Of late, URA FC are a club built on patience and quiet ambition, that is why their current situation feels so unsettling.
Not long ago, the Tax Collectors were spoken of as potential top four contenders. Today, they are nervously looking over their shoulders, hovering just above the relegation zone, a position few could have imagined.
The Tax Collectors are currently in 12th position with 13 points, a point above 14th placed Mbarara City side who are in the drop zone.
The 2025/26 season began with cautious belief. Alex Isabirye’s return on the 20th May 2024 was seen as a safe pair of hands, a coach who understood the club’s culture and had previously delivered consistency and continental football.
With the signing, hope was clear, steady progress, a push up the table and maybe even a long awaited league title which mostly unlikely.
Instead, everything has unraveled. After 15 matches, URA have won just two games, both at home and lost six.
For a four-time league champion, the numbers alone are alarming. Even more troubling is how they have arrived there, a blunt attack, fading confidence and a team struggling to believe in itself.
Isabirye was relieved of his duties on November 25, 2025 and replaced by Hussein Mbalangu in an attempt to stop the slide.
The change, however, has brought no immediate lift. If anything, URA’s problems have deepened.
They now hold an unwanted league record, seven consecutive Uganda Premier League matches without scoring. That is 630 minutes of football without a goal, the longest active drought in the division.
The last time URA found the net was in dramatic fashion. Kabon Living’s 90th-minute goal in a chaotic 7–3 win over Buhimba United Saints briefly offered hope. Since then, the goals have vanished;
• URA FC 0–0 Police
• Calvary 0–0 URA FC
• URA FC 0–3 Vipers
• URA FC 0–1 Entebbe UPPC
• Mbarara City 1–0 URA FC
• SC Villa 3–0 URA FC
• URA FC 0–1 Kitara FC
Seven matches. No goals. Growing pressure.
For now, URA are not just failing to score, they are struggling to create despite having players like Ibrahim Wamannah, Godfrey Ssekibengo and Nicholas Kabonge.
The midfield lacks invention, leading to the forwards, Living Kabon, Labiita and Fred Amaku being isolated and defensive errors that were once rare are now costly.
Off the pitch, difficult questions are being asked. by the few fans the club has got. Was the squad refreshed enough? Did frequent changes on the bench disrupt continuity? Has confidence dropped so low that even simple decisions feel complicated?
URA have never been a club that panics. Their identity is built on careful rebuilding and long term thinking, an institutional Club sense of understanding, one that at times thinks more of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
But this is a moment that demands urgency. History shows that teams who hover too long near the bottom often fall through the trapdoor.
How far can URA FC sink? The answer depends on whether they can rediscover the basics that once defined them belief, structure and above all, goals.
Until the net ripples again, every match will feel like a missed opportunity to score and every goalless minute will deepen a crisis that has already reshaped their season.
