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The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in men ‘s international football and has done so since the 1950s. The team consists of twenty dollar bill players including the technical team. [ 5 ] The team is nicknamed the Black Stars after the Black Star of Africa in the flag of Ghana. It is governed by the Ghana Football Association ( GFA ) the governing body for football in Ghana and the oldest football association in Africa ( founded in 1920 ). Prior to 1957, the team played as the Gold Coast. The team is a member of both FIFA and CAF.
Although the team qualified for the aged FIFA World Cup for the first gear clock in 2006, they had qualified for four Olympic Games Football Tournaments when the tournament qualifiers was still a full aged national team rival for african teams ; their best accomplishment was the third position at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The team has won the Africa Cup of Nations four times [ 6 ] ( in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982 ) and has been runner-up five times ( in 1968, 1970, 1992, 2010, and 2015 ). After going through 2005 unbeaten, the Ghana national football team won the FIFA Best Mover of the Year Award and reached the second gear round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they became alone the one-third African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, and in 2014 they competed in their third straight World Cup .
history [edit ]
twentieth hundred [edit ]
Black Stars members in the 1960s pose with some of Ghana ‘s consecutive external football trophies won. The Gold Coast Football Association was founded in 1920, succeeded by the Ghana Football Association ( GFA ) in 1957, which affiliated to Confederation of African Football and FIFA the surveil year. On 19 August 1962 at the Accra Sports Stadium, the Black Stars played spanish giants actual Madrid, who were at the time spanish champions, former european champions and intercontinental champions, and drew 3–3. [ 7 ] Charles Kumi Gyamfi became coach in 1961, and the Black Stars won consecutive african Cup of Nations titles, in 1963 and 1965, and achieved their criminal record acquire, 13–2 away to Kenya, shortly after the second of these. They besides reached the concluding of the tournament in 1968 and 1970, losing 1–0 on each juncture, to DR Congo and Sudan respectively. Their domination of this tournament earned the Black Stars team the nicknames of “ the Black Stars of West Africa ” and “ the Black Stars of Africa ” in the 1960s. [ 8 ] The team had no success in FIFA World Cup qualification during this earned run average, and failed to qualify for three consecutive african Cup of Nations in the 1970s, but qualified for the Olympic Games football tournaments, becoming the first team from sub-saharan Africa to qualify for the Games, [ 9 ] reaching the quarter-finals in 1964 and withdrawing after qualifying in 1976 and 1980, later winning the 1982 African cup of nations. After three failures to reach the tournament final, the 1992 African Cup of Nations saw the Black Stars finish second .
twenty-first century [edit ]
prior to the year 2000, disharmony among the squad which finally led to parliamentary and executive intervention to settle issues between two police squad members, Abedi Pele and Anthony Yeboah in the late 1990s, may have played some part in the failure of the team to build on the successes of the national underage teams in the late 1990s, but a modern generation of Black Stars players who went to the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship final became the core of the team at the 2002 African Cup of Nations, and were undefeated for a year in 2005 and reached the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the first base time the team had reached the ball-shaped stage of the tournament. The Black Stars started by succumbing to a 2–0 get the better of to eventual champions Italy, but wins over the Czech Republic ( 2–0 ) and the United States ( 2–1 ) saw them through to the second round, where they lost 3–0 to Brazil. [ 10 ]
Black Stars squad line-up prior to match In 2008, Ghana reached a high rank of 14 according to the FIFA World Rankings. The Black Stars went on to secure a 100 percentage record in their qualification campaign, winning the group and becoming the first African team to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In the concluding tournament, the team competed in Group D with Germany, Serbia and Australia. Ghana reached the cycle of 16 where they played the United States, winning 2–1 in extra time to become the third african state to reach the World Cup quarter-finals. The team then lost to Uruguay in a punishment gunfight in the quarter-finals, having missed a penalty kick in extra time after what would have been the winning finish to send Ghana to the semi-finals was illegally prevented by Luis Suárez ‘s debate handball, who was then shown a red menu for his actions. [ 11 ] In 2013 Ghana became the entirely team in Africa to reach four back-to-back semi-finals of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations doubly, from 1963 and 1970 and from 2008 and 2013. [ 12 ] Ghana was sufficiently highly ranked by FIFA to start their stipulate for the 2014 World Cup in the Second polish. They won the group, and in the pursuit round qualified for the 2014 World Cup finals in November 2013, beating Egypt 7–3 on aggregate in a two-legged play-off. [ 13 ] Ghana was drawn in Group G for the finals, where they faced Germany, Portugal, and the United States. [ 14 ] The World Cup finals ended up in disappointment as Ghana exited in the group stages without winning a match, and with issues of poor people planning and payment bonuses being blamed for the poor people operation, ( although they did manage a 2–2 draw with eventual champions Germany ). Ghana was the only team to not lose to Germany in the tournament .
