Cheetah Fotball Club is a Ghanaian

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club based in

Kasoa Kasoa, formerly known as Odupongkpehe, is a peri-urban town in the Awutu Senya East Municipal District of the Central region of Ghana. Location Kasoa has territory in 1 of the 20 Metropolitan, Municipalities and Districts (MMADs) in the Central ...

in the Central Region of Ghana. The club currently competes in Central Region Zone of the Division Two League which is the third tier of the football league system in Ghana, and the MTN FA Cup.

History

In 2009, Abdul-Hayye Yartey, a Ghanaian sports executive and entrepreneur founded the club in Kasoa as a juvenile club. The club started scouting young prospects across Ghana and recruiting them to form a football club. In 2021, the club was named on the top 10 clubs in Africa with the most outgoing transfers of players in FIFA's 2020 Global Transfer Market Report. As of 2021, the team plays in the Central Regional Football Association (CRFA) Division Two League. Some of the club's most notable players are

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and Alhassan Wakaso amongst others.

Grounds

In August 2020, the club began the construction of an

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for the use of the club. In June 2021 the club inaugurated as AstroTurf pitch which is reportedly the biggest in Ghana, called the Yartel Okoso park (The Predators Den) in Senya Beraku. From the inception of the club in 2009 till 2020, the club used the Kasoa pitch as their home venue.

Management

Notable players

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References

External links

Cheetah FC
on Footballdatabse.eu
Cheetah FC
on Global Sports Archive
Official Website
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