A Milan derby and an emotional clash between old European rivals Liverpool and Juventus marked the draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Friday.
In the two other quarters, runaway English Premiership leaders Chelsea t…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Monaco will have reason to be feeling aggrieved after their 2-2 draw with Auxerre on Sunday, a result which left Didier Deschamps' side short of moving up to third position in the French league.
After Lyon affirmed their ambitions to…
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson basked in his team's passage into the FA Cup semi-finals and insisted last week's heartbreaking Champions League exit will make his side stronger.
United brushed aside Southampton 4-0 at St Mar…
Kerron Clement of Trinidad broke American great Michael Johnson's 10-year-old 400m indoor world record here Saturday, clocking 44.57sec at the NCAA US collegiate indoor athletics championships.
Clement, 19 and representing the Univers…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Zebi Football Club, Greater Accra Second Division campaigners on Monday invited its old players as well as new players interested in joining the club to report for justifiers at the Club's training grounds at the La Town Park in Accra.
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Dutch international defender Jaap Stam has extended his contract with former European champions AC Milan till the end of the 2007 season, the club said here Wednesday.
"I'll finish my career at Milan," said the 32-year-old Stam, who j…
Nothing appears to be going right for six-time German champions Borussia Dortmund at the moment with acute financial problems off the pitch mirrored on the playing field.
It has certainly been a week to forget for the 1997 Champions L…
Tainted referee Robert Hoyzer has fuelled the escalating German match-fixing scandal by claiming that for two years now German football clubs have been inviting referees into brothels prior to matches.
According to Spiegel magazine Ho…
Wayne Rooney's return to Everton produced the predicted hostile reception but for once the Manchester United star was overshadowed by team-mate Ronaldo who made the first and scored the second to book his side's place in the FA Cup quarter…
Real Madrid's build-up to their mouth-watering Champions League clash next week against Juventus suffered a morale-shattering setback on Saturday when they went down to a 2-0 Spanish League home defeat to Athletic Bilbao.
Madrid start…
The Greater Accra Women Soccer Committee (GAWSOC), will commence the 2005 season with their annual gala competition on March 12, at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
The gala is to prepare the clubs for the league, which will kic…
Manchester United's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo said Wednesday he believes his side can still overcome runaway leaders Chelsea in the English Premiership title race.
"We know things are very complicated, Chelsea have carried …
Accra Great Olympics have petitioned the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) against the intended relegation of the club to the Division One League.
A three-paged petition signed by Mr Ato Ampiah, chairman of th…
A one-day Judo championship which was organised with the support of the Japanese Ambassador, Mrs. Kazuko Asai, has ended at the Sports Hall of the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
The championship, popularly known as the "Ambassad…
The Central Regional Division Two Middle League kicked off on Monday at the Robert Mensah Sports stadium at Cape Coast.
Eight clubs made up of Agona Fankobaa, Swedru Young Rangers, Odupon Heroes and Elmina Coconut Grove Sharks are par…
Police have called on feuding managers Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson to end their war of words ahead of next month's Arsenal-Manchester United match at Highbury, amidst worries the ongoing row could provoke crowd trouble.
Office…
Gary Neville admitted Manchester United had flirted with disaster after the world's richest club finally squeezed past non-league minnows Exeter City in an FA Cup third round replay.
Not until the 87th minute, when Wayne Rooney scored…
Liverpool are likely to go unpunished by the Football Association (FA) for fielding an under-strength side in Tuesday's 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Championship side Burnley.
FA rule 18a states that, "each team participating in a match shall…
Ethiopia spiked the winning run of the Black Starlets when they beat them by two goals to one at the Addis Ababa International Stadium in the first leg final qualifier of the African Under-17 championship.
The home side came from beh…
Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club won the maiden CAF Confederation Cup 9-8 after a marathon penalty shoot out in the final match against archrivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko on Sunday at the Kumasi sports stadium.
Like the result of the …
Supporters of the Accra Hearts of Oak sporting club on Sunday evening took to the streets of the Tamale Metropolis when the team beat Kumasi Asante Kotoko to win the CAF Confederations Cup at the Kumasi Sports Stadium.
Some of the suppo…
Hans Dieter Schmidt, head coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting club says his team will approach Sunday's match against Accra Hearts of Oak in the finals of the Confederations Cup with caution in spite of the technical advantage they have…
Louis Agyeman scored in the final minute to snatch a 1-1 draw for Hearts of Oak against Asante Kotoko here on Sunday in the first leg of an all-Ghana African Confederation Cup final.
