City Oilers is a

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club based in Lugogo, Kampala, Uganda. The team competes in the Ugandan National Basketball League (NBL), where it has won eight championships, the most in league history. The Oilers play in the

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(BAL) in the 2023 season.

History

The club was founded by a group of friends who decided to play basketball together. They started playing pick-up games at courts in Kampala, with former national league players joining. Later, Justus Mugisha became head coach and suggested the team joined a basketball league. In 2011, the team was pitched to the director of oil company City Oil and the team was founded as City Oilers. The team started in the NBL Division III in 2011. Later, the team promoted to the

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, which it would win eight straight years from 2014. Additionally, the team made several continental appearances, including the 2009 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. The team played in the first round of the

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where it finished the group play 2-0 but eventually withdrew before the start of the Elite 16. The following year, City Oilers successfully qualified for the

2023 BAL season The 2023 BAL season, also known as BAL Season 3, is the third season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The season began on 11 March 2023 and will end on 27 May 2023, with the playoffs and finals being played in the BK Arena in Kigali, whic ...

after beating

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in the third place game of the Road to BAL.

Honours

National Basketball League *Winners (8): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,

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Mister City Oilers!
John Vianney Nsimbe (

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), 13 February 2020. Accessed 29 June 2021.

In international competition

In the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions

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(1 appearance) ::

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– Ninth Place

In the Basketball Africa League

The City Oilers have played in the

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three times, qualifying in

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Personnel

Current roster

The following is the City Oilers roster for the 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments:City Oilers
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Notable players

Jimmy Enabu Jimmy Abraham Enabu (born 17 April 1988) is a Ugandan professional basketball player. He currently plays for the City Oilers club of the NBL. He started his career with the Knight Riders basketball team from Entebbe in 2007. Enabu moved to City ...

Kami Kabange Kami Kabange (born 2 July 1984) is a Congolese-born naturalized Rwandan basketball player. Currently he plays for REG BBC and . Standing at , he plays as center. Early life Born in Likasi, Kabange started playing basketball at a young age, inspi ...

Stanley Ocitti Stanley Ocitti (sometimes referred to as Stanley Ochaya Ocitti) (born 28 May 1980) is a Ugandan former professional basketball player. He played for the Aomori Watts Sports Club of the bj league in Japan. Ocitti is one of Uganda's most prominen ...

* James Okello * Stephen Omony *

Robinson Opong Robinson Odoch Opong (born 10 May 1989) is a Ugandan professional basketball player who last played for Rivers Hoopers of the Nigerian Premier League (NPL) and the Basketball Africa League (BAL). He also plays for the Uganda national basketball ...

A'Darius Pegues A'Darius Lamar Pegues (born March 21, 1988) is an American-born Ugandan basketball player who last played for Patriots BBC. Standing at , he plays as center. Career In November 2019, Pegues signed with Rwandan club Patriots BBC to play in the ...

References

External links

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