BUL beat Vipers to retain Super 8 Cup

FUFA Super 8 Final

BUL 0-0 Vipers SC (6-5)

BUL won 6-5 on penalties

Third Place Playoff 

Kitara FC 0-2 Cranes Select 

Fifth Place Playoff

KCCA 1-0 NEC

Seventh Place Playoff

Maroons 0-2 SC Villa

BUL retained the FUFA Super 8 Cup after beating Vipers SC 6-5 on penalties at the MTN Omondi Stadium, Lugogo on Sunday.

The battle had to be decided in a shootout after normal and extra times had ended goalless.

BUL’s performance throughout the competition will have impressed coach Abbey Kikomeko as the Jinja side set the perfect tone ahead of the 2024/25 StarTimes Uganda Premier League that kicks off this month.

As a matter of fact, this season’s curtain rising tournament served as a positive launchpad for six other clubs to tune up for the new season.

It also gave playing time to some national team players who featured in the Cranes Select.

The Cranes Select participated as guests, making up the eight teams in the competition.

The other seven competed by virtue of how they finished in the table last season.

Elsewhere, a Henry Kitegenyi brace earned Cranes Select the third place bragging rights at the expense of Kitara, whom they beat 2-0.

KCCA finished fifth after edging NEC 1-0, thanks to Abubaker Mayanja’s goal.

Francis Onekalit and Patrick Jonah Kakande’s goals secured SC Villa the seventh place in the 2-0 win over Maroons.

The 2024/25 SUPL season kicks off next Friday, September 13, with KCCA at home to URA headlining Matchday One at Lugogo.