FUFA and Guinness have announced a partnership worth UGX 110M towards the organization of the first ever Women in Football Bonanza. The event will be held on 29th November 2023 at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, Uganda.
The Women in Football Bonanza is aimed at recognizing the efforts put in by FUFA to develop women’s football in Uganda over the past ten years.
Women’s Football in Uganda at a glance
FUFA set out a deliberate strategy to take women football to another level by creating a pool of players in the formed FUFA Women Elite League back in 2015.
FUFA also organized capacity building courses designed at promoting women to take up roles in the game.
This has created more space for women to get involved heavily in the game in different capacities like; marketing, administration, communications, coaching, trainers and instructors.
“It is from such a background that FUFA has partnered with them to pay attention to women attacking and making a mark in a male dominated sport like football, where they could otherwise be vulnerable,” noted FUFA 3rd Vice president Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi during the launch of the partnership.
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According to UBL’s Head of Beer Matilda Babuleka, UBL is injecting “Shs110m in cash and kind for five years” to spearhead this annual celebration.
This year’s celebration will feature a symposium to showcase initiatives that can support the welfare of women in football.
“We are grateful to FUFA for trying to ensure that all top men’s sides have a women’s side too. We know that the FUFA Women Super and Elite Leagues have at least 10 teams each and the national teams are very active.”
“These are significant strides that we are happy to be part of,” Matilda Babuleka noted.
The FUFA Deputy CEO-Football Decolas Kiiza, FUFA Lawyer Denis Lukambi, Chairperson of Uganda Women Football Association (UWFA) Margaret Kubingi, and former Crested Cranes player Jean Sseninde attended the event.
FUFA’s journey since 1924 covers interesting stories about women’s football.
With ten years of mental change of women’s football in Uganda since 2013, the bonanza will aim further at bringing together all women in football to recollect and celebrate their achievements, highlights and challenges.
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