Fauzia Najjemba (born 7 October 2003) is a Ugandan
footballer
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who plays as a
striker for
Russian Women's Football Championship
The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин), also known as the Top Division and the Women's Football League, is the highest professional women's football league ...
club
ZFK Dynamo Moscow and the
Uganda women's national team.
Early life
Najjemba was raised in
Nakifuma
Nakifuma is a town in the Central Region of Uganda.
Location
Nakifuma lies in ''Nakifuma sub-county'', ''Kyaggwe County'', in Mukono District. The town is located on the main highway from Kampala, through Gayaza, Kalagi and on to Kayunga. T ...
and belongs to the
Baganda
The Ganda people, or Baganda (endonym: ''Baganda''; singular ''Muganda''), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are official ...
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Club career
Najjemba has played for Kampala Queens FC in Uganda.
International career
Najjemba capped for Uganda at senior level during the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
The 2022 Women Africa Cup of Nations qualification was a women's association football, football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations, which in turn is part of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup q ...
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International goals
''Scores and results list Uganda goal tally first''
References
External links
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2003 births
Living people
People from Mukono District
Ugandan women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
BIIK Kazygurt players
Uganda women's international footballers
Ugandan expatriate women's footballers
Ugandan expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan
Ganda people
Sportspeople from Central Region, Uganda
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