Daniel Quaye (born 25 December 1980) 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 former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a defender.

Club career

Quaye is one of Ghana's favourite footballing talents after his long and distinguished career with Hearts of Oak. Since joining the Ghanaian giants in 1999, he has been instrumental in the club's six league title successes along with helping them lift the

CAF Champions League The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club (association football), club football competition organized by the Conf ...

in 2000 and

CAF Confederation Cup The CAF Confederation Cup, known as the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual association football football team, club competition established in 2004 and organized by Confederation of African Football, CAF ...

in 2005. After nine years Quaye signed with Chinese club

Chongqing Lifan Chongqing Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai ...

, playing 15 matches in one year before returning to former club Hearts of Oak in August 2007. He was released by Hearts of Oak and re-joined Chongqing Lifan in March 2008. In January 2009, he again left than Chongqing Lifan and signed than on 9 April 2009 to Eleven Wise in his homeland

. In summer 2009 he moved back to China who signing for

Yanbian FC Yanbian Funde F.C. () was a Chinese football club. The team was based in Yanji, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin province where their home stadium is the Yanji Stadium that has a seating capacity of 30,000. The club's predecessor was ...

. Quaye extended his contract with Yanbian at the beginning of season 2010. Quaye moved to China League One side Beijing Baxy in February 2012.

International career

However the accomplished defender only featured in three of the Black Stars' qualifying games and his call-up to the Finals squad ended a two-year absence from the international scene. He was a member of the

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and was called up to the

2006 World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams represe ...

and was member of the

Ghana national under-17 football team The Ghana national U-17 football team, known as the Black Starlets, is the youngest team that represents Ghana in football. They are two-time FIFA U-17 World Cup Champions in 1991 and 1995 and a two-time Runner-up in 1993 and 1 ...

1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship The 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the seventh edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Cairo, Ismailia, Alexandria, and Port Said in Egypt from 4 to 21 September 1997. Players born after 1 January 1980 could participate in this t ...

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Honours

Ghana Premier League The Ghana Premier League is the top professional association football league in Ghana organized by the Ghana Football Association and formed in 1958 to replace a previous league incarnation, the Gold Coast Club Competition which ran from 1933 ...

: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 *

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 ...

: 1999, 2000 *

: 2000 *

African Super Cup The CAF Super Cup, known as TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The competition was fi ...

: 2001 *

: 2005

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quaye, Daniel 1980 births Living people Ghanaian men's footballers Ghana men's international footballers 2006 FIFA World Cup players Accra Great Olympics F.C. players Sekondi Eleven Wise F.C. players Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in China Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. players Yanbian Funde F.C. players Beijing Sport University F.C. players China League One players Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in China Ghana men's under-20 international footballers Men's association football defenders 21st-century Ghanaian sportsmen Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers