Each Ghana Premier League club will receive an initial GH¢ 50,000 from Government as financial support for having to play matches behind closed doors.

In total, the President of the Republic H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo approved the first tranche of 900,000 to be disbursed.

A statement read: ”The President of the Republic, H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has authorized the Ministry of Youth and Sports to release an amount of nine hundred thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢900,000) as first tranche of payment to support the 18 premier league clubs to offset some of their expenses in this era of the covid-19 pandemic. Each club is to receive an amount of 50,000, Ghana Cedis (GH¢ 50,000).

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— Ministry of Sports & Recreation. (@moysgovgh) December 4, 2020

”This has become necessary due to the directive by government to all premier league matches to be played behind closed doors.”

Before the start of the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League, clubs were told not to admit fans into the stadium as part of a measure to stop the spread of the deadly virus.

Clubs in the Ghana top-flight will pocket GH¢ 100,000 each from government to cushion them.

This financial support will be extended to women’s league clubs, Division One League, and the country’s campaigners in CAF inter-club competitions.

”Other clubs such as Division One, National Women’s League, CAF Champions League representative and CAF Confederation Cup Representative will also receive some financial support from Government in due course.” 2020/21 Ghana Premier League: Week 4 Match Preview -Eleven Wonders vs WAFA SC.



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The impact of the novel Coronavirus cannot be underestimated, lives have been lost as a result, major economies have granded to a halt, whiles football like many other disciplines have been severely affected.

The Ghana Football Association have held a series of virtual meetings with the government in ambition to restart the league but the country’s Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has implored the association to implement a comprehensive plan of how they think it will be safe to resume football activities and present it to the government for further deliberations.

In a recent interview with Accra based Atinka FM, he said lives were important in the current dispensation and asked the association not to be angry.

“Don’t be angry, we are talking about people’s safety here, protecting lives is at stake, so there should be no reason to be angry.”

“The football people should take their time and make a good representation of how they can play football again whiles they can still protect people, don’t be angry.” He added.

One of the country’s Associations being the Golf Association have sort to negotiate with the government with the sole purpose of getting it to lift the ban.

“When you do that government will have a discussion on it. For instance, the Golf Association has brought their presentation urging the government to open the various golf parks for them and even gave measures they have put in place to allow them to play their game amid COVID-19.”

“So this is not the time for GFA to be angry but rather should follow the same step,”

It remains to be seen if the GFA will follow in the footsteps of Germany in restarting the league or cancel it as some African countries have done, Kenya, Guinea, Congo, Zambia, Ethiopia, Mali, and others.

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The Sports Ministry announced that the Government will be supporting Ghanaian clubs in African competitions.

The statement stated that clubs that manage to qualify for the CAF Champions League will receive the sum of $200,000, while $150,000 will be given to club that qualified for the CAF Confederations Cup group stages.

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