FUFA Women Elite League is a

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league in

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sanctioned by the

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(FUFA). Until the 2019–20 season, the league was the top-flight women's football league in

. The

FUFA Women Super League The FUFA Women Super League is among the top-flight women's domestic football league in Uganda which is sanctioned by the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. In 2019, the Women Super League was introduced to the Ugandan women's football sy ...

succeeded the Women Elite League as the top women's football league in the country.

History

The establishment of the FUFA Women Elite League in 2015 followed Uganda's stint at the African qualifiers of the

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where it won in a two-legged preliminary round match over

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on a 22–0 aggregate. However the

(FUFA) withdrew the national team from the qualifiers since it deemed "improper" to continue its campaign if there is no women's league in the country. The introduction of the Women Super League to the Ugandan women's football system as the new highest women's football league for the 2019–20 season relegated the FUFA Women Elite League as a second division league reducing the number of competing teams in the Elite League from 16 to 8. Due to the

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, the 2019–20 season of the Women Elite League was cancelled with Isra Soccer Academy (Victoria group) and

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(Elizabeth group) promoted to the Women Super League for the 2020–21 season.

Final playoff results

*2015: Kawempe 3-2 Buikwe *2015–16: Kawempe Muslim 0-0 (4–2 pen) She Corporates *2016–17: Kawempe Muslim 4-0 UCU Cardinals *2017–18: Kawempe Muslim 1-0 Olila Women *2018–19: UCU Lady Cardinals 2-0 Lady Dove *2019–20: ''Not held''

References

{{Top level women's association football leagues around the world Football competitions in Uganda

Women's football in Uganda Sports leagues established in 2015 2015 establishments in Uganda