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Elmina Sharks F.C.
Elmina Sharks F.C. is a football club from Ghana based in Elmina, Central Region. The club is competing in the 2018 Ghanaian Premier League. Home games are played at Nduom Sports Stadium. History Elmina Sharks F.C. was born out of Coconut Grove Beach Resort in 1999. Elmina Sharks was formerly known as Coconut Grove Sharks FC and the team started as division one league team. The team was in the division two league for seven years and later on moved to division one in 2011. In the 2016 season, the team won promotion to the Ghana Premier League. Elmina Sharks played two and a half seasons in the Ghana Premier League, finishing mid-table in 2017 and failing to make the playoff stage in 2019, with the 2018 season suspended due to corruption. In both the 2019–20 season and 2020–21 season, Benjamin Bernard Boateng finished as the club's top goal scorer. 2025 Sanctions and Fines In March 2025, 5 of the club's officials were fined GHS 10,000 each and banned for the rest of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nduom Sports Stadium
The Nduom Sports Stadium is a stadium in Elmina. It is the home venue of Elmina Sharks F.C., a Ghanaian Premier League side owned by Dr Nduom's Groupe Nduom (GN) conglomerate. The stadium was one of the two venues (along with the Cape Coast Sports Stadium Cape Coast Sports Stadium is a Multi-purpose stadium, multi-use stadium in Cape Coast, Central Region (Ghana), Central Region, Ghana. It is used mostly for Association football, football matches and is the home stadium of Ebusua Dwarfs. Th ...) of the 2017 West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup of Nations, which was held in September 2017. References Football venues in Ghana Elmina Sharks F.C. {{Ghana Premier League venues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2019–20 Ghana Premier League
The 2019–20 Ghana Premier League was the 64th season of top professional association football league in Ghana. The season started on 28 December 2019. 18 teams compete in the league with each club playing each other twice, home and away, with the three clubs at the bottom of the league relegated to the Division One League. Season overview With 18 clubs participating in the league, this marked the first time since 1980 that more than 16 clubs competed in the top division of Ghanaian football. King Faisal and Great Olympics were readmitted after separate court cases over unhappiness about their relegation from the top-flight in previous seasons. During a council meeting in October 2019 before the season began, the number of relegated teams was reduced from five to three. The GFA announced that the league was suspended on March 15, 2020, in the middle of match-week 15, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. On 31 May, the league was further suspended until at least 31 June. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football Clubs In Ghana
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called ''football'' include association football (known as ''soccer'' in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league, rugby league football; and rugby union, rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes". There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mallam Yahaya
Mallam Yahaya (born 31 December 1974) is a Ghanaian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder or forward. He made 12 appearances for the Ghana national team scoring once. International career Yahaya was member of the Ghana national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg .... Managerial career Following spells as coach of Nzema Kotoko and King Faisal Babies, Yahaya was announced as manager of New Edubiase United in November 2016. He resigned in May 2017. References External links * * Profile Waldhof 1974 births Living people Footballers from Kumasi Ghanaian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Ghana men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Ghana Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nii Lamptey
Nii Odartey Lamptey (born 10 December 1974) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer and current manager of Elmina Sharks as well as the proprietor of a school in Accra called Glow-Lamp International School. During his career he played as a striker from 1990 until 2008 notably for Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Coventry City and the Ghana national football team. He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time. Lamptey has been used as a byword for a cautionary tale of putting too much pressure on young players to be successful. He also played for Anderlecht, Venezia, Boca Juniors, Unión Santa Fe, Ankaragücü, União Leiria, Greuther Fürth, Shandong Luneng, Al-Nassr, Asante Kotoko and Jomo Cosmos. Early years Nii Lamptey was born in Tema, but grew up in the two biggest Ghanaian cities, Accra and Kumasi. He had a miserable childhood, as his pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joachim Yaw
Joachim Yaw Acheampong (born 2 November 1973 in Accra), known as Yaw, is a Ghanaian retired Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career In his country Yaw represented Ashanti Gold SC, Goldfields Obuasi (1990–94), Power F.C., Power FC (1999–2000) and King Faisal Babes (2001). Abroad he played for IFK Norrköping in Sweden (1994–95), Spain's Real Sociedad (1995–97) and Hércules CF (1997–98) and Samsunspor (1998) and Yimpaş Yozgatspor (2001–02) from Turkey. Yaw retired from professional football at the age of only 28. International career Yaw was part of the Ghana national football team, Ghanaian Olympic team who won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He featured in five of six games in the tournament. Yaw gained 18 Cap (sport), caps with the full side, during five years. He appeared in two Africa Cup of Nations editions. References External links * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yaw, Joachim 1973 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kobina Amissah
