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David GOMBE
Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC will face Mauritania’s FC Nouadhibou in the CAF Champions League Preliminary round.
The Venoms learnt their path at the draw held in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday afternoon.
Vipers will host the first leg between 4th to 6th September 2026 with the return fixture slated for 11th to 13th of the same month in Mauritania.
The aggregate winner between Vipers and FC Nouadhibou and will face the winner between Libya’s Swehly FC or Zanzibar’s KVZ SC in the next round.
FC Nouadhibou is a Mauritanian professional football club based in the commercial centre of Nouadhibou. They compete in the Ligue 1 Mauritania, the top flight of Mauritanian football.
The club was founded in 1999 and host their games at the 10,300 seater Ground
Stade Municipal de Nouadhibou, Nouadhibou Stadium.
They are 14-time Mauritania champions having won it in 2001, 2002, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26.
Their first appearance at a continental competition was in 2003 and was in the preliminary round, the club faced Niger’s AS Niamey and the score was 2–2 in two of its matches and lost under the away goals rule in Niamey.
Vipers last reached the group stage of the CAF Champions League during the 2022/23 season after eliminating TP Mazembe in the final preliminary round.
The club qualified for the group stage of the 2019-20 CAF Confederation Cup after defeating Triangle FC of Zimbabwe 4–3 on aggregate in the play-off round.
