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FUFA Clears Seven Stadiums, Rejects Eight Forward of 2026/27 Season » The Touchline Sports activities – The Panorama Uganda
The Federation of Uganda Soccer Associations (FUFA) has accepted seven stadiums and rejected eight others following the completion of the stadium evaluation train carried out as a part of the membership licensing course of forward of the 2026/27 season.
The evaluation, carried out by the FUFA Membership Licensing Committee, sought to find out whether or not venues meet the minimal infrastructure, security and operational requirements required to host top-flight soccer matches in Uganda.
In response to the findings launched by FUFA, solely seven stadiums met the required benchmarks and have been cleared to host matches through the upcoming marketing campaign. These embody St. Mary’s Stadium in Kitende, Hamz Stadium-Nakivubo, Mutesa II Stadium in Wankulukuku, Kiira Police Area, Lugazi Stadium, FUFA Technical Centre in Njeru and Rwamwanja Stadium in Kamwenge.
Nonetheless, eight venues didn’t safe approval after inspectors recognized numerous shortcomings starting from poor enjoying surfaces to insufficient services for gamers, officers, followers and the media.
The rejected venues are Bugonga Fisheries Floor, MTN Omondi Stadium, Luzira Prisons Floor, Royal’s Park Butema, Kigezi Al-Madina Floor, Mbale Metropolis Stadium, Bombo Barracks Floor and Ebenezer College Floor.
A typical development among the many non-approved stadiums was poor pitch circumstances, with a number of venues having naked patches and requiring in depth turf upkeep, together with levelling, mowing, rolling and grass planting. Insufficient drainage methods additionally emerged as a serious concern, elevating fears of flooding through the wet season.
The inspection report additional highlighted deficiencies in dressing rooms, technical benches and sanitary services, with many stadiums missing devoted medical rooms for gamers and match officers.
A number of grounds had been additionally discovered wanting by way of safety and media infrastructure. A lot of the rejected venues don’t have media working areas, whereas some lack perimeter fencing, fan segregation and safe entry routes for gamers from dressing rooms to the sector of play.
Specific concern was raised over the state of MTN Omondi Stadium, whose synthetic enjoying floor was described as considerably worn out, particularly within the goalmouth areas the place it poses a severe threat of harm to gamers. The stadium’s floodlighting system was additionally discovered to be beneath the minimal necessities, averaging solely 503 lux.
Royal’s Park Butema, residence to Kitara FC, was faulted for its uneven enjoying floor, insufficient dressing room services and overgrown environment, whereas Bombo Barracks Floor was cited for poor sanitary services, lack of fan separation and the absence of a media working space.
Ebenezer College Floor and Kigezi Al-Madina Floor had been among the many venues with probably the most important shortcomings, missing fundamental infrastructure equivalent to dressing rooms, technical benches and perimeter fencing.
The publication of the inspection outcomes now locations strain on the affected golf equipment and stadium homeowners to undertake the required renovations and enhancements if they’re to safe approval to host matches through the forthcoming season.
The membership licensing course of types a part of FUFA’s broader efforts to enhance soccer infrastructure requirements throughout the nation and be certain that match venues present a secure {and professional} surroundings for all stakeholders.
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Gymnast Ruby Evans has won Wales’ first Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow with victory in the floor final.
Evans, 19, performed the final routine of the women’s programme and defeated England’s Abigail Martin into silver, with her team-mate Shantae-Eve Amankwaah securing bronze.
Evans left the arena in tears on Sunday after her disappointing sixth in the all-round individual competition, that after Wales finished fourth in the team event.
Now, after Welsh identical twins Abigail and Emily Roper won bronze medals within a couple of hours of each other on Monday, Evans has delivered gold.
It was the first victory for Team Wales in Scotland and a ninth medal alongside two silver and six bronze.
There is also a guaranteed podium position for boxer Connor Williams after he reached the semi-finals.
An amateur cricket match has made global headlines after a fielder was accused of cheating by clicking his fingers to get a wicket.
The North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League has started an investigation into a second XI Division 2 game between Saltburn and Norton.
A viral video on social media appears to show a Saltburn fielder clicking his fingers as the ball passes Noman Shabir’s bat before being caught by wicketkeeper Josh Bowes. Saltburn appeal and the umpire gives Shabir out.
It has been suggested that the finger-clicking was designed to trick the umpire into thinking the batter edged the ball.
Saltburn won by 159 runs and are top of Division 2 by 17 points.
“The league have received a formal complaint regarding alleged incidents in a Division Two game on Saturday,” the league said in a statement on X.
“A full investigation has been initiated and until such time as the formal processes are complete no further comment will be made.”
Last week Bowes took eight catches in Saltburn’s 22-run win over Shildon Railway. The men’s Test record for catches by a keeper in an innings is seven.
Bowes leads the league standings with 31 catches, 10 more than any other player.
Rory Cotterill, who captained Middlesbrough second XI during a 29-run defeat by Saltburn last month, responded to a social media post containing the video and alleged two further incidents of cheating by Saltburn in that match.
The original video of the incident has had more than three million views on X, with publications in Australia and New Zealand among those to report it.
The BBC has contacted the league and Saltburn. Norton declined to comment.
First Test, Tarouba (day three of five)
West Indies 311 (Hope 92; Ali 4-50) & 126-7 (Chanderpaul 35, Abbas 3-14)
Pakistan 282 (Masood 109; Greaves 5-27)
West Indies lead by 155 runs
West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves took five wickets without conceding a run in an incredible spell of bowling on day three of the first Test against Pakistan.
Greaves, who is playing in his 17th Test, claimed his maiden Test five-wicket haul to help dismiss Pakistan for 282 in response to West Indies’ first-innings total of 311.
The 32-year-old Barbadian’s spell – five consecutive wicket maidens – was all the more remarkable given he had bowled six overs earlier in the day for 27 runs without taking a wicket.
“When I came on captain Roston Chase just said ‘continue to be disciplined in what you are doing’ and to see if I can get some wickets for the team,” Greaves said.
“The ball nipped around and I got some reward. Anytime I get the ball in hand the team looks to me to be that solid player for them [and] try to dig us out of situations.
“To get five wickets for the first time in Test cricket, I’m really happy, but there’s still a lot of work to do in the game.”
Pakistan captain Shan Masood was Greaves’ first wicket at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad when he was bowled for 109 in the 64th over following a superb set-up.
Greaves had pushed the ball wide to the left-hander from over the wicket before he tailed a delivery back into Masood who played down the wrong line and inside edged on to his stumps.
Aamer Jamal had his middle stump uprooted in Greaves’ next over as the seamer speared one through his defences.
Greaves then trapped Ali Usman lbw before he had Mohammed Rizwan and Mohammad Abbas both caught behind as Pakistan lost their last seven wickets for just 38 runs.
West Indies reached stumps on day three on 126-7 in their second innings – a lead of 155 runs – to leave the match finely poised.
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