Asante Kotoko

Written By Emmanuel Adu-Gyamfi - August 31st is exactly 84 years the fabulous club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko was founded. The formation of the club was engineered by one Kwasi Kumah, an Ashanti from Nyankyerenease near Kwadaso, a suburb of Kumasi. He was the chauffeur of an English soldier Colonel Ross in the colonial days. Soccer historians give Kwasi Kumah credit for having returned from Accra to begin Ashanti United in 1924, which was later renamed Kumasi Titanics.

Asante Kotoko has appointed dynamic football administrator, Nana Yaw Amponsah, as the club’s new Chief Executive.

History was made in the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Confederation Cup competition as the 2018 preliminary match between Asante Kotoko S/C and Congo’s Club Athletique Rennaissance Aiglon (CARA) saw as many as five penalty kicks awarded in regulation time by Senegalese referee, Issah Sy, to Kotoko.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko have named one-time coach of the club, Samuel Kwesi Fabin, as successor to Steve Polack, who was recently fired by the club.

The team bus of Kumasi Asante Kotoko was on Wednesday night involved in an accident, this according to reports from several media houses and social media platforms.

The management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has severed ties with the club's expatriate coach, Steven Polack.

A 40th minute strike by Waleed Bakhiek Hamid of Al Hilal was all that the Sudanese club needed to turn the table against Kumasi Asante Kotoko in their opening Group C CAF Confederation Cup match played at the Omdurman Stadium in Khartoum yesterday.

Ghana’s representative at this year’s Confederation of African Football (CAF) Confederations Cup competition, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, was knocked out of the competition this afternoon.

Having been an ardent follower of Kumasi Asante Kotoko for close to two decades, I must say I have witnessed some good football served by this great club. I was not surprised the club was once voted the club of the century. Many clubs on the continent always dreaded locking horns with Kotoko at its fortress, the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, formerly known as the Kumasi Sports Stadium.

PL title contenders - Accra Hearts of Oak – will on Monday, May 2^nd, 2016, renew their rivalry with – Asante Kotoko – at the Accra Sports Stadium in Ghana’s version of the El Clasico or Super Clash to others in the topmost encounter of Match Day 10, as the Rainbow Shirted lads led on the bench by Japanese American import - Kenichi Yatsuhashi take on a Porcupine Warriors side led by caretaker coach Michael Osei who will be looking to avoid back-to-back defeats under his watch in the 103^rd meeting between the two clubs. But there are games to be played on Sunday despite the Hearts vs Kotoko expected thriller sapping all the attention from the other matches.

Match Day 7 of the Ghana premier league will be honoured this weekend with the clash between Medeama and Hasaacas postponed as the former takes to Sudan for CAF confederation cup assignment this weekend.

The Ghana premier league will enter match day 8 this Wednesday with seven games out of the usual eight scheduled to take place at various centers across the country.

The nation’s top-flight league will enter Match Day 12 this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 with the Ghana Football Association still in pursuit of a headline sponsor for the PL, and Ghana's sole representative in Africa, Medeama SC, will once again not be engaged because of their CAF Confederation Cup second leg playoff assignment against South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns which is set for the same day. The Yellows and Mauves must overturn a 3-1 deficit to book their place in group stage.

Match Day 18 of the Ghana premier league came on as scheduled this weekend with all the top four teams on the log hitting a brick wall as all they could manage was pick up a point in their respective encounters, starting with title hopefuls – Asante Kotoko – who fluffed the opportunity to move up top on Saturday, as hosts, Inter Allies, fought back from a goal down to salvage a point but dropped to the last but one relegation spot.

Ghana Premier League side, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, has formally announced the mutual termination of contracts between the club and three of its players.

The much anticipated Ghana Premier League (GPL) second round outstanding match between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak came off as scheduled this afternoon at the B. Yara Stadium in Kumasi with the two sides playing to a one-all tie.

The overly delayed 2016/17 GPL football season will kick off this weekend sandwiched between two big CAF inter-club competition matches with GPL Champions - Wa All Stars and MTN FA Cup Champions – Bechem United making their continental debut against Al-Ahly Tripoli and MC Alger respectively.

Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko supporters will have a big feast on March 5, 2017 when the two bitterest rival clubs clash in an epic match at the Accra Sports Stadium as part of activities marking Ghana’s 60th Independence Anniversary.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko brought back their 'kum apem a, apem be ba' spirit with a late equaliser against Sudanese side Al Hilal but blew away a chance to qualify for the quarterfinal stage of the ongoing CAF Confederation Cup after drawing 1-1 at home at the penultimate stage of the competition at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi on Sunday.

Asante Kotoko S/C coasted home to a 2-1 victory over visiting Coton Sport F/C of Garoua in their second leg CAF Confederations Cup clash at the Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi, on Sunday, to sail through to the Group Stage of the competition.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko secured a vital advantage in their Confederation Cup campaign after beating Coton Sport 3-2 in their playoff match in the northern Camerounian city of Garoua yesterday.

Communication giants, MTN, has converted the old training pitch of Kumasi Asante Kotoko at Adako Jachie in Kumasi into a world-class football pitch for the use of the football club.

The contract of Coach Zdravko Logarusic has been terminated after an emergency Management meeting on Sunday at the club secretariat in Kumasi.

Premier League giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have been saved by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) from paying a $650,000 fine to Egyptian side, Ismaily, for breach of contract over the transfer of striker Abdul Aziz Yusif to Smouha FC.

Despite leaving out two of his most experienced stars, Coach Charles Akonnor, will be expecting to lead Kumasi Asante Kotoko to pull off a surprise when they play Al Hilal in the CAF Confederation Cup game in Omdurman, Sudan, today.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko, this afternoon, thrashed archrivals, Accra Hearts of Oak, by three goals to one at the Tamale Sports Stadium to lift the coveted 2017 MTN FA Cup.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko are set to appoint Kjetil Zachariassen as their substantive head coach to replace Charles Kwablah Akonnor.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko recorded an emphatic 3-0 win over Nkana FC of Zambia in the fourth group game of the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Confederations Cup Competition at the Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi on Sunday.

The Disciplinary Committee (DC) of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has suspended Dr Yaw Amo Sarpong, Policy Analyst of Asante Kotoko, from all football matches and competitions for six months with immediate effect pursuant to Article 39.1(a) of the GFA General Regulations.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko succumbed to a 3-1 defeat at the hands of their Zambian counterparts, Nkana FC, in the third group game of this year’s Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Confederation Cup played at the Nkana Stadium on yesterday.

PRESS RELEASE: POSTPONEMENT OF PREMIER LEAGUE MATCH DAY 23 FIXTURE BETWEEN KUMASI ASANTE KOTOKO AND ACCRA HEARTS OF OAK

The Premier League Board (PLB) has postponed the match day 23 Premier League fixture between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak which was scheduled for Sunday July 16 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.

Asante Kotoko's dreams of making the quarter-finals of the Caf Confederation Cup ended on Sunday following a 2-1 away loss to Zambia's Zesco United on the final matchday of the group stage.