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David GOMBE
The Uganda Rugby 7s Collection returns this weekend, with Nile Particular as soon as once more backing one of many nation’s greatest rugby competitions because the 2026 season will get underway with the Stone Metropolis 7s at Ruck Yard Sports activities Membership.
The brand new season will function 12 core males’s groups and eight core ladies’s groups competing throughout six stops across the nation, culminating within the Kabaka Coronation 7s Grand Finale at Muteesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku, in September.
Operating beneath the theme “Tukikube. Each Cease.”, the 2026 Collection is ready to take rugby past the capital whereas creating extra alternatives for gamers, golf equipment and followers to take part within the recreation.
The six stops will take the competitors by Kampala, Kyadondo, Gulu and Bugembe earlier than returning to Kampala for the Grand Finale.
For Nile Particular, the return of the 7s Collection continues the model’s longstanding affiliation with Ugandan rugby and its dedication to creating platforms that convey followers collectively across the sport.
Talking forward of the opening weekend, Nile Particular Model Supervisor Eric Malinga mentioned the partnership is about supporting each the competitors on the pitch and the fan tradition that has grown round Ugandan rugby.
“Nile Particular has at all times stood for the spirit of togetherness that brings Ugandans to their toes, and there’s no higher stage for that than the Uganda Rugby 7s Collection. Tukikube, we’re proud to do that alongside each host, participant and fan this season,” Malinga mentioned.
The Collection begins with the Stone Metropolis 7s on July 24–25 at Ruck Yard Sports activities Membership, hosted by Hippos RFC. The opening cease will function Friday night rugby beneath floodlights earlier than competitors resumes on Saturday, constructing in direction of the boys’s last at 5:00 PM.
From Stone Metropolis, the Collection strikes to the Rujumba 7s at King’s Park Enviornment on August 1–2, adopted by the Kyadondo 7s at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds on August 22–23.
The competitors will then head north for the Lawirwodi 7s in Gulu on August 29–30, earlier than the Kyabazinga 7s in Bugembe on September 12–13. The season concludes with the Kabaka Coronation 7s at Muteesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku, on September 19–20, staged in partnership with the Buganda Kingdom.
The addition of the Lawirwodi 7s is especially vital as Uganda Rugby continues to increase the nationwide footprint of the game and create stronger aggressive buildings exterior Kampala.
Want Derekford Mugumisa, Chairman of the Uganda Rugby Sevens Organising Committee, mentioned the adjustments replicate an ambition to make aggressive rugby extra accessible throughout the nation.
“Tukikube. Each Cease. speaks to what we would like this season to signify: alternative, competitors and development at each degree. Each membership in Uganda now has an earned path to the highest. With the Pathway Collection feeding promotion into the nationwide championship, no one’s place is given and no one’s ceiling is fastened. That’s how a sport grows,” Mugumisa mentioned.
The 2026 season additionally introduces vital structural adjustments supposed to strengthen the pathway into top-level home rugby. The ladies’s core competitors has expanded from six to eight groups, creating extra taking part in alternatives and a much bigger aggressive platform for the ladies’s recreation.
Invitational groups at particular person stops have additionally been changed by the brand new Uganda Rugby 7s Pathway Collection, a nationwide regional competitors wherein every of Uganda’s 4 areas will host 4 stops adopted by two Promotional Collection.
On the finish of the season, the underside two males’s and ladies’s groups within the nationwide Collection shall be relegated and changed by the highest two groups from the Promotional Collection, establishing a transparent pathway by which rising golf equipment can earn their place on the highest degree.