team double [edit ]
Kits and crest [edit ]
Ghana home shirt : 1970s–1980s The bootleg star is award on the Flag of Ghana and national coat of arms in the center of the national crest. Adopted following the independence of Ghana in 1957, the black leading has always been included in its kits. The
Ghana home football team ( Black Stars ) badge and national hymn Black Stars’ kits were sponsored by Puma SE from 2005, with the deal ending in 2014. [ 15 ] The Black Star kit is used alternatively of the original gold, green, and crimson coloured football kit out based on the colors of the Ghana national flag. The Black Stars have used an all-white and partially blacken football kit which was worn from the years 1957 to 1989 and again from 2006 until December 2014. between 1990 and 2006 the Ghana national three team used the kit in the colors of the national pin of Ghana, with gold, green and crimson used extensively, as in the team ‘s crest and besides known as the Pan-African color. The amber with green and red kit out concept and plan was besides used in the sixties and seventies, and designed with gold and green vertical stripes and bolshevik shoulders. An all black second kit was introduced in 2008 and in 2015, Black Stars ‘ gold-red-green bleached kit and all black biased kit is to be reassigned to the military position of 1st and 2nd kits following the evocation of a embrown with blue sky and gold coloured Black Stars 3rd kit in 2012. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Ghana national football team ‘s football kit for the 2014 FIFA World Cup was ranked as the best kit of the tournament by BuzzFeed. [ 18 ]
Kit suppliers [edit ]
Grounds and training grounds [edit ]
There is no pay back home stadium for the Black Stars. World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches have been played at the Essipong Stadium and Sekondi-Takoradi Stadium in Sekondi-Takoradi, the Len Clay Stadium, Kumasi Sports Stadium and Abrankese Stadium in Kumasi, the Cape Coast Sports Stadium in Cape Coast, the Accra Sports Stadium in the Accra and the Tamale Stadium in Tamale. Some smaller, regional stadium ( stadiums ) were besides used in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations modify and 2004 african Cup of Nations qualification qualifying campaigns. The Black Stars ‘ train facilities and trail grounds are located at Agyeman Badu Stadium, Berekum Sports Stadium in Brong-Ahafo, the Tema Sports Stadium in Tema and the multi-functional Lizzy Sports Complex in Legon. [ 19 ]
Media coverage [edit ]
83 percentage of the ghanaian people are akan -speakers, and about 21 percentage are English-speakers ; match schedules of the Black Stars are broadcast both in English as in the encase of inter-continental matches and in Akan nationally by Adom TV, PeaceFM, AdomFM and HappyFM. During the schedule qualification for the 2014 World Cup home broadcaster GTV, a sub-division of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation ( GBC ), broadcast to the Ghanaian public home qualifiers with away qualifiers broadcast by the satellite television receiver broadcasting corporation Viasat 1. The friendly catch against Turkey in August 2013 was televised by Viasat 1 and the qualifiers for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2018 Inter-Continental Championships are scheduled for public circulate by the corporations GFA television, GBC and Viasat 1. [ 20 ]
Organization and finance [edit ]
The Black Stars as it stands now has no official head because of defile practices by the then president of the united states, Kwesi Nyantakyi. [ 21 ] and vice-president George Afriyie, [ 22 ] with Frank Davis as director of football, and Edward Bawa as treasurer. [ 23 ] The Ghana Football Association ( GFA ) signed a CN¥ 92.2 million ( US $ 15 million ) share with ghanaian state-run vegetable oil and gas exploration corporation, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation ( GNPC ), to sponsor the Black Stars and the renewable contract saw the petroleum and gas exploration corporation become the global headline patron of the Black Stars, with a annual Black Stars musician wage wage bill, [ 24 ] [ 25 ] following the aureate mine corporations Ashanti Goldfields Corporation and Goldfields Ghana Limited ( GGL ), which had been sponsoring the Black Stars since 2005. On 28 August 2013, Ghana Football Association ( GFA ) launched a television groove and named GFA television receiver, frankincense becoming the first football association on the african continent to launch its own television receiver network. The distribution channel has the exclusive rights to broadcast all the Black Stars ‘ matches. In November 2013, the Black Stars signed a 2013–2015 CN¥ 30.6 million ( US $ 5 million ) and an extra classified ad multi-million individual bank sponsorship deal with the ghanaian state-run private trust institution UniBank. [ 28 ]
Supporters [edit ]
Ghana Supporters Union at an AFCON 2015 equal between Ghana and Guinea The Black Stars maintain an average stadium match attendance of 60,000+ and a match attendance high of 80,000+, such as in the encase of the Black Stars ‘ 2010 FIFA World Cup quarter-final against Uruguay in which was attended by 84,017 spectators. [ 29 ] Ghana ‘s meet against England on 29 March 2011 had the largest away following for any association football national team since the re-opening of Wembley Stadium in 2007. [ 30 ] The match was watched by 700 million people around the earth. [ 30 ] Following the team ‘s appearances at the 2006 and 2010 World Cup tournaments they were greeted by respective hundred avid fans dancing and singing at Kotoka International Airport in Accra. [ 31 ]
Rivalries [edit ]
The Black Stars ‘ main footballing competition is with the Super Eagles, the national team of Nigeria. The “ Battle of Supremacy on the Gulf of Guinea “ is between two of the most successful teams on the african continent. [ 32 ] The proximity of the two countries to each other, a dispute between the different association football competitions and wider diplomatic rival for influence across West Africa add to this competition. [ 32 ] [ 33 ]
In books and popular culture [edit ]
Products including books, documentary films, Azonto dances and songs have been made in the name of the Ghana national football team. These may be intended with commercial motives but are focused on previous and future World Cups or Africa Cup of Nations tournaments .
