Ghana national football team

man ‘s national affiliation football team representing Ghana
This article is about the men ‘s team. For the women ‘s team, see Ghana women ‘s national football team
The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in men ‘s international football and has done sol since the 1950s. The team consists of twenty players including the technical foul 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 affiliation in Africa ( founded in 1920 ). Prior to 1957, the team played as the Gold Coast. The team is a penis of both FIFA and CAF.

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Although the team qualified for the aged FIFA World Cup for the first gear time 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 gear military 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 round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they became alone the third African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, and in 2014 they competed in their third gear back-to-back World Cup .

history [edit ]

twentieth hundred [edit ]

Black Stars members in the 1960s pose with some of Ghana ‘s consecutive international 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 following class. On 19 August 1962 at the Accra Sports Stadium, the Black Stars played spanish giants real 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 record win, 13–2 away to Kenya, soon after the second of these. They besides reached the concluding of the tournament in 1968 and 1970, losing 1–0 on each occasion, 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 beginning 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, late winning the 1982 African cup of nations. After three failures to reach the tournament concluding, the 1992 African Cup of Nations saw the Black Stars stopping point second gear .

twenty-first hundred [edit ]

prior to the year 2000, disharmony among the squad which finally led to parliamentary and executive intervention to settle issues between two squad members, Abedi Pele and Anthony Yeboah in the belated 1990s, may have played some part in the bankruptcy of the team to build on the successes of the national minor teams in the recently 1990s, but a fresh generation of Black Stars players who went to the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship concluding became the kernel 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 foremost time the team had reached the global stage of the tournament. The Black Stars started by succumbing to a 2–0 kill to eventual champions Italy, but wins over the Czech Republic ( 2–0 ) and the United States ( 2–1 ) saw them through to the second gear 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 reservation 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 circle of 16 where they played the United States, winning 2–1 in extra time to become the third base african nation 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 goal to send Ghana to the semi-finals was illegally prevented by Luis Suárez ‘s consider handball, who was then shown a red calling card for his actions. [ 11 ] In 2013 Ghana became the only team in Africa to reach four straight 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 modify for the 2014 World Cup in the Second round. They won the group, and in the follow circle 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 hapless plan and payment bonuses being blamed for the poor performance, ( 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 trope [edit ]

Kits and peak [edit ]

Ghana home shirt : 1970s–1980s The total darkness star is present 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 national football team ( Black Stars ) badge and national anthem Black Stars’ kits were sponsored by Puma SE from 2005, with the batch ending in 2014. [ 15 ] The Black Star kit is used rather of the master gold, greens, and crimson coloured football kit based on the colors of the Ghana national flag. The Black Stars have used an all-white and partially black 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 color of the national flag of Ghana, with gold, green and crimson used extensively, as in the team ‘s crown and besides known as the Pan-African color. The gold with fleeceable and red kit concept and design was besides used in the sixties and seventies, and designed with gold and green vertical stripes and loss shoulders. An all black second kit was introduced in 2008 and in 2015, Black Stars ‘ gold-red-green biased kit and all black color kit is to be reassigned to the side of 1st and 2nd kits following the evocation of a brown 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 fasten 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 qualify and 2004 african Cup of Nations qualification qualifying campaigns. The Black Stars ‘ train facilities and education 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 case of inter-continental matches and in Akan nationally by Adom TV, PeaceFM, AdomFM and HappyFM. During the schedule qualification for the 2014 World Cup national 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 broadcasting pot Viasat 1. The friendly match 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 populace broadcast by the corporations GFA television receiver, GBC and Viasat 1. [ 20 ]

Organization and finance [edit ]

The Black Stars as it stands now has no official head because of corrupt practices by the then president, Kwesi Nyantakyi. [ 21 ] and vice-president George Afriyie, [ 22 ] with Frank Davis as conductor of football, and Edward Bawa as treasurer. [ 23 ] The Ghana Football Association ( GFA ) signed a CN¥ 92.2 million ( US $ 15 million ) cope with ghanaian state-run oil and boast exploration corporation, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation ( GNPC ), to sponsor the Black Stars and the renewable contract saw the oil and gas exploration corporation become the global headline presenter of the Black Stars, with a annual Black Stars player wage wage bill, [ 24 ] [ 25 ] following the aureate mining 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 channel and named GFA television, thus becoming the first football association on the african continent to launch its own television receiver network. The groove has the single 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 relegate multi-million private bank sponsorship deal with the ghanaian state-run private bank mental hospital UniBank. [ 28 ]

