FUFA agreed to share the cost with teams during the FUFA Big League play-offs to meet SOP’s
During a Consultative Meeting held on Monday 05 October 2020 at the FUFA Complex building in Kampala, the big league and regional leagues team representatives that will fixture in play-offs discussed with the Ugandan football leaders the financial challenges they will face during the play-offs games.
In the welcome speech of the President of the Ugandan Football Federation, Eng. Moses Magogo thanked them for their contribution to the development of football. He reminded them that even though they are in a difficult situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and people want to play football again, life must come first and strive to restore and develop this game.
He said, “We thank you for the incredible work you are doing for football. Football clubs are the beginning blocks of football. Without clubs, you can not have football. You are making a contribution to the game of football. We are aware of the challenges everyone is going through because of COVID-19. We are in an abnormal year but football people want to play football but life is very important. It is not a matter of life and death. We must live tomorrow. As football people, we have a responsibility to make. Fair as possible so that we take football to the next level. There is no time and already club licensing is taking place. We received SOP’s from Government and the Ministry of Health that included playing before under closed doors, regular social distancing, masking and sanitizing as well as quarantine of the teams (tournament environment with camping hotel after undertaking COVID-19 tests).”
The participants continued to exchange views and came to an agreement that FUFA would share the COVID-19 testing costs with the clubs; meet the accommodation, feeding the team players and officials as well as provision of medical services for all the teams during the matches. A point that was well received by the team representatives who said that the meeting was useful and even expressed the gratitude of FUFA partnership.
It was reiterated in the meeting that the teams had difficulty in testing the players and did not hesitate to continue to ask FUFA to continue engaging the government to reduce the cost of the COVID-19 tests from shs 240 000 which is very big.
The date for the FUFA Big league play-offs is tentatively set for November 10, 2020 with FUFA Technical Center confirmed as the venue for these play-offs
