Mukura Victory Sports F.C.

Mukura Victory Sports et Loisirs

Full name	Mukura Victory Sports et Loisirs Football Club
Founded	1963; 61 years ago (1963)
Ground	Stade Huye Butare, Rwanda
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Jean Damascène Maniraguha
Manager	Sébastien Ndayishimiye
League	Rwanda Premier League
2021–22	5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Mukura Victory Sports et Loisirs Football Club, commonly known as Mukura Victory Sports or simply Mukura, is an association football club from Butare (a city sometimes known as Huye), Rwanda. Founded in May 1963, the club currently competes in the Rwanda Premier League and plays its home games at Stade Huye.

Mukura victory sports et Loisirs football club in February had stopped APR FC 51 unbeaten games in Rwanda premier league.

History

They won the Rwandan Cup on August 12, 2018, after beating Rayon Sports (3–1) on penalty shootout. The regular time had ended on 0–0 draw.

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Rwanda National Football League:
  • winners:^[1] 1992, 1998, 1999
• Rwandan Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1978, 1986, 1990, 1992, 2018^[2]
  • Runners-up (4): 1987, 1999, 2005, 2009

Performance in CAF & CECAFA competitions

CAF competitions

As of 27 March 2021

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1982	African Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Pan African	0-4	0-4	0-8
1987	African Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Tersana	1-1	0-5	1-6
1988	African Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	Mbabane Highlanders	5-1	0-3	5-4
		First round	Gor Mahia	0-1	0-1	0-2
1993	African Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	Pamba	1-2	1-0	2-2 (a)
1994	CAF Cup	First round	AS Bantous	0-0	1-2	1-2
2000	CAF Cup	First round	Awassa Kenema	1-0	0-2	1-2
2001	African Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Atlético Olympic	1-0	0-3	1-3
2018/19	CAF Confederation Cup	Preliminary round	Free State Stars	1-0	0-0	1-0
		First round	El Hilal SC El Obeid	0-0	0-0	0-0 (5-4 p)
		Play-off round	Al-Hilal Club Omdurman	1-0	0-3	1-3

CECAFA competitions

Season	Round	Club	Score	Aggregate
2019 Kagame Interclub Cup	Group round	Azam	0-1	4th place
	Group round	Bandari	2-2
	Group round	KCCA	1-2

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player[3] 1 DF  RWA Mutijima Janvier 2 FW  RWA Ndizeye Innocent 3 FW  RWA Munezero Dieudonné 4 GK  RWA Ingabire Aimé Regis 5 DF  RWA Umwungeri Patrick 6 MF  RWA Niyonkuru Ramadhan 7 FW  RWA Iradukunda Jean Bertrand 8 FW  NGA Lucky Emmanuel 9 MF  BDI Iradukunda Barthelemy 10 GK  RWA Bikorimana Gérard 11 DF  RWA Rugirayabo Hassan 12 DF  RWA Manzi Aimable

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 FW  GHA Muniru Abdul Rahman 14 FW  NGA Nwosu Samuel Chukwudi 15 DF  RWA Biraboneye Aphrodis 16 MF  RWA Mbazumutima Mamadou 17 DF  RWA Senzira Mansour 18 DF  RWA Ngirimana Alex 19 DF  CMR Olih Jacques 20 DF  RWA Uwihoreye Jean Paul 21 MF  RWA Mutabazi Hakim 22 FW  RWA Ndayisenga Ramadhan 23 MF  RWA Nwatli Evode 24 DF  RWA Tuyishimire Eric

Technical staff

^[4]

Name	Position
Rodolfo Zapata(Sacked)	Head coach
Samyr Sanchez	Assistant coach
-	Goalkeepers' Coach
Rwabuneza Richard	Team Doctor
Nshimyumuremyi Baptiste	Team Physio

Management

Name	Position
Nizeyimana Olivier	President resigned
Sakindi Eugène	Vice President
Siboyintore Théodate	Secretary General
Mutemberezi Paulin	Treasurer

Youth academy squad

Mukura have been helping a number of young players of the region to become big names in the country. Among them the former Captain Nshimiyimana Canisius who is the Assistant Coach in the club. Mukura Youth System is made of more than 45 young players from the age of 11 to 18. Gashugi Abdul Kareem,(brother of Mukura former midfielder Djuma Munyaneza) currently playing for Kiyovu SC is another talented product of Mukura Youth System.

Stadium

The Home of Mukura V.S, Stade Huye, is located near the office of Huye District next the national road 1. The 10,000 all-seater stadium hosted the Group B matches of the 2016 Chan. It was constructed in collaboration with the Rwanda Ministry of Sports and Culture and Huye District. It comprises offices, dressing rooms and sports museum.

References

External links

• Mukura Victory Sport
• http://ruhagoyacu.com/spip.php?article6359
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005252/http://www.huye.gov.rw/index.php?id=2261&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4000&cHash=7ebdef762a6abf5a11a71fd1c5909145

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