Supporters [edit ]

Ghana Supporters Union at an AFCON 2015 match 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 casing of the Black Stars ‘ 2010 FIFA World Cup quarter-final against Uruguay in which was attended by 84,017 spectators. [ 29 ] Ghana ‘s equal 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 world. [ 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 ‘ chief 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 early, a dispute between the different association football competitions and wider diplomatic rival for determine across West Africa add to this competition. [ 32 ] [ 33 ]

In books and popular polish [edit ]

Products including books, documentary films, Azonto dances and songs have been made in the diagnose 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 follow is a list of match results in the final 12 months, arsenic well as any future matches that have been scheduled .

Key

Win

Draw

Loss

2021 [edit ]

2022 [edit ]

Ghana TBD vanadium March 2022 2022 World Cup qualification 1st Leg vTBDGhana five TBD March 2022

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 capitulum coaches [edit ]

see also : Ghana national football team manager Since 1957 Ghana has had 32 unlike mind 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 bus 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 ]

stream squad [edit ]

holocene 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, thus the Ghana Premier League. The team is nicknamed the Local Black Stars. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ]

youth teams [edit ]

The football association of Ghana ( GFA ) administers several national teams at different age levels between 16 and 23 years of senesce .
The under-23 flush ( 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 thus 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 first African team to win an Olympic decoration when they won tan in 1992 .
The under-20 degree is considered as the self-feeder level to the Black Stars aged 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 catch finished 0–0 in supernumerary clock, and becoming the first on the Africa celibate to do therefore. The under-20 level has been champions of the African Youth Championship four times : in 1995, 1999, 2009, and 2021 arsenic well as doubly runner-up in 2001 and 2013 .
The under-17 level is the youngest level 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 competition in the 1990s, where they reached four consecutive finals. [ 51 ] They besides doubly won the african U-17 Championship .

musician records [edit ]

As of 12 November 2021[52]

Players in bold are still active with Ghana.

Most capped players [edit ]

Asamoah Gyan is the most capped player with 109 appearances, and top scorer with 51 goals .

top goalscorers [edit ]

Captains [edit ]

competitive phonograph record [edit ]

FIFA World Cup record [edit ]

czech Republic- Ghana line-up Group degree 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 irregular orotund of the World Cup in Germany, and was the sixth nation in a row from Africa to progress beyond the group stages of the World Cup. [ 61 ] The Black Stars had the youngest team in the 2006 edition 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 finish line deep into extra time, preventing a certain winning goal. [ 65 ] Of the 32 countries that participated in the 2010 edition, 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 time, Ghana fell in the group stage, 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

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 right 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, third base once, and one-fourth four times. thus, Ghana has the most final crippled appearances at the tournament with nine, basically making the final examination in about half of its appearances in the tournament. Ghana besides holds the record of most back-to-back semi-final appearances, with six true between 2008 and 2017 .
AFCON 2015 equal between Ghana and Guinea
Africa Cup of Nations record

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 record [edit ]

Ghana has competed in three african Nations Championship tournaments, twice finishing as runner-up .

Year

Round

Position

Pld

2009
Runners-up
2nd
5
1
3
1
7
6

2011

Group stage
14th
3
0
0
3
1
4

2014
Runners-up
2nd
6
3
3
0
4
1

2016
Did not qualify
2018
2020
2022
To be determined
Total
Runners-up
3/6
14
4
6
4
12
11

african Games record [edit ]

Football at the African Games has been an under-23 tournament since 1991.

west african Nations Cup and WAFU Nations Cup criminal record [edit ]

Olympic Games read [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

other awards [edit ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

Titles chronology [edit ]

Last updated 28 November 2013