Known Results (before introduction of league) Express 17-0 Kitegombwa Express 15-0 Luo Union Express 14-0 Bayinda
NB: unofficial championship 1.Express Other participants: Bitumastic Nsambya Masaka Coffee Jinja
NB: unofficial championship 1.Bitumastic Other participants: Express Prisons Nsambya Masaka Coffee Jinja
National League Top Final Table: 1.Prisons 18 24 2.Simba SC 18 21 3.Coffee 18 21 Other participants: Express Nsambya Bitumastic Gangama United Masaka Mbarara Jinja KCC (founded 1963) made their debut in the first division of the Kampala and District Football League (KDFL), in which other clubs included: Express FC, Army FC, Prisons, KDS, Railways, UEB and Nsambya.
Known Results Express 14-0 Kilembe Kilembe 1-0 Express 1.Prisons Other participants included: Simba SC Coffee Express Mbarara Gangama United Nsambya Kilembe Masaka
Top Final Table: 1.Coffee 2.Police (on goal difference) Other participants included: Simba SC Express Prisons Mbarara Nsambya Gangama United
KCC (who did not enter the recently established National Football League) were relegated to the second level of the KDFL. However, the KDFL was scrapped and a second national level was sent up, in which KCC entered along with (among others) Nsambya and NIC. 1.Simba SC Other participants included: Coffee Express Prisons Nsambya Gangama United
League not completed. Standings at abandonment: 1.Simba SC 2.Lint Marketing Board Other participants included: Coffee Express Prisons Nsambya Gangama United
League not completed. Standings at abandonment: 1.Simba SC Other participants included: Lint Marketing Board Coffee Express Prisons Nsambya Gangama United Promoted: KCC
Top Final Table: 1.Express 14 22 2.KCC 14 21 Other participants: Simba SC Coffee Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Gangama United Lint Marketing Board Nsambya
Top Final Table: 1.Express 27 2.KCC 26 Other participants included: Coffee Simba SC Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Gangama United Nsambya
Top Final Table: 1.KCC 35 2.Express 34 Other participants included: Gangama United Coffee Kilembe Nsambya Simba SC Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Lint Marketing Board Police Mbarara Prisons
Express beat Simba 2-0 in a crucial league match but were subsequently banned for allegedly being involving in anti-government activities, by the Governor of the Central Province, Col. Abdallah Nasur, unhappy about his side's loss. The ban was only lifted in 1979 after the regime of Idi Amin had ended. 1.Kampala City Council Other participants included: Simba SC Coffee Police Kilembe Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Gangama United Nsambya Express (banned) Promoted: NIC
Top Final Table: 1.Simba SC 2.KCC Other participants included: Nsambya NIC Express Coffee Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Gangama United Police (relegated) Black Rhino (relegated) Promoted: Nakivubo Boys (SC Villa) In promotion play-offs, Mount of the Moon FC (an army side) pulled out guns and shot randomly after Nakivubo Boys (SC Villa) scored a winning goal.
1.Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) 2.NIC Other participants included: KCC Nsambya Express Simba SC Nile Breweries Jinja Coffee Nakivubo Villa
NB: Express returned to the league this season. Top Final Table: 1.Nile Breweries Jinja 2.Nytil Jinja 3.KCC Other participants included: Simba SC Express Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Coffee Nakivubo Villa Nsambya Tobacco NIC Police Bell
1.KCC Other participants: Simba SC Express Nakivubo Villa Nile Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Bank of Uganda Nytil Tobacco Spear Motors Coffee (relegated) Nsambya (relegated) Bell(relegated) Police (relegated) NIC (relegated) Gangama Unitef (relegated) Lint Marketing Board (relegated) Kilembe (relegated) Jinja (relegated) Millers (relegated) KCC obtained the league title thanks to Uganda Commercial Bank conceding a walk-over in a late league match; in return, KCC conceded a walk-over to UCB in the semi-final of the Kakungulu Cup; however, UCB lost the cup final to Coffee after a penalty shoot-out.
