KCCA are champions

Kampala. He can now quit. Mike Mutebi can now leave as KCCA manager, as he has done before, only that this time, he will have signed off as a title winning coach. At last.
Friday’s final match at home to Sadolin Paints will be a formality after Muzamiru Mutyaba’s 62nd minute equaliser to invalidate Vincent Kayizzi’s first half penalty for Express at Wankulukuku ensured KCCA sealed this season’s league title with a game to spare. KCCA’s 11th league honour is Mutebi’s first ever title in football management since breaking his teeth as a coach mid-90s.

He has twice literally walked away from possible honours KCCA.
He is relieved at shaking off the ‘nearly man’ tag. “I (always) leave with five matches to go and others come and win the title, so I’m happy that is gone,” said the 46-year-old Uefa diploma A holder from Germany.
“The most pleasing thing is that this is a young team. Most of these boys, it’s their first experience to play for a big team, so to do that, it’s a good thing; and to groom that team and it is winning, it is pleasing.”

The 1-1 result at Express was replicated by deposed champions, Vipers, at Buikwe, where URA’s Robert Ssentongo and Erisa Ssekisambu scored to take the golden boot fight to the final day. Ssentongo has netted 16, one more than Ssekisambu.
KCCA top standings on 56 points, four more than Vipers. Mutebi’s would-have-been first title was after he replaced club legend Phillip Omondi as coach at the then KCC in 1996, where he was joined by Sam Ssimbwa as assistant. But he quit with a handful of games to the end of the 1997 season after disagreements with the club. KCCA legend Tom Lwanga and Ssimbwa carried the team over the line to the title.
Mutebi returned in 2003 as technical director before taking over head coaching reins again, leading KCCA to the 2004 Kakungulu Cup final.

But he quit again on eve of the final over unpaid wages and reported interference from management.
A one Robert Kabuye oversaw the final and won it. It is said Mutebi made the line-up for that game, a point Ssimbwa confirmed in an earlier interview.
But enjoying a seemingly healthy relationship with KCCA management now, Mutebi is unlikely to repeat his previous walk-aways.
As KCCA won the league, Simba joined SCVU and Maroons as the relegated clubs despite the army side’s 2-0 victory over The Saints.

UGANDA PREMIER LEAGUE

P W D L F A Ps
KCCA 29 16 8 5 38 20 56
Vipers 29 14 10 5 36 21 52
Express 29 14 8 7 36 26 50
SC Villa 29 12 11 6 32 22 47
Soana 29 12 9 8 43 39 45
URA 29 11 11 7 41 30 44
Police 29 11 11 7 29 25 44
Bul 29 13 5 11 30 27 44
Sadolin Paints 29 12 6 11 21 24 42
JMC Hippos 29 10 8 11 25 21 38
The Saints 29 10 6 13 29 27 36
Bright Stars 29 8 10 11 18 22 34
Lweza 29 9 7 13 25 38 34
Simba 29 6 11 12 25 26 29
SCVU 29 5 4 20 16 54 19
Maroons 29 3 7 19 14 36 16

Top scorers
Robert Ssentongo 16 (URA)
Erisa Ssekisambu 15 (Vipers SC)
Caesar Okhuti 11 (KCCA)
Tony Odur 9 (Express)
Musa Esenu 8 (Soana)
Geoffrey Sserunkuma 7 (Lweza)
Patrick Kaddu 7 (Maroons)

Ugandan league winners since 1969

1969: Prisons
1969: Prisons
1970: Coffee
1971: Simba
1974: Express
1975: Express
1976: KCC
1977: KCC
1978: Simba
1979: UCB
1980: Nile
1981: KCC
1982: SC Villa
1983: KCC
1984: SC Villa
1985: KCC
1986: SC Villa
1987: SC Villa
1988: SC Villa
1989: SC Villa
1990: SC Villa
1991: KCC
1992: SC Villa
1993: Express
1994: SC Villa
1995: Express
1996: Express
1997: KCC
1998: SC Villa
1999: SC Villa
2000: SC Villa
2001: SC Villa
2002: SC Villa
2003: SC Villa
2004: SC Villa
2005: Police
2006: URA
2007: URA
2008: KCC
2009: URA
2010: Bunnamwaya
(Now Vipers)
2011: URA
2012: Express
2013: KCC
2014: KCC
2015: Vipers
2015: KCCA.

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