The result tilted the odds slightly in favour of K…
Solomon Akunor, a member of the National Table Tennis Team, the Golden Loopers says he is at a loss as to the criteria used by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) in selecting the 2004 Table Tennis player of the year.
The d…
Alhaji Karim Grunza's King Faisal, would have a rather challenging task in defending their Coca Cola Top Four crown when this year's competition kick-starts in January next year.
The club, which combined brilliance and zeal to topple…
Sekondi Wise Fighters FC would need at least 250 Million Cedis to prepare adequately for the National Middle League early next year.
Mr. Samuel Ackah, Chief Executive Officer of the club disclosed this in a speech read for him at a day's…
Twenty-Five level one volleyball coachers drawn across the country have ended a nine-day capacity building course at the Winneba National Sports College.
The participants made up of six women and 19 men were taken through topics inc…
Real Moree United will host Oguaa United in the 10th week of the Central Region Division Two league which kicks off at all centres on Wednesday, December 1.
According to the fixtures released by Regional Football Association in Cape …
Cape Coast Technical Institute played a good game to beat Mfantsipim secondary school 1-0 in their zone A Inter-Schools and Colleges soccer league match played at the Central Region Schools sports park on Friday.
After a goalless firs…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has directed three Division One club Chairmen to appear before its Appeals Committee on Wednesday for hearing.
The Chairmen are from Samartex, Schalke 04 and Vipers.
A statement issued in Acc…
The Japanese Government has shipped a set of modern gym equipment worth 400,000 dollars to Ghana towards the setting up of a modern gym for the development of sports.
The equipment, which is expected to arrive at the Tema Habour by De…
The National Chapters Committee (NCC) of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has descended heavily on Mr. Kofi Nsiah, General Secretary of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) calling for his replacement in the wake of the postponed Confeder…
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) has re-named certain sporting facilities and events after distinguished sports men and women in recognition of their contribution to the development of sports in the country.
Mr Jake…
Oguaa Telecom Ladies whipped Mpataba Special Ladies 11-0 in their Central/Western Women's soccer league played at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium (now known as the Robert Mensah Stadium) on Saturday.
Mary Baidoo and "woman-of-the-match" Fr…
The Brong-Ahafo Regional Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Saturday organised special games on Ghana's constitution among Civic Education clubs from selected Senior Secondary Schools in the Region at the …
A provisional list of 41 sports heroes and heroines from the Eastern Region have put in the public domain by the Eastern Regional office of the National Sports Council (NSC) for scrutiny to confer special honours on the selected ones.
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The nominated Moroccan match officials by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the postponed Confederation Cup final at the Accra Sports Stadium between Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko are scheduled to arrive in the…
Play-off candidates, Okwawu United are currently in the market in search of a new coach to handle the club as they prepare to engage Sekondi Hsaacas in a play-off to determine which of them joins the Division One League next season.
Th…
The Ghana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will from December 10, begin an elaborate youth development programme aimed hunting for more talents for the sport.
The programme, sponsored by J.A. Biney and Co Limited, would be organised on …
Ebusua Dwarfs beat their local rivals, Cape Coast Venomous Vipers 1-0 in their Division One League match at the Cape Coast Sports stadium on Wednesday.
Vipers who started the match on a fast note kept the spectators yelling with joy at…
Anyetei Laryea, 26, Ghana's colourful bantamweight boxer who is due to leave for the United States next month in pursuit of better opportunities wants to fight Osumanu Akaba, the World Boxing Council (WBC) International featherweight champ…
Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, Chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has warned that the nation could lose its hosting rights for the CAN 2008, if cases of crowd violence and hooliganism erupts during the two leg final match between …
Twifo Praso Noble Kings played a good game to beat Moree United 2-0 in the Central Region Second Division League match played at Praso on Sunday.
After a goalless first half, Noble Kings resumed the game strongly and succeeded in scor…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has appointed Ratomir Dujkovic, a Serbian as the new head coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars.
Coach Dujkovic becomes the 34th coach to handle the Black Stars and will assume respons…
Call it a battle fit for the gods, the clash of the titans or a continental show piece and you will not be wrong in any way as the two most glamorous clubs in the country - Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko clash in the first le…
Mr. George Osafo-Agyei, a member of the International Athletics Association (IAA) based in Winneba has called for the construction of a standard athletics oval and provision of modern facilities
at the Winneba National Sports College to…
The National Sports Council has reminded spectators that all political party paraphernalia such as flags and posters as well as singing of political party songs and slogans will not be tolerated at the Accra and Kumasi Sports stadiums.
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The Ghana Football Association has announced the postponement of the CAF Confederation Cup matches between Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko due to security reasons.
The matches were scheduled for the Accra and Kumasi Sport…
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