'Super Ten'
SC Villa unbeaten champions, dropping only 4 points.
1.SC Villa 18 32
2.Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala)
Other participants:
KCC
Express
Nile
Simba SC
Olympic Motors (presumably identical to Spear Motors)
Tobacco
Nytil
Bank of Uganda
Second Level ('Regular') included bottom-10 of 1981;
Promoted: Millers, Coffee, Nsambya
[Aug 13] SC Villa 1-1 Millers 1.KCC Other participants included: SC Villa Simba SC Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Express Bank of Uganda Nile Millers Coffee Nsambya (relegated)
Known Result
Express 2-1 SC Villa [only loss Villa]
Top Final Table:
1.SC Villa 30 24 5 1 74-19 53 Champions
2.KCC 30 21 7 2 67-19 49
3.Express 30 14 9 7 49-34 37
Other participants included:
Simba SC
Nile
State House
Bank of Uganda
UCI
Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala)
Coffee
Lint Marketing Board (relegated)
Second Level
Results from September 1984
Nsambya FC 18-0 Wembley Reunion
Nsambya FC 1-0 Spear Motors
Nsambya FC awd Foods FC [awarded 2-0 to Nsyamba after Foods dns]
NB: Nsambya had to win their remaining 3 league matches with a total
goal difference of +20 in order to overtake Cooperative and
qualify for the next stage (presumably this refers to the second
level league and/or a promotion competition), and managed to do
so thanks to fixing that 18-0 against Wembley; both Nsambya and
Cooperative finished their program with 66 points.
Nsambya FC beat State House 2-1 in promotion playoffs
1.KCC Other participants included: Express Simba SC Nsambya SC Villa Coffee State House Nile UCI Bank of Uganda Uganda Grain Milling (withdrew)
Top Final Table:
1.SC Villa
2.Tobacco (Bugembe)
3.Coffee
Other participants included:
Simba SC
KCC
Express
Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala)
Nile
Nsambya
Uganda Airlines
UCI
Final Rounds included:
Airlines 1-0 KCC
Tobacco 12-0 Airlines
NB: thanks to Tobacco's final round win of 12-0 they dislodged Coffee
from 2nd place
In promotion play-offs, KK Cosmos scored 6 goals in 25 minutes against
Gomba Motors, leading to crowd trouble by Mbarara United fans
Top of Final Table: 1.SC Villa 2.Express Other participants included: Tobacco (Bugembe) Nsambya KCC Nile Simba SC Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) UCI Coffee KK Cosmos Maroons FC (Luzira) (relegated)
Top of Final Table: 1.SC Villa 2.Express Other participants included: KCC Nsambya SC Villa Nile Tobacco (Bugembe) Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Coffee State House UCI
[Jul 22] Express 2-1 SC Villa Top of Final Table: 1.SC Villa 22 16 4 2 47-10 36 Champions 2.Express 22 14 7 1 37-21 35 Other participants included: KCC Simba SC Nsambya Coffee Uganda Airlines Nile UCI Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Tobacco (Bugembe)
1.SC Villa Other participants included: KCC Express Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala) Coffee Nile Simba SC Nsambya UCI FC Entebbe Bell Breweries Uganda Airlines
NB: season not finished, but as more than 75% of matches
were played, ranking at abandonment was declared final.
Top of Final Table:
1.KCC 19 35 Champions
2.SC Villa 19 33
Other participants included:
Express
Nsambya
UCI
Uganda Airlines
Coffee
Simba SC
Nile
Bell Breweries
FC Entebbe
Arua Young Stars
Uganda Commercial Bank (Kampala)
'Old-school' corporations like Lint Marketing Board, Coffee Marketing Board, BAT Uganda, Uganda Cement, Uganda Commercial Bank, Uganda Airlines and Spear Motors all played in the league at one stage.
Partial sources: Express FC, KCC, SC Villa
Thanks to Barry Baker
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