Asante Kotoko SC

Asante Kotoko SC
Basic data
Surname	Asante Kotoko Sporting Club
Seat	Kumasi ( Ashanti )
founding	1935
president	Sylvester Asare-Owusu
Website	asantekotokosc.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Bashiru Hayford
Venue	Baba Yara Stadium , Kumasi , Ghana
Places	40,500
league	Ghana Premier League
home Away

The Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club Limited , formerly Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club , asante Kotoko SC or Asante Kotoko for short , is a football club from the Ghanaian city ​​of Kumasi . It was founded on August 31, 1935 and with 24 Ghanaian championship titles is the most successful club in the country, ahead of its arch-rival Hearts of Oak SC . In 1970 and 1983 the club won the CAF Champions League , and between 1967 and 1993 the team was defeated a total of five times in the finals of the most important African club competition. In January 2010, Asante Kotoko was named the “ Most Successful African Association of the 20th Century” by the IFFHS .

history

The name refers to the people of the Ashanti (in Twi Asante), whose capital is Kumasi, and the national animal of the Ashanti, the porcupine (in Twi Kotoko). Therefore, when the club was renamed to its current name, the head of the Ashanti, the Asantehene , had to be asked for permission. In addition, the current Asantehene is always honorary president of the club. The club's motto is Kuma Apem A, Apem Beba and means something like If you kill a thousand, a thousand new ones will come and is intended to represent the invincibility of the club.

successes

• Ghanaian Champion : (24) 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Runner-up: 1960, 1962, 1963, 1976, 1979, 1985, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009
• Ghana Cup : (8) 1958, 1959, 1960, 1978, 1984, 1997–98, 2001, 2014
• CAF Champions League :
  • