Patience Adams, the Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer of the National Sports Authority (NSA), has announced that the Baba Yara Sports Stadium is ready to reopen after undergoing extensive renovations. The stadium was closed following a ruling from the Confederation of African Football (CAF), which deemed it unfit to host Category Three matches earlier this month. This situation posed a ...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has requested the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to select a venue outside Ghana for the next two qualifiers for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). This follows the withdrawal of approval by the continent’s football-governing body on the Baba Yara Stadium. This means that, there’s currently NO stadium in Ghana fit to host ...
The Baba Yara Sports Stadium will host Ghana v Mozambique in the second leg of the 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers on October 30. The Black Meteors will host their home games in Kumasi for their qualifiers for the tournament that will be hosted in Morocco. Coach Ibrahim Tanko’s Black Meteors begin the quest for back-to-back qualification to the U-23 ...
Ghana’s Minister in charge of Sports, Mustapha Ussif has disclosed that his outfit will supervise the fixing of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium for approval from the continent’s governing body, CAF. The West African country in March had to plead with CAF for a temporary approval for the Baba Yara Stadium to be used for the first leg of the ...
The Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi has been declared not fit to host any CAF or FIFA sanctioned games for the foreseeable future. The venue was granted a one-match only license to host the 2022 World Cup play-off match between Ghana and Nigeria last month. Here are the 19 things wrong with the Baba Yara Stadium: Share this:TweetTelegramWhatsAppEmailLike this:Like Loading... ...
The National Sports Authority (NSA) wishes to debunk reports going round that its stadia have been rejected by CAF after visits. NSA is waiting on GFA’s request as to which stadia they intend to use for their CAF matches. Such communication hasn’t been received yet and therefore no CAF inspection conducted in our facilities recently for CAF matches this season. ...
Charles Amofa speak for the National Sports Authority in an interview has said, Caf and FIFA didn’t reject CAPE COAST STADIUM BECAUSE the pitch is in a bad state, but they rejected the stadium basis on the fact that the NIGERIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION Requested for 10 000 tickets. “He further stated Babayara stadium came into consideration after NIGERIA appeal for ...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has granted Ghana a one-match permit to use the Baba Yara Sports Stadium for the upcoming 2022 World Cupplayoff first leg against Nigeria. Ghana had been set to host the Nigerians at the Cape Coast Stadium but the away side complained about the state of the facility prompting CAF to move the match from ...
The Cape Coast Sports Stadium has been rejected as a venue for Ghana and Nigeria World Cup qualifier play-offs first leg by the world’s football governing body, FIFA. This is due to the bad state of the 15,000 capacity Sports Stadium after the 65th Independence Day Parade. According to Sadick Adams popularly known as sports Obama says he has been ...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has granted Ghana a one-match permit to use the Baba Yara Sports Stadium for the upcoming 2022 World Cupplayoff first leg against Nigeria. Ghana had been set to host the Nigerians at the Cape Coast Stadium but the away side complained about the state of the facility prompting CAF to move the match from ...