Liberty Professionals Football Club is a
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 ...
ian professional
football club based in
Dansoman,
Accra.
History
Liberty Professionals, was founded in 1996 by Accra-based businessmen Felix Ansong and Alhaji Sly Tetteh. The club was one of the earliest in Ghana to adopt a professional approach to the management of a
football club. The club started their first season in the
Poly Tank Division One League, but were promoted to the
Ghana Telecom Premier League within their second season in 1998. Since then the club has consistently maintained respectable league match performances. As at 2020, the team had an estimated net worth of $4.31million.
In July 2021, the club was relegated to the
Ghana Division One League at the end of the
2020–21 season, after 22 years in the Ghana Premier League since gaining promotion in 1998.
Performance in CAF competitions
*
West African Club Championship (UFOA Cup): 1 appearance
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2009 – Third
Stadium
Their home stadium is
Carl Reindorf Park which can seat up to 2,000 people. In April 2021, during the latter part of the
2020–21 season they switched to WAFA (
West African Football Academy
West African Football Academy (WAFA) Sporting Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based near Sogakope in the Volta Region that was founded by Feyenoord from Rotterdam. They are competing in the Ghana Premier League. The 2016–17 seaso ...
) Stadium in Sogakope.
Current squad
Notable players
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Academy
Liberty Professionals have three youth academies in Kenya, Togo and Ghana.
Michael Essien played for the Ghana Academy for the 1998–99 season.
Mubarak Alhassan
Mubarak Alhassan (born 6 July 2002) is Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for ENPPI. Alhassan started his senior career with Liberty Professionals before moving to Granada CF in 2020.
Career
Liberty Professi ...
, an academy graduate joined
Granada CF
Granada Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. (), known simply as Granada, is a Spanish football club based in the city of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, that plays in the Segunda División, after being relegated from La Liga in the 2021 ...
in 2020.
Abraham Wayo an academy graduate ended the 2020–21 season as the club's top goal scorer and later secured a deal to
Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1
The Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 (; ar, الرابطة المحترفة الأولى لكرة القدم) was previously called the Tunisian National Championship between 1956 and 1994. is the top division football tournament in Tunisia und ...
club
Étoile Sportive du Sahel
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Places
;France
* Charles de Gaulle – Étoile, station of the Paris Métro
* Étoile-Saint-Cyrice, commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in France
* Étoile-sur-Rhône, commune in the Drôme department in France
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.
Managers
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Sellas Tetteh
Sellas Tetteh Teivi (born 12 December 1956) is a Ghanaian professional football coach and former player.
Early and personal life
Sellas Tetteh Teivi was born on 12 December 1956 in Adabraka. His father was Mensah Teivi, a mechanic, and his mothe ...
(1996–2001)
*
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian football player and coach.
International career
Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup.
Coa ...
(2002)
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Sellas Tetteh
Sellas Tetteh Teivi (born 12 December 1956) is a Ghanaian professional football coach and former player.
Early and personal life
Sellas Tetteh Teivi was born on 12 December 1956 in Adabraka. His father was Mensah Teivi, a mechanic, and his mothe ...
(2009–2010)
* Joseph Emmanuel Sarpong (Jan 1, 2011 – July 8, 2012)
* George Lamptey (July 1, 2012–Oct 1, 2016)
*
Michael Osei (May 2017 –February 2018)
* David Ocloo (December 2019 –April 2021)
* Andy Sinason &
Sellas Tetteh
Sellas Tetteh Teivi (born 12 December 1956) is a Ghanaian professional football coach and former player.
Early and personal life
Sellas Tetteh Teivi was born on 12 December 1956 in Adabraka. His father was Mensah Teivi, a mechanic, and his mothe ...
(interim) (April 2021 –)
References
External links
Ghana-pedia webpage – Liberty Professionals FC
{{Ghana Premier League
Association football clubs established in 1996
Football clubs in Ghana
Football clubs in Accra
1996 establishments in Ghana
Sports clubs in Ghana