BREAKING: Ghana Withdraws From CAF Competitions

No Ghanaian club will participate in the next year’s CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup following the decision by the country’s interim football governing body decision on Friday.

The Normalisation Committee of Ghana Football have reached an agreement with all the sixteen Ghana Premier League clubs of withdrawing from the 2019 CAF inter-club competitions.

The Ghana Premier League was suspended in June this year following investigations by renowned journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas on Corruption in the Ghanaian game.

Before the league halted, Medeama Stars was leading the pack thus in contention for a berth in the CAF Champions League whiles Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Ashanti Gold were chasing a slot in the second tier competition; the CAF Confederations Cup.

The Normalisation Committee held the meeting with the sixteen clubs at a hotel in Accra on Friday.

Ghana now joins another twelve countries that failed to meet the deadline to submit their respective clubs for CAF competitions. The other nations are Comoros, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritius, Sao Tome and Principe as well as Sierra Leone and Somalia Tunisia, Mozambique, Namibia, Benin and Botswana.