According to the progress of the current refurbishment operations, the Uganda Peoples Defense Force Engineering Brigade is on course to accomplish the phase of the works.
Namboole Stadium handover set for June 2023
Mandela National Stadium better known as Namboole is on schedule to be handed over in June, 2023.
Namboole stadium refurbishment
Namboole has been out of bounds to the general public since May 2019 after Confederation of African Federation (CAF) and Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) disqualified the venue from hosting the 2022 world cup qualifiers and any other international football game, saying the facility is substandard.
Then Covid-19 struck and the Ministry of Health turned the facility into a reception center.
After the pandemic, the UPDF Engineering Brigade has since been refurbishing the facility to a worthy standard.
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CAF Approved Standards for a National Stadium
· Among the key requirements include the pitch condition emphasizing that the surface whether artificial turf or not, must be green and marked clearly in white.
· Uniform signage system around the stadium to entry and exit, operational gates.
· For evening matches, the floodlights capacity should be a minimum of 1 200 Lux provided all over the pitch, covering uniformly every area of the playing field.
Installation of stadium specific sign-age from media entrance to all the various facilities for the media.
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Installation of sign-age around the medical facility and throughout the stadium to notify supporters.
· A doping room which must be near the teams’ dressing rooms and must be “inaccessible to any person that is not involved with the doping control process”. It must be equipped with a television set, a refrigerator equipped with non-alcoholic drinks, sealed mineral water bottles, waste-paper bin for bottles, a ventilator and sufficient seating for at least eight people.
· The toilet area must be immediately next to the doping control room with direct private access
· Numbered bucket seats fixed to the floor as well as a safety certificate from the concerned authorities in which they will set the permitted capacity for the stadium together with detailed terms and conditions that the stadium management must comply with in order to operate the stadium at its permitted capacity.
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