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Ashanti Gold Sporting Club popularly known as AshGold is a Ghanaian
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team based in the gold mining town of
Obuasi Obuasi is a gold mining town and is the capital of the Obuasi Municipal District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It lies in the southern part of the Obuasi Municipal and is located about from Kumasi. As of 2012, the town has a population of 1 ...
, south of
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 ...
the capital of
Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in the southern part of Ghana and is the third largest of Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of and making up 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of ...
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History

Ashanti Gold SC was founded in 1978 by a group of employees of the
Ashanti Goldfields Corporation The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. Du ...
under the name of Goldfields Sporting Club famously known as Obuasi Goldfields. The employees pleaded with management of AGC to sponsor the team, but they were always refused. The employees continued to pay the salaries and costs for the team and in the 1984 season the club finished as
runner-up {{Short pages monitor Ashanti Gold SC has never matched the greatness of their three-year cup run, but have remained a top team in the First Capital Plus Bank Premier League. They continue to produce excellent footballers who have played throughout
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. AshGold goalkeeper George Owu, joined the Black Stars in their quest for the
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, but did not appear in a game. “Ashantigold SC will be demoted to Division Two League after being found guilty of match manipulation in their fixture against Inter Allies FC,” read part of the statement released by Ghana FA. “The decision takes effect from the 2022-23 league season. Officials of the club and players, who participated in the above-mentioned match have also been sanctioned by the disciplinary committee.” There were several reports within the local and international football space that the matchday 34 fixture at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium on July 17, 2021, which Ashantigold won 7–0, had been fixed to fulfil a correct score of five goals to one in their favour. The committee further explained the sanctions meted on Ashantigold: “That at the end of the 2021-22 Ghana Premier League season, Ashantigold shall be demoted to the Division Two League in accordance with Article 6(3)(h) of the GFA Disciplinary Code 2019.


Grounds

Ashanti Gold play their home matches at
Len Clay Stadium Len Clay Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Obuasi, Ghana. It was opened on 10 May 1990 and renovated on 17 April 2005 and is home to Ashanti Gold Sporting Club. It has capacity for 20,000 people. History Len Clay Stadium was opened on 10 May 1 ...
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Honours


Official trophies (recognized by CAF and FIFA)


National

*
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 ...
: 4 **1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96,
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* MTN FA Cup: 1 **1992–93 **''Runners-up'': 1984, 2011–12


Continental

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**Runners-up:
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...


Other trophies

* Ghana Telecom Gala: 1 **1995–96


Performance in CAF competitions

*
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: 4 appearances ::
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
 – ''Finalist'' ::
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
 – First Round ::
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
 – First Round ::
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
 Preliminary round *
African Cup of Champions Clubs 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 club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) a ...
: 1 appearance ::
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
 – Second Round *
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 ...
: 2 appearances ::
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
 – First Round ::
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
 — First Round *
CAF Cup The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions the African Cup of Champions Clubs or t ...
: 2 appearances ::
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
 – Quarter-finals ::
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 – First Round


Current squad

''As of December 2020''


Former notable players

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Abubakar Yakubu Abubakari Yakubu (; 13 December 1981 – 31 October 2017) was a Ghanaian footballer who played mainly as a defensive midfielder but also as a defender. Club career Born in Tema, Yakubu joined Ajax at only 17, going on to remain in the Netherla ...
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Jonathan Mensah Jonathan Mensah (born 13 July 1990), commonly known simply as Jonathan, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a defender. He previously played for Ashanti Gold, Free State Stars, Granada, Evian, Anzhi Makhachkala, Columbus Cre ...
* Mubarak Wakaso


Former coaches

* Paulistinha - Oswaldo Sampaio Júnior - former player of Botafogo FC in the 1960's. - Died in 2005 in Rio de Janeiro https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulistinha_(futebolista) *
Mohammed Gargo Mohammed Gargo (born 19 June 1975) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Playing career Club Torino Gargo's performances at the 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship brought him to the notice of European clubs' sc ...
* Momčilo "Momo" Medić *
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian football player and coach. International career Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup. Coac ...
(1990–93) *
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(1991–94) *
Charles Gyamfi Charles Kumi Gyamfi (4 December 1929 – 2 September 2015) was a Ghanaian footballer and coach, who as a player became the first African to play in Germany when he joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in 1960, and later became the first coach to lead the ...
(1992–93) *
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (18 October 1944 – 12 May 2015) was a Ghanaian football player and coach. International career Attuquayefio played many times for the Ghana national team and helped the team win the 1965 African Nations Cup. Coac ...
(1993–95) *
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(July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2002), (July 1, 2004 – Oct 5, 2005) *
Sam Arday Sam Arday (2 November 1945 – 12 February 2017) was a Ghanaian football coach who has managed the Ghana national side on two occasions – from 1996 to 1997, and again in 2004. He retired from the police service where his last position was a Sup ...
(Oct 31, 2004 – May 31, 2005) * David Duncan (July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2008) *
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(July 1, 2010 – Dec 15, 2011) * Joachim Yaw Acheampong (Dec 15, 2011 – Dec 18, 2012) *
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(Feb 13, 2012–2013) *
Bashir Hayford Bashir Hayford is a Ghanaian football manager who currently serves as manager for Ghana Premier League side Legon Cities. Career In August 2018, he was appointed as manager of the Ghana women's national football team. In March 2019, he was appo ...
(Jan 1, 2013 – 2017) *
Charles Akonnor Charles Kwabla Akonnor (born 12 March 1974) is a Ghanaian football manager and former player who most recently managed the Ghana national team. A former midfielder, he spent most of his club career in Germany. He made 51 appearances for the Gha ...
(Jan 2017 – July 2018) * Milovan Cirkovic (November 2020– February 2021)


Farm team

Royal Knight F.C.
is a Division Two League football club based in
Nsawam Nsawam is a town in south Ghana and is the capital of the Nsawam-Adoagyire Municipal District, a district in the country's Eastern Region. The town's main ethnic group is Akan, followed by Ga and then Ewe.Eastern region Eastern Region or East Region may refer to: * Eastern Region (Abu Dhabi): Al Ain *Eastern Region, Ghana *Eastern Region (Iceland) *Eastern Region, Malta *Eastern Region, Nepal *Eastern Region, Nigeria * Eastern Region, Serbia *Eastern Region, Ugand ...
and is also operating as a reserve team for Ashanti Gold SC. The club is currently not in operation.


References


External links

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at Global Sports Archive
Ashanti Gold S.C.
at Soccerway {{Ghana Premier League Football clubs in Ghana Association football clubs established in 1978 1978 establishments in Ghana Sports clubs and teams in Ghana Ashanti Region