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 12 months, with a gradual acquisition of extra stake anticipated over the approaching years.

Underneath the renewed settlement, Kampala Queens can 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 components.

The 2 groups KCCA FC and KCCA WFC (previously Kampala Queens FC) will now function because the official males’s and ladies’s soccer groups beneath the KCCA Soccer Membership model.

Whereas totally built-in beneath the KCCA FC banner, the ladies’s group will retain its iconic nickname, The Kampala Queens, which has change into synonymous with the membership and its profitable journey over time.

KCCA FC says it’s 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 higher success on and off the pitch,” the membership stated.

The transfer makes KCCA the most recent Uganda Premier League aspect to formally personal a girls’s group, becoming a member of rivals Vipers SC and BUL FC, and is seen as a serious increase 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 all Uganda’s largest manufacturers is predicted to raise their business enchantment and technical setup forward of the brand new season.