FA ready for GPL, officials named despite injunction threats

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has shown its unshakable willingness to go ahead with the opening matches of the 2015/16 Premier League season by naming match officials minutes after widespread reports of an injunction preventing the start of the competition.

There are doubts surrounding the commencement of the Ghanaian top-flight following a court injunction but federation insiders say they have received no such order from the court.

Desperate last-minute measures are underway to prevent the much-awaited Ghana Premier League from going ahead as a well known Tema Youth supporter Babia Alhassan went to court on Thursday to prevent the competition from kicking off.

Alhassan claims he has served an injunction writ at the Ghana FA, to stop the federation from going ahead with their Premier League but the country's governing body's insiders say no such order was received.

In what looks as like direct response to the widespread reports, the GFA has named matches officials for the game strongly indicating that Saturday's big kickoff between giants Asante Kotoko and WAFA will come off as planned with highly-rated referee William Agbovi taking charge of the game.

The Ghana FA has been tight-lipped and gone ahead to name officials.

Below are the match officials for Match day 1 of the 2015/16 Premier League:

MATCH: Wafa vs Kotoko (Saturday February 20)

VENUE: Sogakope

REFEREE: William Agbovi

ASST 1: Effah Tetteh

ASST 2: Alex Annim

4TH REF: Timothy Obuobisa

MATCH: Techiman City vs Berekum Chelsea

VENUE: Techiman

REFEREE: Desmond Abbey

ASST 1: Dawood Ouedrago

ASST 2: Bawa Haruna

4TH REF: Theresa Bremansu

MATCH: Wa All Stars vs Sekondi Hasaacas

VENUE: Wa

REFEREE: Reginald Lathbridge

ASST 1: Murtala Mohammed

ASST 2: Richard Appiah

4TH REF: O.B. Amankwa

MATCH: Ashantigold vs Medeama

VENUE: Len Clay Stadium

REFEREE: Joseph Lamptey

ASST 1: David Laryea

ASST 2: Ibrahim Adams

4TH REF: J.A. Amenya

MATCH: Hearts of Oak vs New Edubiase

VENUE: Accra Sports Stadium

REFEREE: Cecil Fleischer

ASST 1: Ben Vormawor

ASST 2: Sam O. Boateng

4TH REF: Sylvester Adzoku

MATCH: Ebusua Dwarfs vs Dreams FC

VENUE: Cape Coast

REFEREE: Seidu Bomison

ASST 1: Eric Nantiere

ASST 2: Badiu Alhassan

4TH REF: Nuhu Liman

MATCH: Bechem United vs Liberty Prof

VENUE: Bechem

REFEREE: Solomon Mordey

ASST 1: Paul Atimaka

ASST 2: Shine Ayitey

4TH REF: Dally Gagba

MATCH: Inter Allies vs Aduana

VENUE: Tema Stadium

REFEREE: Patrick Kyeremanteng

ASST 1: Sarfo Adade

ASST 2: Frank Bossman

4TH REF: Ernest Barfi