Uganda Breweries Limited, through their brand Pilsner Lager, have today announced a new partnership deal with the StarTimes Uganda Premier League to award the competition’s best players and coaches.
The deal was announced during a press conference held at Uganda Breweries headquarters in Luzira. Pilsner will inject 450 million Uganda Shillings in the Uganda Premier League for a period of 3 years.
The Beer Company will now take over the naming rights for the Man of the Match and the Player of the Month. The awards will be named ‘Pilsner man of the match award’ and the monthly awards will be named ‘Pilsner player of the month award’ and ‘Pilsner coach of the month award’.
The Pilsner Man of the Match will be awarded Ugx 100,000 while Coach of the month and player of the month will each be awarded with Ugx 1,000,000.
At the event, Vipers Coach Javier Martinez Espinoza was crowned the Pilsner StarTimes Uganda Premier League Coach of the Month for October 2018 while Kirinya Jinja SSS FC’s Joel Madondo was voted the Player of the Month.
Pilsner was represented by the Company’s head of Beer, Estella Muzito while the UPL was represented by Chairman Arinaitwe Rugyendo.
The company will also get their advertisement boards on the different match venues.
Pilsner were the sponsors of the inaugural FUFA Super 8 trophy with Ugx 90m that was won by KCCA FC in August this year.
They join Chinese Pay TV Company StarTimes among the sponsors of Uganda Premier League.