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The 29th Ordinary Congress of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) took place on Monday, July 10, 2023.
The congress which took place at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi was for the Ghana FA to have their annual meeting ahead of the start of the 2023/24 season.
In his speech, the President of the Ghana FA, Kurt Okraku, announced numerous packages aimed at developing Ghana football at large.
Below are the key points from his speech:
The GFA, through a partnership with Ghana Tourism Authority will give each Division One club two sets of jerseys. Division One clubs will EACH receive GH¢80,000 next season as incentives
RFA’s coordinating office to be built in Accra to see to the work of RFA’s. $100,000 for purchase of footballs for all regional competitions. Pick Ups behiclkes for regional football association.
Each Ghana Premier League club is to be supported with GHC 50,000 for setting up a youth team. Clubs would also get 25,000 when two of their youth players feature in more than 15 games.
We will invest GHS300,000 to help in the payment of referee fees in regions. Clubs don't have to take the burden alone.
Our heroes, our ex-national team players to be interested in coaching. We want to offer them facilities that would encourage them to go into coaching. One of the facilities will be a 50% discount in payment relating to the acquisition of coaching licenses to our ex-national team players.
GFA to introduce a new bus acquisition strategy to ensure clubs have quality buses to improve their transportation.
We will invest $100,000 into to colt’s football. This money will serve as a means of buying football to our kids.
An amount of GHC 300,000 will be pushed to the referee’s Committee to be fully funded and help develop the Catch Them Young Referees as well.
The GFA will continue to absorb all referee fees for the upcoming season. Referees allowance to be paid weekly. GHC100,000 monthly allowance to regional referee managers. RFA Chairman will get GHC4,000 monthly allowance and Vice chair gets GHC1,500.
I have already said that the biggest problems facing our game are coaching and refereeing. We have big coaching problems in Ghana.
The congress which took place at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi was for the Ghana FA to have their annual meeting ahead of the start of the 2023/24 season.
In his speech, the President of the Ghana FA, Kurt Okraku, announced numerous packages aimed at developing Ghana football at large.
Below are the key points from his speech:
The GFA, through a partnership with Ghana Tourism Authority will give each Division One club two sets of jerseys. Division One clubs will EACH receive GH¢80,000 next season as incentives
RFA’s coordinating office to be built in Accra to see to the work of RFA’s. $100,000 for purchase of footballs for all regional competitions. Pick Ups behiclkes for regional football association.
Each Ghana Premier League club is to be supported with GHC 50,000 for setting up a youth team. Clubs would also get 25,000 when two of their youth players feature in more than 15 games.
We will invest GHS300,000 to help in the payment of referee fees in regions. Clubs don't have to take the burden alone.
Our heroes, our ex-national team players to be interested in coaching. We want to offer them facilities that would encourage them to go into coaching. One of the facilities will be a 50% discount in payment relating to the acquisition of coaching licenses to our ex-national team players.
GFA to introduce a new bus acquisition strategy to ensure clubs have quality buses to improve their transportation.
We will invest $100,000 into to colt’s football. This money will serve as a means of buying football to our kids.
An amount of GHC 300,000 will be pushed to the referee’s Committee to be fully funded and help develop the Catch Them Young Referees as well.
The GFA will continue to absorb all referee fees for the upcoming season. Referees allowance to be paid weekly. GHC100,000 monthly allowance to regional referee managers. RFA Chairman will get GHC4,000 monthly allowance and Vice chair gets GHC1,500.
I have already said that the biggest problems facing our game are coaching and refereeing. We have big coaching problems in Ghana.