The Uganda Premier League Secretariat has formally introduced the postponement of the extremely anticipated fixture between SC Villa and Maroons FC.
Initially scheduled for Saturday, eighth March 2025, the match will now happen on Sunday, Ninth March 2025.
The rescheduling comes because of a vital FIFA U17 Girls’s World Cup Qualifier match between the Uganda U17 Girls’s Nationwide Workforce and their Kenyan counterparts.
The match is ready to be performed on the identical day at Hamz Stadium, Nakivubo.
To keep away from a scheduling battle and permit followers to help the nationwide group, the league organizers, in session with each golf equipment, determined to shift the SC Villa vs. Maroons FC match by a day.
The Uganda Premier League acknowledges the significance of nationwide group help and, subsequently, adjusted the membership fixture to allow followers to rally behind the Uganda U17 Girls’s Nationwide Workforce on Saturday earlier than attending the SC Villa-Maroons match the next day.
Of their final assembly, SC Villa and Maroons FC performed to a 1-1 draw, with Jackson Nunda equalizing after David Owori’s first-half purpose.
The 2 groups are at present neck-and-neck within the league standings, with SC Villa in eighth place on 24 factors, simply forward of Ninth-placed Maroons FC, who even have 24 factors.
As SC Villa prepares for the rescheduled fixture, the membership has but to verify the venue.
The group is contemplating both internet hosting the sport at Luzira, which can also be Maroons FC’s residence floor, or finalizing preparations to make use of Wankulukuku Stadium.
An official announcement relating to the venue is predicted within the coming days.
