The stage is about for the thirteenth version of the Pepsi College Soccer League (UFL), with this season promising extra pleasure, extra groups, and a refreshed competitors format modeled after the UEFA Champions League.
The attracts for the 2025/2026 season have been formally performed on Thursday, September 18, 2025, at Kati Kati Restaurant in Lugogo, bringing collectively representatives from universities, sports activities tutors, and high officers from the Affiliation of Uganda College Sports activities (AUUS). This 12 months’s version, the biggest because the league’s inception in 2012, will function a document 29 college groups, up from 23 within the earlier season.
The league will formally kick off on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at Hamz Stadium, Nakivubo, with reigning champions Uganda Martyrs College enjoying the opening recreation towards certainly one of their Group A opponents. The total fixture record is predicted to be launched later this week.
5 universities shall be making their debut within the league specifically King Censor College (Ggaba Street), Soroti College, Lira College, Mountains of the Moon College, Africa Renewal College (Buloba)
The 2025/26 season additionally marks the return of Kyambogo College and Bishop Stuart College, who have been suspended in earlier seasons, with Kyambogo notably serving a two-year ban attributable to hooliganism.
Nevertheless, Victoria College, which featured in earlier campaigns, shall be absent from this 12 months’s event for undisclosed causes.
In a significant format shift, this season’s competitors will undertake a UEFA Champions League-style group stage Groups will face one another solely as soon as both at dwelling or away in contrast to in earlier seasons the place home-and-away ties have been commonplace.
The 29 groups have been divided into 5 teams three teams of six groups and two teams of 5 primarily based largely on geographical proximity.
Group winners will mechanically qualify for the quarterfinals and they are going to be joined by the three greatest runners-up throughout all teams, making up the ultimate eight for the knockout stage.
Group A
Uganda Martyrs College (Reigning Champions)
Kampala College (Two-time Champions)
Mountains of the Moon College (Debutants)
College of Kisubi
Mbarara College of Science and Know-how (MUST)
Kampala Worldwide College (KIU)
Group B
Kabale College
Bishop Stuart College (Returning)
Muteesa I Royal College
Bugema College
Africa Renewal College (Debutants)
Worldwide College of East Africa (IUEA)
Group C
Nkumba College (Former Champions)
Busitema College
Soroti College (Debutants)
YMCA
ISBAT College
Kyambogo College (Returning)
Group D
St. Lawrence College
Muni College
Lira College (Debutants)
Gulu College
Makerere College Enterprise Faculty (MUBS)
Group E
Islamic College in Uganda (IUIU)
Kumi College
Makerere College
Uganda Christian College (UCU)
Ndejje College
King Censor College (Debutants)
