Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC have found their path to the Group Stage of the 2025/26 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League following Saturday’s preliminary spherical draw held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Venoms will face Namibia’s African Stars within the First Preliminary Spherical. Ought to they advance, they’ll meet the winner between Energy Dynamos of Zambia and ASEC Mimosas of Côte d’Ivoire within the Second Preliminary Spherical.
Within the first leg of the First Preliminary Spherical, scheduled for 19–21 September 2025, Vipers will play away earlier than internet hosting the return leg at St Mary’s Stadium, Kitende between 26–28 September.
In the event that they progress, Vipers will host the primary leg of the Second Preliminary Spherical between 17–19 October, earlier than touring for the return leg between 24–26 October.
This might be Vipers’ fourth look within the CAF Champions League. Their earlier campaigns have produced blended outcomes:
- 2016 – Eradicated within the Preliminary Spherical by Nigeria’s Enyimba FC.
- 2018/19 – Knocked out within the First Spherical by Algeria’s CS Constantine.
- 2022/23 – Made historical past by reaching the Group Stage for the primary time, dealing with Raja Casablanca (Morocco), Horoya AC (Guinea), and Simba SC (Tanzania), however completed backside of the group.
Vipers might be hoping to attract from that have as they goal to safe back-to-back group stage appearances and make a deeper run on this 12 months’s competitors.
