Cornerstone FC

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The Kumasi Cornerstone Football Club , or Cornerstone or Cornerstones for short , is a Ghanaian football club from Kumasi , founded in 1931 , which was cup winners in 1959 and 1965 and won the WAFU Club Cup in 1987 .

history

Cornerstone was founded in 1931 by predominantly migrated youth of the Fante -Volkes in Fante New Town founded, a suburb of Kumasi. The club initially took part in the national soccer championship of 1956 , but boycotted the competition together with the other clubs in the Ashanti region after a dispute with the United Gold Coast Amateur Football Association , which was finally canceled. Two years later, Cornerstone was one of the eight founding members of the Ghana Football League , in the first two seasons of the league they could celebrate the national runner-up behind Hearts of Oak and city rival Asante Kotoko . In 1959 Cornerstone won the Football Association Cup for the first time in the club's history because the final opponent Hasaacas had been excluded from the competition a few days before the game by the league administration. After losing the cup final in 1963 after a 1-1 draw with 0-2 in a replay against the model club Real Republikans , they were declared cup winners two years later together with them. This decision was preceded by two draws by both clubs. In the 1973 and 1986 seasons, Cornerstone again reached the runner-up, in 1987 the club from Kumasi won the final of the WAFU Club Cup against the Stella Club d'Adjamé (1: 1 and 1: 1, 4: 2 in total. ). In 1989, Cornerstone lost the final of the national soccer cup against Hearts of Oak on penalties . In 1992 the first relegation to the second division followed, after the brief stint in the Premier League in 1994/95 you had to accept the relegation again. In the decades that followed, seasons were added in the Division One League , but also in the third-class Division Two League and the fourth-class Division Three League .

The Kumasi Sports Stadium regularly served as the club's home ground . Well-known former players of the club are Dickson Afoakwa , Joe Aikins , Armah Akuetteh , Owusu Ampomah , Nana Asare , Ben Koufie , Frimpong Manso , Abdul Razak , Baba Sule and Anthony Yeboah .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Club name after Ackon buried. In: Daily Graphic, March 26, 1969, p. 12.
  2. ^ Matthews cuts his program. In: Daily Graphic, May 29, 1957, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Enoch Worlanyo: The role of the church in association football. In: myjoyonline.com (April 5, 2019).
  4. ↑ Ken Bediako : The complete history of the Ghana Football League 1958–2012. ISBN 9988-1-7251-0 , pp. 4-5.
  5. ^ A b Catch all the thrills: Ghana FA Cup rundown from 1958 to 2015. In: modernghana.com (August 27, 2015).
  6. ^ Gerd Heuser, Hans Schöggl: Ghana - List of Final Tables. In: rsssf.com (December 13, 2018).
  7. ↑ Erik Garin: UFOA Cup 1987. In: rsssf.com (October 9, 2007).