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Ghana

National team · Ghana

«Black Stars»

79 Matches
25 wins
20 draws
34 losses
92–106 Goals
−14 Difference
1.2 Scored per game
Form W 18 Jun · Home Panama · 1:0 D 23 Jun · Away England · 0:0 L 27 Jun · Away Croatia · 1:2 L 4 Jul · Away Colombia · 0:1 L 24 Sep · Away Ivory Coast · 0:2 L 29 Sep · Home Gambia · 2:4

Nigeria is the fixture that matters most, the "Jollof Derby", though Ivory Coast has left its own mark, above all in the 1992 and 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

Before there was a Ghana Football Association there was a Gold Coast side, and it played its first match against Nigeria on 28 May 1950. The GFA itself followed in 1957, taking over from the old Gold Coast federation and joining FIFA a year later, by which point the team had already taken the nickname that stuck: the Black Stars, in white at home and gold away, with red and green from the flag worked into the kit.

The 1960s and early 1980s were the run that built the reputation: four Africa Cup of Nations titles between 1963 and 1982. Abedi Pele carried the side through the years either side of that, voted African Footballer of the Year three times running from 1991 to 1993, and it was his generation that took an Olympic bronze in Barcelona in 1992 with the under-23s.

Ghana has been to five World Cups since 2006 and qualified again for 2026, but that 2010 quarter-final remains the ceiling. A team that plays its home games shuttled between Accra and Kumasi, with Kumasi's Baba Yara Stadium ruled unfit for international football by the Confederation of African Football over its pitch, has not lifted the continental title since 1982.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
4 Oct Friendlies Morocco A
29 Sep Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification Gambia H 2:4 L
24 Sep Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification Ivory Coast A 0:2 L
4 Jul World Cup Colombia A 0:1 L
27 Jun World Cup Croatia A 1:2 L
23 Jun World Cup England A 0:0 D

Standing

Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification

Group stage · Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification - Group C

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Ivory Coast 2 2 0 4:0 6
2 Gambia 2 2 0 6:3 6
3 Somalia 2 0 2 1:4 0
4 Ghana 2 0 2 2:6 0
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 79
79 Matches
25 wins
20 draws
34 losses
92–106 Goals
−14 Difference
1.2 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 79
25wins: 25 · 31% 20draws: 20 · 25% 34losses: 34 · 43%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
18 Jun · Home Panama · 1:0
23 Jun · Away England · 0:0
27 Jun · Away Croatia · 1:2
4 Jul · Away Colombia · 0:1
24 Sep · Away Ivory Coast · 0:2
29 Sep · Home Gambia · 2:4
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 79 30 49
Scored 92 48 44
Conceded 106 27 79
Scored per game 1.2 1.6 0.9
Conceded per game 1.3 0.9 1.6
Difference −14 +21 −35

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Kwasi Sibo Midfielder 8 Matches Caleb Yirenky Midfielder 8 Matches Jonas Adjei Adjetei Defender 8 Matches Issahaku Abdul Fatawu Midfielder 8 Matches Lawrence Ati Zigi Goalkeeper 8 Matches Christopher Bach Forward 7 Matches Jerome Osei Opoku Defender 7 Matches Benjamin Asare Goalkeeper 7 Matches

Squad of Ghana

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
8 Kwasi Sibo Midfielder 8
3 Caleb Yirenky Midfielder 8
4 GH Jonas Adjei Adjetei Defender 22 8
7 Issahaku Abdul Fatawu Midfielder 8
1 GH Lawrence Ati Zigi Goalkeeper 29 8
13 Christopher Bach Forward 7
18 Jerome Osei Opoku Defender 7
16 Benjamin Asare Goalkeeper 7
14 GH Gideon Mensah Defender 28 7
21 Kojoe Pepra Oppong Defender 7
12 GH Joseph Anang Goalkeeper 26 7
10 Solomon Brandon Michael Clarke Thomas-Asante Midfielder 6
20 GH Augustine Boakye Forward 25 6
19 Ernest Nuamah Appiah Forward 6
11 GH Antoine Serlom Semenyo Midfielder 26 6
25 GH Prince Kwabena Adu Forward 23 6
9 Jordan Pierre Ayew Forward 6
22 GH Kamaldeen Sulemana Forward 24 5
23 Derrick Luckassen Defender 5
5 Thomas Partey Midfielder 5
26 Marvin Senaya Defender 5
15 Elisha Owusu Midfielder 5
17 Rahman Baba Defender 4
19 Iñaki Arthuer Dannis Williams Midfielder 4
6 Abdul Mumin Defender 4
2 Alidu Seidu Defender 4
15 Ibrahim Sulemana Kakari Midfielder 3
23 GH Alexander Kwabena Baidoo Djiku Defender 32 3
11 Benjamin Tetteh Forward 2
9 GH Felix Ohene Afena-Gyan Midfielder 23 2
22 GH Mohammed Gadafi Fuseini Forward 24 2
5 Ronald Donkor Midfielder 2
6 R. Ibrahim Midfielder 2
17 Ebenezer Annan Defender 2
2 Derrick Arthur Köhn Midfielder 2
2 GH Rokson Eboa Defender 22 1
24 Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer Forward 1
27 Daniel Ebenezer Kwasi Agyei Forward 1
6 GH Patric Pfeiffer Defender 27 1

Fixtures of Ghana

Honours of Ghana

  • WAFU Nations Cup 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2013, 2017 7
  • Africa Cup of Nations 1963, 1965, 1978, 1982 4
  • Olympic Games Bronze Medal 1992 1

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