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The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has launched an innovative app that allows football fans to stream live Ghanaian matches, receive exclusive news and updates on Ghana football in real-time. The launch took place at the Headquarters of the Ghana Football Association on Monday, December 20, 2021. The app dubbed “Ghana Football App” is available to download on the Google Play ...

Tottenham are out of the Europa Conference League after Uefa ruled they forfeited their final match against Rennes. The match on 9 December was called off following a Covid outbreak, with 13 positive cases at the London club. Uefa then said the match could not be rescheduled and referred the matter to its disciplinary body. It awarded Rennes a 3-0 ...

Second-half goals from Kofi Kordzi and Daniel Afriyie secured Hearts of Oak their second consecutive win in the Ghana Premier League on Sunday. The Phobians beat Accra Lions 2-0 at the Cape Coast Stadium as they continued their revival. Despite their dominance in the first half, Hearts couldn’t score with Afriyie missing a good opportunity after receiving a pass from ...

Real Tamale United returned to winning ways after two matches on Sunday when they claimed a deserving win over Elmina Sharks FC at the Aliu Mahama Stadium. The Pride of the North needed two first goals to record a 2-0 victory against Sharks in the matchday nine fixture in Tamale. Shaibu Ibrahim Tanko made only one change to the RTU ...

Accra Hearts of Oak legend, Alhaji Mohammed Ahmed, popularly known as Mohammed Polo, has thrown his support behind the under-fire head coach of the Phobians, Samuel Boadu. The Ghana Premier League Champions crashed out of the CAF Confederations Cup in Algeria on Sunday and are bottom of the ongoing domestic league. Polo, who had earlier called for a review of ...

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has dismissed rumours that next month’s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) could be moved away from Cameroon following the recent discovery of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. The new variant has led to travel restrictions being introduced by some countries for several African nations, with Nigeria, which neighbours Cameroon, the latest to be ...

Former Ghana international Laryea Kingston has attributed Hearts of Oak’s poor form to fatigue following their humiliating exit from Africa. The Phobians crashed out of the CAF Confederation Cup on Sunday because of a 4-0 defeat in Algeria against JS Saoura. Their exit follows their winless start to Ghana Premier League title defence. The Phobians occupy the last position on ...

England midfielder Jude Bellingham has been fined 40,000 euros (£34,000) by the German Football Association after questioning the appointment of referee Felix Zwayer for Borussia Dortmund’s Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich. Bellingham criticised Zwayer after Dortmund’s 3-2 defeat on Saturday, referring to the official’s six-month ban for a match-fixing scandal in 2005. The 18-year-old has been fined for “unsportsmanlike behaviour”. ...

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is optimistic forward Mohamed Salah will sign a new contract at the club. The Egypt international is enjoying a superb season and is the Premier League’s top scorer with 13 goals. Salah, 29, joined the Reds in 2017 and his current deal expires in 18 months. “We’re talking – and extending the contract for a player ...

Demarai Gray’s superb injury-time strike earned Everton a first win in nine games to end a bruising week with a stunning comeback against Arsenal. After a week in which the hosts were thumped by Liverpool and director of football Marcel Brands left the club, Rafael Benitez’s team responded with a much-improved display that showed the character and resilience fans were ...