Ghanaian clubs to use the Accra Sports Stadium as their home venue for the 2020/21 Ghana football season will have to pay GHC 20,000 in order to use the facility, the National Sports Authority (NSA) has announced.



The NSA statement signed by the Director-General Professor Peter Twumasi indicated that the new user fees are expected to run during the COVID-19 and will be subject to review by management.

The Accra Sports Stadium will host more matches in the upcoming season in both the Premier League and Division One as five teams have confirmed to use the venue.

In the statement released by the NSA, home teams will be made to pay GHC 20,000 per match under Category B matches whilst Category C matches will attract GHC 15,000.



“Management would like to bring to your notice and attention of fees as well as Teams and Conditions associated with the usage of the Accra Sports Stadium involving Premier League Matches, Matches between Hearts and Kotoko and the National Teams are grouped under “Category A”. Matches between Hearts or Kotoko versus other Premier League clubs are grouped under ‘Category B’ and matches between other clubs excluding Hearts and Kotoko are grouped under “Category C”, the NSA statement indicated.

The Accra Sports Stadium will serve as a  home venue to Hearts of Oak, Asante Kotoko, Inter Allies, and Great Olympics for the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League.

The 2020/21 Ghana Premier League is expected to start on 13 November 2020.

Asante Kotoko will begin their campaign against Eleven Wonders at the venue.



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Hearts of Oak Executive Chairman Togbe Afede XIV has tasked teeming supporters of the club in and around the world to wholeheartedly support the club in the heart of a trophy drought, as the top hierarchy takes steps to correct the situation it finds it’s self in presently.




The Ghanaian club have not been able to win any competition in the past decade raising lots of discontent within the club’s fanbase growing increasingly worried about the direction and future of the club under the current leadership of Togbe Afede.

But in a recent media interview at the unveiling of the team’s partnership agreement with StarLife Assurance, board chairman of Glorious Accra Hearts of Oak, Togbe Afede XIV has strongly remarked that together with others heavily investing their resources in the club suggest that, they have the club at heart just like the masses, who troop to the stadium to watch the club.

“They should also remember that they can’t love the club more than those who are spending money and their time”,

“Those noises don’t help the club. It took 30 years but Liverpool finally won the Premier League title. Genuine fans learn to support and appreciate what management is doing”,

“Negativity makes it hard to strike a relationship like this because nobody doesn’t want to be associated with a bad product. So they have a responsibility to support what we are doing”, he ended.

Hearts of Oak have signed some new players, Abednego Tetteh, Nuru Sulley, Ademola Kuti, Isaac Mensah ahead of the unconfirmed new season, it remains to be seen if the club can end their long absence for a Ghana Premier League trophy in 2020-21 league season.

The government has cleared Ghana Premier League games to be played in the evening in the country 19 years after night matches were banned in the country following the stadium disaster that killed 126 people.



The announcement is a major boost for the local league as it needs to adjust its calendar to avoid clashes with European live matches on television.

A government white paper following the Okudjeto Commission ruled that matches in the league should not be played in the evening following the May 9th match between Hearts and Kotoko which led to the deaths.

The commission ruled that matches in all the stadia in the country should not be played under floodlights until massive improvements of the structure of the stadia are made.

Following the country’s hosting of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations last year, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, as well as the National Sports Authority, say the changes have been made which warrants the lifting of the ban on night matches in the Ghana Premier League.

“In line with the implementation of the recommendations made by the Okudjeto Commission on the May 9th Stadium disaster with regards to security….. the National Sports Authority and the Ministry of Youth and Sports is giving clearance to certain categories of matches to be played at the Accra Sports Stadium,” the statement read.

“Similarly we are implementing the same measures in our facilities nationwide through the renovation of the Cape Coast, Kumasi Essipong and Tamale to allow for certain approved matches to be played under floodlights.”

This is clearly part of the measures by the government to support the campaign to improve the local league in the country.



Matches in the evening will ensure that people will be able to close from work to watch matches at the various stadia.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Football Association has confirmed the Premier League Week 2 clash between Legon Cities FC and Asante Kotoko will be played on Friday night.

A statement on the GFA website read: ”The second week Ghana Premier League match between Legon Cities and Asante Kotoko has been scheduled to kick off on Friday, January 3, 2020, at the Accra Sports Stadium at 6:00 p.m.

”The match will be the first Ghana Premier League match of the new year, as well as the first Friday evening kick-off of the season.

”The game will also be Legon Cities’ first home match of the season since the club was renamed  after the new owners of Legon Cities bought Wa All Stars.”

Legon Cities gave a good account of themselves in their opener when they drew 2-2 with Liberty Professionals on the road.

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Renovation works on the Accra Sports Stadium has been fully completed ahead of the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations next week. 

Works on the stadium started about six months ago as the country was preparing to host the competition.

The stadium will host it’s first game since renovation on Sunday when the Black Queens host the Banyana Banyana in a warm up friendly.

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