Beginning the 2014/15 First Capital Plus Bank League season, the country’s football governing body, the GFA will introduce a mandatory pre-match press conferences, the Club Licensing System and the Domestic Competition Management System (DCMS) among others, GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi has announced..
The FA boss mentioned that these were to ensure that the league reached the heights that pertained in other parts of the world.
According to the man who is on record to have led Ghana to three World Cups, the GFA has already taken steps to introduce mandatory prematch news conferences.These conferences are aimed at giving the league the needed publicity.
“The introduction of Club Licensing System will also ensure that clubs will meet new requirements in the areas of infrastructure, administration, sporting and financing.
“Under the DCMS system too, all clubs will register their players online by attaching all the necessary documents and submitting them to the FA. It will store all bio data of all registered players and records of the league, which will make it easier for stakeholders to track important data and statistics of the league like minutes played, number of goals scored, yellow cards, red cards, etc,” said the GFA chief.
Kwesi Nyantekyi commended the First Capital Plus Bank for their timely intervention to sponsor the league, describing their sponsorship as a business partnership intended to bring mutual benefits to the sponsor and sponsored.
The FA president appealed to all clubs to meet the Cub Licensing requirement.
September 21, 2014 has been fixed for the commencement of the Premier league after Congress on September 12, 2014.
The three clubs joining the Premier League are Great Olympics, BA United and Feyenoord.
Meanwhile, the wonder club, Accra Great Olympics are eager to shock football fans as they have vowed to win the league and stay.