- Books: Several books have been published on the team’s history and participation in major tournaments. These include Ghana, The Rediscovered Soccer Might: Watch Out World!,[34] about the history and performance of the Black Stars and also all the major association football national teams that the Black Stars have ever played against, and The Black Stars of Ghana by Alan Whelan;[35] about Black Stars commencing their progress through the final rounds of the 2010 World Cup and into the quarter-finals.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Results and fixtures [edit ]
The stick to is a tilt of equal results in the last 12 months, american samoa well as any future matches that have been scheduled .
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2021 [edit ]
2022 [edit ]
Algeria
Ghana
| 5 January 2022 Friendly | v | TBD, Qatar | ||
| Stadium: TBD Referee: TBD |
Ghana TBD v
| March 2022 2022 World Cup qualification 1st Leg | v | TBD |
Ghana v TBD
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| March 2022 2022 World Cup qualification 2nd Leg | v | TBD |
Coaching staff [edit ]
see also : Ghana national football team manager As of 15 December 2020
current technical staff [edit ]
last updated : December 2020
Source : Ghana Football Association official web site
former lead coaches [edit ]
see also : Ghana national football team manager Since 1957 Ghana has had 32 different forefront coaches and three caretakers. C. K. Gyamfi is the most successful of these, leading the Black Stars to three Africa Cup of Nations titles – in 1963, 1965 and 1982 – making Gyamfi the joint most successful coach in the competition ‘s history. [ 42 ] Fred Osam Duodu led the Black Stars to their 1978 Africa Cup of Nations title ; [ 43 ] Ratomir Dujković, Milovan Rajevac, and James Kwesi Appiah, have all led the Black Stars to World Cup qualification. [ 44 ] [ 45 ]
Players [edit ]
current team [edit ]
recent call-ups [edit ]
The following players have been called up for Ghana in the last twelve months .
- Notes
- CNC Cancelled match.
- WD Withdrew.
- INJ Withdrew because of injury.
- PRE Preliminary squad.
- RET Player has retired from international football.
- SUS Suspended from the national team.
local team [edit ]
The football association of Ghana ( GFA ) administers several national teams at different levels, including one for the local anesthetic national football team. The team is restricted to players who alone play in the local league, therefore the Ghana Premier League. The team is nicknamed the Local Black Stars. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ]
young teams [edit ]
The football affiliation of Ghana ( GFA ) administers respective national teams at different age levels between 16 and 23 years of age .
The under-23 level ( or Olympic team ) from the 1992 Summer Olympics competes in Olympic football tournaments, Football at the All-Africa Games, CAF U-23 Championship and is restricted to using players aged 23 years and under. The football at the Olympic Games is therefore considered as an under-23 World Cup and since the Olympic Games of 1992 ; the under-23 level has participated in 5 Olympic Games, becoming the beginning African team to win an Olympic decoration when they won bronze in 1992 .
The under-20 level is considered as the self-feeder horizontal surface to the Black Stars senior police squad and has competed at the FIFA U-20 World Cup since its origin in the 1970s. The under-20 level captured the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009 after defeating Brazil 4–3 on penalties after the equal finished 0–0 in extra time, and becoming the first on the Africa continent to do sol. The under-20 level has been champions of the African Youth Championship four times : in 1995, 1999, 2009, and 2021 angstrom well as doubly runner-up in 2001 and 2013 .
The under-17 level is the youngest charge and players chosen may not be more than 17 years of age. The team represents Ghana in the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The under-17 team have doubly been FIFA U-17 World Cup champions, in 1991 and 1995. additionally they finished as runners up on two occasions, 1993 and 1997. The under-17 level has participated in eight of the 15 tournaments of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, debuting in Scotland 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship and dominating the FIFA U-17 World Cup rival in the 1990s, where they reached four consecutive finals. [ 51 ] They besides doubly won the african U-17 Championship .
actor records [edit ]
- As of 15 November 2021[52]
- Players in bold are still active with Ghana.
