Kumasi Cornerstone is a
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
ian professional
football club
In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as ...
based in
Kumasi
Kumasi is a city and the capital of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is the second largest city in the country, with a population of 443,981 as of the 2021 census. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region ...
,
Ashanti. They are currently competing in the Ghana
Division Two League.
Kumasi Cornerstone is the oldest existing club in Ashanti Kingdom. It was founded in 1931. The club went to relegation after 1994-95 Ghana Premier League season and has since not qualified to the Premier League again. Both Tony Yeboah and Mohammed Tijani won the Ghana Premier League top scorer awards when playing for Cornerstone F.C
The club has been given to Nana Addo Boaman, a chief of Atonsu Nahinso in Kumasi Metropolitan for 5 years (2023–2028)
Notable former players
Joe De Graft (GK)
Joe Aikins
Ben Acheampong Simmons
Stephen Frimpong Manso
Emmanuel Ampeah
Abdul Razak 'Golden Boy'
Sampson Appiah
Dominic Adiyya
Kofi Nti Boakye
Isaac Boakye
Ernest Appau
Tony Yeboah
Mohammed Tijani
Nicholas Opoku
etc.
source: Bright Yeboah Taylor (Ghanaian Football Historian)
Honours
*
Ghanaian FA Cup
The Ghana FA Cup, currently known as the MTN FA Cup for sponsorship purposes, is the annual knockout competition in Ghanaian football created in 1958, a year after the independence of Ghana. Open to all Ghanaian football clubs, the competiti ...
**Winners (2): 1965, 1989
Ghana – List of Cup Winners
RSSSF
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.
* Ghana Telecom Gala
**Winners (1): 1979
* WAFU Cup
**Winners (1): 1987
References
Football clubs in Ghana
1957 establishments in Ghana
Sport in Kumasi
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