Mukura Victory Sports F.C.

Mukura Victory Sports et Loisirs
Full name	Mukura Victory Sports et Loisirs Football Club
Founded	1963; 62 years ago
Ground	Stade Huye; Butare, Rwanda
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Jean Damascène Maniraguha
Manager	Sébastien Ndayishimiye
League	Rwanda Premier League
2023–24	4th
Website	http://www.mukuravictorysport.rw
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

Competition	Matches	W	D	L	GF	GA
African Cup Winners' Cup	12	3	1	8	9	25
CAF Cup	4	1	1	2	2	4
CAF Confederation Cup	6	2	3	1	2	3
Total	22	6	5	11	13	32

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
1988	African Cup Winners' Cup	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; some limited exceptions apply. 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.