GFA notifies GSA of decision to host Guinea in Tamale

The Ghana Football Association has officially notified the National Sports Authority of their intention to play next month’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea in Tamale.

GFA officials had toured facilities in the Northern Regional capital in recent weeks before arriving at the decision to play the game there.

The decision to play the game in Tamale follows the relative hostile reception accorded the Black Stars team in their opening 2015 AFCON qualifier against Uganda in Kumasi.

The Black Stars had played almost all their matches for the past two years or so in Kumasi due to the massive support the team enjoyed anytime there were in the Ashanti Regional capital.

The GFA had reneged on their earlier policy to spread the Black Stars games across all available venues due to debates over low capacity and a stampede that occurred when Ghana played Lesotho in a World Cup qualifier at the Sekondi Essipong Stadium.

The rotation policy appears to be in full force now and the Ghana FA have accordingly officially written to the National Sports Authority to begin putting logistics in place.

The Black Stars will thus be playing at the Tamale Sports Stadium for the first time since 2007 – where Ghana played Uganda in a friendly – when the stadium was first built ahead of the hosting of the 2008 Nations Cup.