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David GOMBE
The Uganda Rugby 7s Sequence returns this weekend, with Nile Particular as soon as once more backing one of many nation’s largest rugby competitions because the 2026 season will get underway with the Stone Metropolis 7s at Ruck Yard Sports activities Membership.
The brand new season will characteristic 12 core males’s groups and eight core girls’s groups competing throughout six stops across the nation, culminating within the Kabaka Coronation 7s Grand Finale at Muteesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku, in September.
Working underneath the theme “Tukikube. Each Cease.”, the 2026 Sequence is ready to take rugby past the capital whereas creating extra alternatives for gamers, golf equipment and followers to take part within the recreation.
The six stops will take the competitors by means of Kampala, Kyadondo, Gulu and Bugembe earlier than returning to Kampala for the Grand Finale.
For Nile Particular, the return of the 7s Sequence continues the model’s longstanding affiliation with Ugandan rugby and its dedication to creating platforms that convey followers collectively across the sport.
Talking forward of the opening weekend, Nile Particular Model Supervisor Eric Malinga stated the partnership is about supporting each the competitors on the pitch and the fan tradition that has grown round Ugandan rugby.
“Nile Particular has at all times stood for the spirit of togetherness that brings Ugandans to their ft, and there’s no higher stage for that than the Uganda Rugby 7s Sequence. Tukikube, we’re proud to do that alongside each host, participant and fan this season,” Malinga stated.
The Sequence begins with the Stone Metropolis 7s on July 24–25 at Ruck Yard Sports activities Membership, hosted by Hippos RFC. The opening cease will characteristic Friday night rugby underneath floodlights earlier than competitors resumes on Saturday, constructing in direction of the boys’s closing at 5:00 PM.
From Stone Metropolis, the Sequence strikes to the Rujumba 7s at King’s Park Area on August 1–2, adopted by the Kyadondo 7s at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds on August 22–23.
The competitors will then head north for the Lawirwodi 7s in Gulu on August 29–30, earlier than the Kyabazinga 7s in Bugembe on September 12–13. The season concludes with the Kabaka Coronation 7s at Muteesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku, on September 19–20, staged in partnership with the Buganda Kingdom.
The addition of the Lawirwodi 7s is especially important as Uganda Rugby continues to develop the nationwide footprint of the game and create stronger aggressive constructions exterior Kampala.
Need Derekford Mugumisa, Chairman of the Uganda Rugby Sevens Organising Committee, stated the modifications mirror an ambition to make aggressive rugby extra accessible throughout the nation.
“Tukikube. Each Cease. speaks to what we would like this season to signify: alternative, competitors and progress at each degree. Each membership in Uganda now has an earned path to the highest. With the Pathway Sequence feeding promotion into the nationwide championship, no one’s place is given and no one’s ceiling is fastened. That’s how a sport grows,” Mugumisa stated.
The 2026 season additionally introduces important structural modifications meant to strengthen the pathway into top-level home rugby. The ladies’s core competitors has expanded from six to eight groups, creating extra enjoying alternatives and an even bigger aggressive platform for the ladies’s recreation.
Invitational groups at particular person stops have additionally been changed by the brand new Uganda Rugby 7s Pathway Sequence, a nationwide regional competitors wherein every of Uganda’s 4 areas will host 4 stops adopted by two Promotional Sequence.
On the finish of the season, the underside two males’s and ladies’s groups within the nationwide Sequence can be relegated and changed by the highest two groups from the Promotional Sequence, establishing a transparent pathway by means of which rising golf equipment can earn their place on the highest degree.
