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David GOMBE

Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC will face Mauritania’s FC Nouadhibou within the CAF Champions League Preliminary spherical.

The Venoms learnt their path on the draw held in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday afternoon.

Vipers will host the primary leg between 4th to sixth September 2026 with the return fixture slated in Mauritania.

The mixture winner between Vipers and FC Nouadhibou and can face the winner between Libya’s Swehly FC or Zanzibar’s KVZ SC within the subsequent spherical.

FC Nouadhibou is a Mauritanian skilled soccer membership based mostly within the business centre of Nouadhibou. They compete within the Ligue 1 Mauritania, the highest flight of Mauritanian soccer.

The membership was based in 1999 and host their video games on the 10,300 seater Floor
Stade Municipal de Nouadhibou, Nouadhibou Stadium.

They’re 14-time Mauritania champions having received it in 2001, 2002, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.

Their first look at a continental competitors was in 2003 and was within the preliminary spherical, the membership confronted Niger’s AS Niamey and the rating was 2–2 in two of its matches and misplaced below the away objectives rule in Niamey.

Vipers final reached the group stage of the CAF Champions League in the course of the 2022/23 season after eliminating TP Mazembe within the closing preliminary spherical.

The membership certified for the group stage of the 2019-20 CAF Confederation Cup after defeating Triangle FC of Zimbabwe 4–3 on combination within the play-off spherical.