Maroons Football Club also known as Prisons Football Club, is a

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...

n football club from

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owned by Uganda Prisons Service, currently playing in the FUFA Big League. Playing as Prisons FC, the club won the first two editions of the Ugandan Premier League

History

Prisons FC won the first two

Ugandan Super League The Ugandan Premier League, also known as the StarTimes Uganda Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. The league was previously known as the Uganda Super League but changed in ...

titles in 1968 and 1969, and were the first team to represent Uganda in international competition in the 1970 African Cup of Champions Clubs (a Ugandan team, Bitumastic, qualified in 1967 but withdrew before playing a match.) The club declined during the 1980s and suffered their first relegation in 1987. They were champions of the Second division of Ugandan football, the

Ugandan Big League The Ugandan Big League is the second tier of Ugandan football pyramid. History Original concept The concept of re-structuring Ugandan football with the creation of a new second tier league was first mooted in October 2008 by the Federation ...

, three times in the 2010s, gaining promotion to the

Ugandan Premier League The Ugandan Premier League, also known as the StarTimes Uganda Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top division of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations. The league was previously known as the Uganda Super League but changed in ...

each time. Their most recent promotion came in the 2017/2018 football season.

Honours

::Champion (2): 1968, 1969 * FUFA Big League ::Champion (3): 2010, 2015, 2017

Performance in CAF competitions

* African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1 appearance ::

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– Quarter-finals

References

External links

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