The mainland football administering body, CAF has given a green light to the St.Mary’s Stadium, Kitende in Wakiso area to have the forthcoming World Cup qualifying games for the Uganda Cranes.
On Monday, CAF remembered St Mary’s arena for the rundown of stadia around the landmass that will be utilized by nations to have the passing games that start one month from now.
The advancement closes theory about where Uganda will has its World Cup qualifying games after St.Mary’s Kitende had at first breezed through the assessment to have just Afcon games though Namboole had before been considered beneath standard to have any global game.
The most recent examination by FIFA had demonstrated that St.Mary’s Stadium, the lone accessible alternative right now after Namboole was transformed into a Covid-19 treatment place had no floodlights and access streets that must be worked upon prior to being cleared.
The State Minister for Sports, Hamson Obua had indicated Uganda facilitating the World Qualifying games from an adjoining country if all else fails.
“Uganda possibly has St Mary’s Kitende and if the group of examiners doesn’t endorse it, we will have no real option except to have all our World Cup qualifiers in one of the nations outside Uganda,”Obua said as of late.
World Cup qualifiers
Uganda in the wake of being pooled in Group E close by neighbors Kenya, Rwanda and Mali will currently turn weapons onto the World Cup qualifiers one month from now.
The Cranes will start their mission for a first-historically speaking appearance at the worldwide show-stopper with an outing to Nairobi to confront Kenya between fifth 8thJune prior to getting back to activity with a home apparatus against Mali to be played between June 11 and 14 in Kampala.
The Cranes will at that point head for a doubleheader with Rwanda between September 1 and 4 and the return leg in a space of a little while and afterward have Kenya in the main seven day stretch of October, before the penultimate gathering game with Mali in Bamako set for October 10 and 12.
The gathering victor after six games will go into the last passing stage that will have nine other gathering pioneers.
There will be a draw for the last ten groups and the five victors on total will address Africa at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar one year from now.
