Villa secure home

SC Villa have secured office space in Muyenya, a Kampala suburb. The premises on plot 21-31 Tank hill Road, reportedly cost SC Villa over Shs300m.

Uganda Professional League takes shape

One inevitable and time-tested concept universally is change. It’s the truest notion that if you don’t catch up with it, it catches up with you, and possibly passes you by.

URA visit Express in USL opener

It’s fitting to have two of the biggest clubs in Ugandan football to usher in new era when the Uganda Super League kicks off next month. URA’s visit to Wankulukuku to face Express is the highlight of the opening day (September 17) as clubs, under the Uganda Super League (USL) Limited, start running their affairs independently.

Villa Park pre-season trials attract 50

At least 50 players turned up on the opening day of pre season trials at SC Villa’s training ground – Villa Park on Friday. SC Villa, who finished a distant seventh in the Super League last season, are currently in a restructuring process and are using the trials to build a new team.

KCC FC has seen the light; Express next?

These are interesting times for Ugandan football. Just when all hope of a competitive domestic league had died down, a glimmer of light appeared at the end of the tunnel.

Hoping that it’s no false dawn for Villa

With Ugandan club football bearing the brunt of a slow and steady decline, an urgent remedy is needed not to only catch up with the commercialisation of the beautiful game but also set up viable structures to aid development and organisation.

Time to work hard, restore Villa’s past glory, says Muwema

Newly appointed SC Villa Chairman Board of Directors Fred Elijah Muwema has called upon the Villa fraternity to work towards restoring the past glory at the club.

Local football’s top transfers

The Ugandan transfer rumour mill no longer attracts the frenzy it commanded in years gone by. In fact, the last time the local footballing fraternity was captivated by the close season transfer window was between November 2002 and January 2003 when the likes of Dan Wagaluka (Iganga to Villa), Tony Mawejje (Masaka to KCC) and Richard Malinga (KCC to Express) made head-turning transfers. Seven years on, although there appears to be no chance of such a frenzy playing out, one or two players are causing a stir.

ROBERT MADOI: Unassuming Nestroy shows why it pays to be patient

Comparing Joseph Nestroy Kizito and Eugene Ssepuuya has always spawned a chalk and cheese scenario. Both erstwhile SC Villa and FK Vojvodina players, Nestroy and Ssepuuya presently find themselves at distinctly separate points on the professional football continuum.

Villa drop 10 players

SC Villa management have cracked the whip on alleged indisciplined players releasing 10 yesterday. The discharged players are said to have been the engines behind the recent strife at the club in which Villa failed to raise a team of 11 on two occasions and failed to honour one match.

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