AS Kigali has formally modified the title of its males’s soccer staff to Kigali FC, bringing an finish to greater than 20 years underneath the AS Kigali identification.
The rebranding was authorized by the membership’s Extraordinary Basic Meeting held in Kigali on Sunday, August 16.
Based in 1999, the membership has undergone a number of identification adjustments over time. It was initially often called Les Citadins, a reputation that turned intently related to the Kigali Metropolis-backed facet earlier than the membership later adopted the AS Kigali title following the merger of Les Citadins and Renaissance.
The Basic Meeting additionally authorized the mixing of the ladies’s staff into the membership’s construction and renamed it Kigali Girls Soccer Membership.
Management adjustments
The assembly additionally endorsed adjustments to the membership’s management.
Members accepted the resignation of Vice President Anne-Lise Alida Kankindi, who stepped down on July 16, and elected Clarisse Uwimana as her successor.
Uwimana is a sports activities journalist and former top-flight footballer who performed for a number of golf equipment, together with APR WFC and AS Kigali.
The meeting additionally authorized Alffred Nduwayezu, Gertrude Urujeni and Patricie Murekatete as new members of the membership’s Supreme Organ.
The newly rebranded Kigali FC has grown into certainly one of Rwanda’s established soccer golf equipment, recurrently competing among the many nation’s prime sides and representing Rwanda in continental competitions.
Though the membership has by no means received the Rwanda Premier League title, it has loved appreciable success in knockout competitions.
AS Kigali received its first Peace Cup title in 2001, whereas nonetheless competing as Les Citadins, earlier than including additional triumphs in 2013, 2019 and 2022.
The membership has additionally received the Rwanda Tremendous Cup twice, in 2013 and 2022, additional establishing itself as a aggressive pressure in home soccer.
On the ladies’s facet, the membership has been amongst Rwanda’s most profitable groups, successful the Girls’s Soccer League on a number of events and taking part in an necessary position within the growth of ladies’s soccer within the nation.