Most capped players [edit ]
Asamoah Gyan is the most cap player with 109 appearances, and top scorer with 51 goals .
top goalscorers [edit ]
Captains [edit ]
competitive record [edit ]
FIFA World Cup record [edit ]
czech Republic- Ghana line-up Group stagecoach match, ( First World Cup succeed ) at 2006 World Cup in Germany The Black Stars have qualified for three FIFA World Cup tournaments ; 2006, 2010, and 2014. In 2006, Ghana was the only african side to advance to the second beat of the World Cup in Germany, and was the sixth nation in a rowing from Africa to progress beyond the group stages of the World Cup. [ 61 ] The Black Stars had the youngest team in the 2006 version with an average age of 23 years and 352 days, [ 61 ] and were praised for their better performance. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] FIFA ranked Ghana 13th out of the 32 countries who competed in the tournament. [ 64 ] In the 2010 World Cup, Ghana progressed beyond the group stages of the World Cup in South Africa, and reached the quarter-finals where they were eliminated by Uruguay. The Black Stars were defeated on penalty gunfight after Luis Suárez hand- balled on the goal line deep into supernumerary time, preventing a certain victorious goal. [ 65 ] Of the 32 countries that participated in the 2010 version, FIFA ranked Ghana 7th. [ 66 ] After beating Egypt 7–3 on aggregate in November 2013, Ghana qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. [ 67 ] They were drawn in Group G with Germany, the United States and Portugal. [ 68 ] For the first base time, Ghana fell in the group degree, tying Germany 2–2 and losing to both the United States and Portugal by 2–1. [ 69 ]
Ghana – Uruguay Quarterfinal line-up at 2010 World Cup in South african
| FIFA World Cup record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Cup Finals | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | −3 |
| World Cup Quals (H) | 34 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 78 | 19 | +59 |
| World Cup Quals (A) | 33 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 37 | 42 | −5 |
| World Cup Total | 76 | 37 | 18 | 21 | 124 | 71 | +53 |
Africa Cup of Nations record [edit ]
Ghana has won the Africa Cup of Nations four times – in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982 – bettered by Cameroon and Egypt. As the first winner of three Nations Cup tournaments, Ghana obtained the correct to permanently hold the trophy in 1978. [ 70 ] The Black Stars have qualified for the tournament 23 times in total, finishing as runner-up five times, one-third once, and fourth four times. frankincense, Ghana has the most final game appearances at the tournament with nine, basically making the final in about half of its appearances in the tournament. Ghana besides holds the record of most back-to-back semi-final appearances, with six neat between 2008 and 2017 .
AFCON 2015 match between Ghana and Guinea
| Africa Cup of Nations record | * | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa Cup of Nations Finals | 99 | 54 | 20 | 25 | 130 | 82 | +48 |
- *Denotes place was determined via penalty shoot-out.
- ** Gold background colour indicates that the team won the tournament.
- ***Red border color indicates the team was a host nation.
african Nations Championship phonograph record [edit ]
Ghana has competed in three african Nations Championship tournaments, doubly finishing as runner-up .
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
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 2009 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | |
 2011
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Group stage | 14th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
 2014 |
Runners-up | 2nd | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
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 2018
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| Total | Runners-up | 3/6 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 11 | |
african Games phonograph record [edit ]
- Football at the African Games has been an under-23 tournament since 1991.
west african Nations Cup and WAFU Nations Cup record [edit ]
Olympic Games record [edit ]
- a.Note: The Gold Coast national football team established in 1950; country known as Gold Coast then renamed Ghana in 1957, not competing in international competitions and not being part of neither FIFA nor CAF until 1958, and therefore also recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
- n.Note: Football at the Summer Olympics has been an under-23 tournament since 1992.
Honours [edit ]
Last updated 8 February 2015
continental tournaments [edit ]
- Winners (4): 1963, 1965, 1978, 1982
- Runners-up (5): 1968, 1970, 1992, 2010, 2015
Continental Subregion [edit ]
- Nkrumah Cup[71]
- Winners (3): 1959, 1960, 1963
- Winners (5): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
- Third place (1): 1991
- Winners (2): 2013, 2017
- Third place (1): 2010
early tournaments and cups [edit ]
- Winners: 1962
- Runners up: 1982
- Samuel K. Doe Cup 1986[74]
- Runners up: 1986
- Black Stars Tournament 1993 (Libreville, Gabon)[75]
- Third: 1993
- Great Artificial River Championship 1999 (Libya)[76]
- Runners up: 1999
- Third: 2003
early awards [edit ]
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
Titles chronology [edit ]
Last updated 28 November 2013
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