Ghanaian football championship 1956

The Ghanaian Football Championship 1956 ( English GAFA Championship ) was a championship in men's football organized by the Ghana Amateur Football Association (GAFA). The championship, organized by the GAFA based on the idea of Ken Harrison and chaired by Ohene Djan and Richard Akwei , was boycotted by the four clubs from Kumasi , which were subsequently excluded. During the season, these clubs were able to convince eight more to get out of the championship; at the end of the season only Accra Hearts of Oak and Sekondi Eleven Wise remained, who went down in the history of Ghanaian football as the first (unofficial) champion and runner-up, respectively.

• Accra Hearts of Oak , master
• Sekondi Eleven Wise , runner-up
• Out of play during the season: Accra Great Argonauts , Accra Great Olympics , Accra Standfast , Cape Coast Mysterious Dwarfs , Cape Coast Venomous Vipers , Obuasi Evertons , Obuasi Hearts of Oak Obuasi
• excluded from the championship after boycott before the start of the season: Kumasi Asante Kotoko , Kumasi Cornerstone , Kumasi Dynamos , Kumasi Evergreens

literature

• Ken Bediako : The National Soccer League of Ghana. The Full Story 1956-1995. Accra 1995.
  • Ghana 1956 ( English ) In: rsssf.com . Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  • History of Ghana Football ( English ) In: ghanaweb.com . Retrieved December 12, 2011.