The GFA Normalization Committee Special football tournament has officially been launched and is set to commence this weekend, March 30 and 31.

 The launch of the competition which was held at the forecourt of the GFA Secretariat on Monday evening also saw the official unveiling of the competition logo.

The logo comprises of red which means Protection and Guidance, yellow which means Loyalty and Success, green which means Renewal and Growth and white which means Purity and Peace.



President of the NC Dr Kofi Amoah announced the participation fees to be paid to players and the prize money for each stage of the tournament.

Dr Amoah also stated that the competition will be “used to test the reforms that will be brought on board as well as the rapid adjudication of cases”.

The competition is to revive domestic football competition in Ghana after a 9-month hiatus since the Anas Number 12 exposè.



Winner of the first tier of the competition will represent Ghana at the next CAF Champions league competition whiles the winner of the knock out stage will represent Ghana in the next confederation cup competition.

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According to one of the members of the Normalization Committee Naa Odofoley Nortey, the search for a new Black Queens coach has begun after Bashiru Hayford left his post.

Bashiru Hayford who lead the Black Queens in the AWCON 2018 resigned from his post after he accepted an offer to become the new Head coach of the Somalia National team.

Confirming this in an interview with Happy FM Naa Odofoley said: “As for now, no one has been appointed as the Black Queens head coach. But I am sure in the coming weeks an announcement will be made”

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Medeama boss Samuel Boadu is set to be announced as the new Ghana Black Satellites head coach according to various reports in the country.

Reports are suggesting that the Normalization Committee are on the verge of securing his services and will replace Jimmy Cobblah  after the latter failed to guide the U20 group to the 2019 U20 World Cup in Poland.

The current Medeama Coach guided his talented squad to finish first in the first round of the 2018 Ghana Premier League season.

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Football activities in Ghana were put on hold in Ghana after the Anas documentary that exposed corruption in  Ghana football last year.

A Normalization Committee was appointed to put everything in order and put Ghana football right on track, they announced that Women’s Football will return next month in Ghana.

Fainusatu Naomi was pleased with the news and commended the efforts of the Normalization Committee to get the players back to work.

“Inactive football brings a lot of problems. Some players are engaged in many social vices because they are not actively playing so we are excited by the return of football”, she told Happy FM.



“We are grateful to the Normalization committee for their decision to organize this special competition for us to be active and fit again”

“Two of our players are heavily pregnant and one is pregnant but not visible.

“One of them is married and the others are engaged so I am not saying that pregnancy and giving birth is not good but because they are grown-ups”

“I believe if are playing football they won’t get pregnant now. They might actually decide to give birth later”, she concluded.

The Women’s Special Competition will kick off March 9th, 2019.

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The Hearts coach revealed that he might be forced to break camp if the issue is not resolved. He stated that it is becoming “physically, mentally and financial draining” to be training without knowing when competitive football will resume.

BREAKING: Normalization Committee special competition cancelled

“It is physically, financially and mentally draining to be training for days without knowing when specifically to play matches.

“I’ll be forced to break camp if the Normalisation Committee doesn’t do something to solve issues concerning the inactivity,” he told Sikka FM.



The Normalisation Committee canceled the Special Competition over what they describe as a ploy by club owners to frustrate their work after 14 premier league sides decided not to compete.

The clubs rejected the competition over lack of transparency on the part of the Normalisation Committee.

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According to reports, the club haven’t paid the players in over four months now and this have forced the players to boycott training sessions.

Asante Kotoko sign players without any plans – Hearts of Oak coach Kim Grant

The players were hoping to receive their unpaid salaries through the Normalization Committee’s Special competition but decided to take actions when they discovered that the competition has been canceled.

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Normalization committee released the fixtures of the special competition only a few days ago.

A statement released on Monday read: ”The Normalization  Committee took time to meet the football community to help understand the challenges and problems facing  Ghana football.

”Clubs and players appealed to the N.C to do something and start football playing again.

”The clubs said they were hemorrhaging with debt and their players were getting rusty.

”The N.C heard their appeal and put together a tournament that was designed to make the game beautiful and encourage fans to go to venue centres and also watch on television.

”There were arrangements to pay better fees to referees, budget for media hype to generate interest and a core of young volunteers to help generate interest in young people in football.

”Additionally, plans had been put in place to telecast the matches to bring football to the doorstep of the people.

”Unfortunately, because of the bad image no company was willing to align its brand with Ghana football hence no sponsorship was secured.

”We then had to appeal to the government to come to the rescue of the sad situation of Ghana football.

”The government heard our plea and advanced 1.2m dollars not just to restart football but to train referees and also look at women football and colts football.

”When we got the money the premier league clubs opposed the format of the competition; we bent to accommodate some of their concerns to come up with the final tournament structure that everybody agreed.

”Anytime the game was about starting there was a hiccup from the premier league clubs and the tournament never started.

”The N.C has come to a point where the truth must be told and the right things be done to save Ghana football which is a great asset for the people of Ghana even though it has private sector coloration.

”We hereby cancel the proposed N.C tournament. We will engage the interest of government as to the other alternative uses to the funds advanced the Normalization Committee.

”We sincerely apologize to the Division One league clubs who overwhelmingly subscribed to participate in the N.C Special competition.

”We will come up with a new programme to keep them engaged whilst we reform Ghana football.

”We want to assure the people of Ghana that Ghana football will be normalized, and  will not allow the inherent greatness of our football to die on the alter of selfishness, greed and braggadocio.’

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The competition will be played in two zones comprising all Ghana Premier League teams.

In Premier League Zone A, it houses Asante Kotoko, Aduana Stars, Eleven Wonders, Medeama SC, Bechem United, Berekum Chelsea, Wa All Stars, and Ashanti Gold.

Hearts of Oak, Karela United FC, Dreams FC, Inter Allies, Liberty Professionals, WAFA SC, Ebusua Dwarfs and Elmina Sharks making the Premier League B zone.



Match-Day One fixtures

Zone A

Asante Kotoko vs Aduana Stars

Ashanti Gold vs Eleven Wonders

Wa All Stars vs Bechem United

Berekum Chelsea vs Medeama

Zone B

Hearts of Oak vs Dreams FC



Ebusua Dwarfs vs Karela United FC

WAFA SC vs Liberty Professionals

Inter Allies vs Elmina Sharks

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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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welve (12) teams have been put into four groups of four for the tournament format.

The best two teams from each will advance to the quarter-final stage which will be played on a home-and-away basis.

Majeed Waris in tears as search for former teammate Emiliano Sala is called off

The winners will the progress to the semi-final stage.

Each club is to register 30 players for the competition and the Ghana Football Association has opened the window for the registration of players which ends on Thursday.

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