Kobina Amissah (born 21 July 1973) is a Ghanaian football manager who currently coaches Bibiani Gold Stars. He previously coached Elmina Sharks, Sekondi Hasaacas and Berekum Chelsea. Career He served as head coach for Elimina Sharks in their inaugural Ghana Premier League season, the 2017 Ghanaian Premier League The 2017 Ghanaian Premier League is the 61st season of top professional association football in Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to t .... In July 2021, Amissah led Bibiani Gold Stars to the Ghana Premier League after winning the Ghana Division One League Zone Two with 62 points and two games to spare. References External links * Living people 1973 births Ghanaian football managers Elmina Sharks F.C. managers Berekum Chelsea F.C. managers Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. managers {{Ghana-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Benjamin Bernard Boateng
Benjamin Bernard Boateng (born 22 November 2000) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who used to play as an attacking midfielder for Ghana Premier League side Elmina Sharks. He currently plays for Smouha SC Smouha Sporting Club (), simply known as Smouha, is an Egyptian sports club based in Alexandria and the biggest club in the world in space and number of athletes, with 168 feddans in the Smouha city branch, and 208 feddans in the Borg El Arab ci ..., where he is on loan from Al-Ittihad Alexandria SC as a Secondary striker and centre forward. Career Boateng started his career with Elmina Sharks in 2017. References External links * Living people 2000 births Men's association football midfielders Ghanaian men's footballers Elmina Sharks F.C. players Ghana Premier League players Smouha SC players Al Ittihad Alexandria Club players 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen {{Ghana-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2020–21 Ghana Premier League
The 2020–21 Ghana Premier League is the 65th season of top professional association football league in Ghana. The season started on 14 November 2020. 18 teams were competing in the league with each club playing each other twice, home and away, with the three clubs at the bottom of the league relegated to the Division One League. Hearts of Oak became champion for the first time since twelve years. Season overview With 18 clubs participating in the league, this marked the second time since 1980 that more than 16 clubs competed in the top division of Ghanaian football. The GFA announced that the league was suspended on 15 March 2020, in the middle of match-week 15, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. On 31 May, the league was further suspended until at least 31 June. On 30 June, the FA had a meeting and cancelled the league due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A meeting was held on 27 August 2020 to determine the start and logistics of the 2020–21 season. The Ghana Football A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. Website The RSSSF website contains football-related statistics in the form of lists without commentary and it is maintained by volunteer contributors. It is considered one of "the most complete" publicly available statistical football databases in the world, and has virtually every piece of historical information. This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Big 8 (Usenet)#Hierarchies, Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elmina
Elmina ( Fante: ''Edina'') is a town and the capital of the Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District on the south coast of Ghana in the Central Region. It is situated on a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cape Coast.Straight line distances from: Daft Logic; Elmina was the first European settlement in West Africa and it has a population of 33,576 people, as of 2013. The current Municipality chief of Elmina is Solomon Ebo Appiah. When the Portuguese, after first coming in contact with the Gold Coast, struck an agreement with the King of Elmina to build the São Jorge da Mina Castle in the 1470s, the settlement grew to become an important centre of commerce and trade in the region. Nowadays, Elmina shows strong influences from Europe in its culture and people. Etymology Prior to the arrival of the Portuguese, the town was originally called Anomansah ("perpetual" or "inexhaustible drink") from its position on the peninsula between the Benya lagoon and the sea. It eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Division Two League, Ghana
The Division Two League is the second tier football league in Ghana. It is two tiers below the Ghana Premier League. The top teams after series of games are promoted to the upper tier and lower teams are relegated League structure The league is divided into regional zones with a zone in each of the ten regions of the country. Each zone is further divided into two groups to further reduce the distance between the participating teams in a zone. Winners from each zone within the regions play a middle league. Some play sub-middle league in order to qualify for the National Division One League. ;2011–12 teams ; Brong Ahafo Football Association. ''Zone A'' * Berekum Berlin FC * Mim Freedom Fighters * Techiman Kenten AC Milan ''Zone B'' * Japeikrom Asuo PRU * Nsoatreman FC (Nsoatre) * Techiman GSP United ; Central Regional Football Association. * Abreshia United * Adansi Praso WAECO FC * Agona Swedru Amanpong FC * Cape Coast Nadel Ahli Rovers * Ekotsi Hi-Kings FC (also listed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
