David GOMBE
KCCA FC has formally acquired a 30% stake in Kampala Queens FC in a landmark deal that’s set to reshape girls’s soccer in Uganda.
In a press release launched on Tuesday, the Lugogo-based membership confirmed the acquisition is for an preliminary interval of 1 yr, with a gradual acquisition of extra stake anticipated over the approaching years.
Below the renewed settlement, Kampala Queens might be formally rebranded as KCCA Ladies FC (KCCA WFC). The squad will undertake KCCA FC’s full model identification, together with official membership colors and visible parts.
The 2 groups KCCA FC and KCCA WFC (previously Kampala Queens FC) will now function because the official males’s and girls’s soccer groups below the KCCA Soccer Membership model.
Whereas totally built-in below the KCCA FC banner, the ladies’s workforce will retain its iconic nickname, The Kampala Queens, which has turn out to be synonymous with the membership and its profitable journey over time.
KCCA FC says it is going to make investments its structural, business and technical assets in KCCA Ladies FC as a part of a shared ambition to construct a stronger soccer establishment.
> “This partnership unites a shared ambition to construct a stronger soccer establishment, develop girls’s soccer, and obtain better success on and off the pitch,” the membership stated.
The transfer makes KCCA the newest Uganda Premier League aspect to formally personal a girls’s workforce, becoming a member of rivals Vipers SC and BUL FC, and is seen as a significant enhance for the FUFA Ladies Tremendous League.
Kampala Queens are two-time FUFA Ladies Tremendous League champions and one of the dominant sides within the nation. The partnership with one in every of Uganda’s greatest manufacturers is anticipated to raise their business enchantment and technical setup forward of the brand new season.
