Lugazi Football Club climaxes season with away victory over Jinja North United | 2023-2024 betPawa big league
2023-2024 betPawa Big League: Match Day 29 Results: Lugazi Football Club climaxed the season on a high note with a 2-0 victory on the road away to Jinja North United at the Kyabazinga stadium, Bugembe in Jinja city. Lethal forward Samuel Ssemugugu struck a brace for the maximum points. Ssemugugu ended the season with 15 […] The post Lugazi Football Club climaxes season with away victory over Jinja North United | 2023-2024 betPawa big league appeared first on Kawowo Sports.
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2023-2024 betPawa Big League:
Match Day 29 Results:
- Jinja North United 0-2 Lugazi
- Kiyinda Boys 4-1 Mbale Heroes
- Kigezi Home Boyz 4-2 Booma
- Onduparaka 3-0 Calvary
- Kataka 0-1 Police
- Kyetume 2-2 Blacks Power
Lugazi Football Club climaxed the season on a high note with a 2-0 victory on the road away to Jinja North United at the Kyabazinga stadium, Bugembe in Jinja city.
Lethal forward Samuel Ssemugugu struck a brace for the maximum points.
Ssemugugu ended the season with 15 goals to his name, one less of the league top scorer, Dickson Niwamanya of Booma Football Club.
Lugazi ended the season in the second place with 53 points off 27 matches (14 wins, 11 draws and 2 losses).
They were three points shy of the overall winners Police Football Club.
Emuran Fahad, Lugazi’s goalkeeper completed the season with the most-clean sheets, 13 to take home the golden gloves.
In the third place was Mbale Heroes won fell 1-4 on the road to Kiyinda Boys at the Bertham city stadium.
The trio; Police, Lugazi and Mbale Heroes were promoted to the StarTimes Uganda Premier League effective the 2024-2025 season.
Other results on final match day:
Champions Police edged Kataka 1-0 at the Mbale Municipal Stadium courtesy of Isaac “Falcao” Ogwang’s lone strike.
Kyetume and Blacks Power ended the season in a stalemate, 2-goals apiece.
Onduparaka defeated visiting Calvary 3-0 at the Green Light Stadium in Arua city during a game where legend Samson Ceaser Okhuti officially retired from the beautiful game as a player.
At the Kabale Municipal stadium, Kigezi Home Boyz beat Booma 4-2.
Relegation:
Kyetume, Jinja North United, Young Elephants and Ndejje University were all relegated to the respective regional leagues.
Ndejje University only featured in the first-round games before requesting to pull out of the league at the start of the second round.
Individual top performers:
The most valuable player (MVP) for the season was Denis Kalanzi of Police Football Club.
The best goalkeeper (Golden Gloves winner was Lugazi’s Fahad Emuran with 13 clean sheets.
Dickson Nuwamanya (Booma Football Club) won the golden boot having scored 16 goals, including a brace against Kigezi Home Boyz on the final day of the season.
Relegated Young Elephants Football took the fair-play award.
betPawa bankrolled the 2023-2024 big league as one of the properties they sponsor under Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA).
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