Berry Ladies Football Club is a Ghanaian professional
women's football club based in Accra in the
Greater Accra Region
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...
of
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
. The club features in the Southern Zone of the
Ghana Women’s Premier League
The Ghana Women’s Premier League (GWPL), currently known as the Malta Guinness Women's Premier League for sponsorship reasons, was launched in 2012 as the National Women's League (NWL) and is the top division league for women's football in Gha ...
. The club was previously known as Halifax Ladies Football Club or as Halifax Soccer Academy Ladies until 2020.
History
Berry Ladies (then Halifax Ladies Football Club or Halifax Soccer Academy Ladies) was based in
Nungua
Nungua is a town in Krowor Municipal District in the Greater Accra Region of southeastern Ghana near the coast.[Gifty Oware-Aboagye
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. The name of the club was then changed to Berry Ladies. The club was relocated from Nungua to
Madina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
still within the Greater Accra Region.
2019-2022
They won the
Zone A to qualify for the Regional Women's Zonal playoff and champions of champions (championship final for the GARFA Women's League). They won the championship final and won the Regional Women's Zonal playoff for the Southern Zone to qualify for the Ghana Women's Premier League for the first time in the club's history.
2020 - Till Date
Before the start of their first top-flight season, the club appointed
Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo, a Ghanaian football coach and former player who played as a defender for the Ghana women's national football team. In their debut season (2020–21 season) in the GWPL, they placed second in the Southern Zone behind
Hasaacas Ladies
Sekondi Hasaacas Ladies F.C. is a Ghanaian professional women's football club based in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The club features in the Ghana Women’s Premier League. The club was formed as a women's club by Sekondi Hasa ...
. Their second-place finish earned them qualification into the Ghana Women's Super Cup. In the 2022/2023 season, they finished fourth in the Southern-Zone of the Ghana Women's Premier League under their new interim coach, Coach Paul Freeman Amponsah. Coach Paul Freeman Amponsah was then appointed as the new Head Coach of the Club ahead of the 2023 Ghana Women’s Super Cup League. Berry Ladies FC finished
3rd place
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (disambiguation)
* Third Avenue (disambiguation)
* Hig ...
in the 2023 Ghana Women’s Super Cup for the first time in the history of the club.
Grounds
The club plays their home matches at the Madina AstroTurf.
Players
2023/2024 Season Roster
Titles
Here are trophies won by Berry Ladies
Management
Club Owner & CEO -
Gifty Oware-Aboagye
Gifty Oware-Mensah (born 4 July 1986) is a Ghanaian politician and currently the deputy executive director of the National Service Scheme in Ghana. She has responsibility for administration and finance, helping to manage an annual personnel pool o ...
General Manager - Victor Elias Seshie
Sporting Director - Kwasi Osei Danso Ofori-Atta
Director -
Paa Kwesi Todd
Coaches - Reginald Asante, Paul Freeman Amponsah
Head, Digital Marketing - Samuel Kwame Boadu
Welfare Manager – Aicha Amoako Boukari Denteh
Kits & Equipment Manager – Gideon Sosu
Affiliation
Berry Ladies announced ahead of the 2023/2024 season its partnership with Berekum Chelsea Football Club to become their women's team for the sports outfit
References
External links
Official WebsiteBerry Ladies FCon Twitter
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Women's football clubs in Ghana