet hosting the Buffaloes 7s finale later within the season.
This weekend, consideration returns to Kyadondo as groups battle for an additional set of circuit factors.
Gates open at 7am on Saturday, with the primary kick-off at 8am.
Tickets value Shs10,000 for many who pay earlier than Friday and Shs20,000 on the gate.
The Kyadondo 7s would be the third cease on the Uganda Rugby 7s circuit, following the Jinja 7s, received by Walukuba Barbarians and Nile Rapids, and the Rujumba 7s, the place Pirates and Nile Rapids emerged winners.
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