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BUL Jinja FC

Ugandan association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ16837082 ↗
Source-derived summary

BIDCO Uganda Limited Jinja Football Club, also BUL Jinja FC, is a Ugandan football club from Jinja, in the Eastern Region of the country. The club is owned by the Jinja-based BIDCO Uganda Limited. They play in the top tier division of Ugandan football, the Uganda Premier League and play there home games at FUFA Technical Centre in Njeru.

History

The club was founded in 2006-2007 as Bidco Co. departmental competitions with an intent of corporate social responsibility to market and promote Bidco Products, through which they developed the idea of joining Fufa associated leagues.

The team played in the FUFA Super League for the first time in 2011 and finished thirteenth out of sixteen teams in the league that season.

Achievements

Bul FC won the 2007-2008 Jinja division one league title.

The BUL FC Junior Team crowned champions of the FUFA Juniors League in the 2018 - 2019 season.

Bul FC defeated Vipers Soccer club to win the Stanbic Uganda cup edition of 2021 - 2022

The club had a first appearance in a CAF competition: making their debut in the 2022 CAF confederations cup Preliminary round with Future FC of Egypt.

Management

Initial club management was spearheaded by football fanatic Rupesh and Rao Kodey then company treasurer and managing director respectively.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “BUL Jinja FC” is ugandan association football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jinja, Ugandan and association, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007, 2011, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jinja, Ugandan and association is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “ugandan association football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16837082. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2008.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow BUL Jinja FC primary sources, BUL Jinja FC archive and Jinja research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “BUL Jinja FC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.