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Int’l Friendly: Ghana to face Austria and Germany ahead of 2026 World Cup

Published

9 months ago

January 22, 2026

Ghana’s Black Stars will take on Austria in an international friendly at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium as part of their preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the encounter scheduled for Friday, March 27, 2026, at 17:00 GMT.

The friendly forms part of Ghana’s two-match programme in March aimed at sharpening the team ahead of the global showpiece. It will offer head coach Otto Addo the opportunity to assess his squad against strong European opposition as the Black Stars continue building momentum toward the tournament.

Ghana have been drawn in Group I of the 2026 World Cup, where they will face England, Croatia and Panama. Austria, meanwhile, are preparing for a challenging Group J campaign that includes reigning world champions Argentina, Algeria and Jordan, making the Vienna showdown a valuable test for both sides.

Following the Austria fixture, the Black Stars will round off their March window with another high-profile friendly against Germany on Monday, March 30, 2026 at 8:45pm.

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Int’l Friendly : Morocco and Ghana friendly cancelled

Published

2 weeks ago

September 30, 2026

Raphael Bannerman-Quartey

The upcoming friendly match between Morocco and Ghana has been cancelled.

The game was set for Sunday, October 4, 2026, at the Grand Stadium in Tangier.

But local reports has it that, the Ghana Football Association has informed the Royal Moroccan Football Federation of its apology for not participating in the match, due to an internal crisis linked to outstanding financial dues for the Ghana national team players.

The news of the cancelation went rife after Ghana lost at home to The Gambia in their second qualifying game of the 2027 AFCON qualifying series with many suggesting that the FA didn’t want to further embarrass the country with such a high profile friendly game.

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has begun weighing up other suitable options for a friendly game.

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Wales battle Ghana in International Friendly

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4 months ago

June 2, 2026

Raphael Bannerman-Quartey

The Dragons of Wales will face the Black Stars of Ghana in a historic international friendly at Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday, 2 June 2026 at 18: 45 pm.

Wales missed out on qualifying to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but Ghana will be making it’s fifth appearance at the World stage.

Head coach Craig Bellamy hopes to properly integrate the emerging players as they look ahead to co-hosting Euro 2028.

The likes of Brennan Johnson, Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon, and Lewis Koumas are expected to be given a chance to impress the home fans in Cardiff.

Meanwhile, Ghana is under a new technical direction with just ten days to the World Cup, having sacked Otto Addo for experienced Portuguese veteran Carlos Queiroz.

Despite losing their last five internationals, including defeats to Mexico and Germany, the Black Stars will be hoping to make amends as expectations for the team ahead of the World Cup has spirialled to an all time low ahead of the World Cup in North America.

It is expected that Lawrence Ati-Zigi will be in post, flanked by Senaye, Gideon, Opoku, Adjetey, Partey, Sibo, and Owusu in a midfield trio and Jordan, Kamaldeen, and Fatau in attack.

Prediction : Wales 1-2 Ghana

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Twenty-two players train in Puebla for Mexico friendly

Published

5 months ago

May 20, 2026

Raphael Bannerman-Quartey

Twenty-two Black Stars players have arrived in Puebla for Friday’s international friendly against Mexico.

The Black Stars have opened camp for the upcoming Friendly game on Friday.

Joseph Opoku, Prince Amoako, David Oduro, Aziz Issah, Majeed Ashimeru, Terry Yegbe are some of the players.

Some of the local players to get the nod are, goalkeppers, Solomon Agbasi, Benjaimen Asare, Razak Simpson, Salim Adams and Ebenezer Adade.

Ghana have lined up the fixture as part of their build-up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be staged in Mexico, Canada, and the United States in June.

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Match Report : Germany 2-1 Ghana

Published

7 months ago

March 30, 2026

Raphael Bannerman-Quartey

The BlackStars of Ghana lost to Germany in an international friendly in Stuttgart on Monday.

The West African side were humbled by Austria some three days ago and needed to achieve a result to undo their wrongs, which they did in a good fashion against the German machine.

Coach Otto made two changes to the side that got humbled by Austria.

Benjaimen Asare was brought in for Ati-Zigi, while Oppong Preprah, coming in for Fatawu Issahaku, settled in a three-back system.

The Germans created a lot of chances in the first half through Havertz, Woltemade, and Gnarby, but were finally rewarded on the brink of halftime as Jonas Adjetey was deemed to have handled the ball.

Havertz scored the resulting penalty on the stroke of half-time.

With 20 minutes to go, Fatawu Issahaka made great work of a low cross from Kohn to make it 1-1.

There was room for one more goal as Deniz Undav poked in the match-winner with two minutes to spare, with an assist from Leroy Sane to get the score at 2-1.

The BlackStars lost both friendly games against Austria and now Germany.

They will face Mexico on May,22 and Wales on June,2,2026.