Ashanti Gold SC

Ashanti Gold

Full name	Ashanti Gold Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	AshGold, Miners
Founded	1978
Ground	Len Clay Stadium, Obuasi, Ghana (Capacity: 30,000)
Owner	Anglogold Ashanti
Chairman	Kudjoe Fiano
Manager	Zdravko Logarusic
League	Ghana Premier League
2008/09	Ghana Premier League, 13th
Home colours Away colours

Ashanti Gold Sporting Club is a football (soccer) team based it the gold mining town of Obuasi, south of Kumasi, in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

Founding years

Ashanti Gold SC was founded in 1978 by a group of employees of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. The employees pleaded with management of AGC to sponsor the team, but they were always refused. The employees continued to pay the salaries and costs for the team and in the 1984 season AshGold finished as runner-up in the Ghanaian FA Cup. The management took notice and, through their leading shareholder Lonrho, arranged funding and sent a British manager to help the fledgling team. Still, no senior management was brought in to run the club. Because of their success in the FA cup, the team was promoted to Ghana's most elite football division. For almost a decade the team struggled due to disorganization, until 1993 when a company official at AGC revamped the club and brought in another British manager. 2004 Obuasi Goldfields Sporting Club Ltd. were renamed AshantiGold Sporting Club Ltd. on April 16 due to new owners Anglogold Ashanti.

Years of success

That next season, AshGold finished third in the division after only Ghanaian powerhouses Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club. The next year a 13-man Board of Directors was established and AshGold won the league. Over the next two years, AshGold won the league again.

Pan-African Cups

The AshGold has competed in three competitions representing Ghana. In 1995 the reached the quarter-finals in the African Champions League and in 1996 only into the final 16. In 1997 they were the runners up of the African Champions League.

Recent years

Ashanti Gold SC has never matched the greatness of their three year cup run, but have remained a top team in the Ghana Telecom Premier League. They continue to produce excellent footballers who have played throughout Europe. AshGold goalkeeper George Owu, joined the Black Stars in their quest for the FIFA 2006 World Cup, but did not appear in a game.

Honours

• Ghana Telecom Premier League: 3

1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96

• Ghanaian FA Cup: 1

1992/93

• Ghana Telecom Gala: 1

1995/96

• African Champions League: 0

Finalist: 1997

Performance in CAF competitions

• CAF Champions League: 3 appearances

1997 - Finalist

2007 - First Round

2008 - First Round

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1 appearance

1996 - Second Round

• CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance

2011 - First Round

• CAF Cup: 2 appearances

2001 - Quarter-Finals

2002 - First Round

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Abdul Fatawu Dauda 2 DF John Ashong 3 DF Emmanuel Adjetey 4 DF Habib Mohammed 5 DF Isaac Nii Kwei 6 DF David Telfer 7 MF Yakubu Mohammed 8 MF Edmund Owusu Peprah 9 FW Thomas Duah 13 DF Latif Mohammed 14 MF Theophilus Anobaah 15 DF Henri Traoré 16 DF Michael Boakye 17 MF Kwaku Sarpong 18 FW Mark Komade 19 MF Daniel Djangba 20 FW Sumaila Nyanya 21 MF Jonas Frimpong 22 GK Isaac Akrong 23 DF Aziz Ibrahim 24 FW Addoquaye Addo 25 DF Henry Entsir 26 DF Aminu Mohammed

No. Position Player - DF Daniel Asamoah - DF Rick Essuman - DF Kofi Amoako - DF Owusu Sekyere - DF Ibrahim Yekini - DF Yusif Ali - DF Alfred Arthur - DF Joe Jackson - MF Alhaji Saanie - MF Aminu Mohammed - MF Joseph Apenkwah - MF Daniel Asamoah - MF Stephen Owusu Ansah - MF Nathaniel Quaye - MF Mohammed Polo - FW James Tagoe - FW Richard Awuah - FW Emmanuel Adu-Gyamfi - FW Eric Adu Poku - FW Frank Adomako - FW Solomon Addy

Famous players

Valentine Atem Sadick Adams Lawrence Adjei Augustine Ahinful Charles Akonnor Frank Andoh Alfred Arthur Ronaldo Awudu Anthony Baffoe Stephen Baidoo John Benson

Isaac Boakye Afo Dodoo Kwaku Duah Ahinful Nana Arhin Duah Eric Gawu Ebenezer Hagan Joe Hendricks Nasir Lamine Jonathan Mensah Emmanuel Osei Kuffour Daniel Opare

Agyeman Prempeh Opoku George Owu Jonathan Quartey Abdoul Karim Sylla Mubarak Wakaso Shaibu Yakubu Anthony Laffor Ben Teekloh Arafat Djako

Farmteam

Royal Knight F.C. is a 1st Division football club based in Nsawam, Ghana and is also operate a reserve team from AshantiGold SC.

Former coaches

• Momo Medic

External links

• Official site