Overview:

The victory was, however, overshadowed by the passing of an assistant referee, Peter Kabugo. "The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) regrets to announce the sudden passing of National Assistant Referee, Peter Kabugo, who collapsed during a league match at Wankulukuku Stadium on Friday 1st November 2024," reads in part a statement from the local FA.

StarTimes Uganda Premier League Results

Friday, November 1, 2024

Result

SC Villa 5-0 UPDF

Charles Lwanga scored four goals as SC Villa hit UPDF 5-0 in a StarTimes Uganda Premier League match played at Mutesa II Stadium, Wankulukuku on Friday.

The victory was, however, overshadowed by the passing of an assistant referee, Peter Kabugo.

“The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) regrets to announce the sudden passing of National Assistant Referee, Peter Kabugo, who collapsed during a league match at Wankulukuku Stadium on Friday 1st November 2024,” reads in part a statement from the local FA.

“A postmortem examination will be conducted to determine the cause of death,” it adds.

Before the sad news of the referee’s passing filtered through, Villa and Charles Lwanga put on a scoring clinic as the striker grabbed four of the Jogoos’ goals, the fifth being an own goal by Aggrey Kirya.

The Jogoos went ahead inside the first minute when Jonah Patrick Kakande released Reagan Mpande down the left before the latter beat his man and crossed for Kirya to unfortunately turn the ball into his own net.

Lwanga opened his own account 10 minutes later, staffing home from close range Ronald Ssekiganda’s helped-on pass from Hakim Kiwanuka’s dinked cross from the right.

It was a Lwanga show from here on. The striker made it 3-0 for Villa in the 14th minute after yet another scintillating move from the hosts.

Kakande again drove the ball on the right, passing it on to Kiwanuka, whose back-flip went straight into Lwanga’s path before the young striker clinically finished it off.

At 3-0 by halftime, it was a matter of how many more UPDF would ship in after the break. It was not long before Lwanga completed his hat-trick six minutes into the second half.

The striker then put the final nail in the visitors’ coffin, slotting home an impressive Kiwanuka’s low cross from inside the penalty area with 20 minutes left to play. 

That moved Lwanga to five goals, joining Mbarara’s Seiri Arigumaho, Vipers Allan Okello and URA’s Ivan Ahimbisibwe on the top scoring charts.

Villa’s third win in seven matches moved them six places up to fourth on 11 points, six behind leaders KCCA, while UPDF are 10th on nine.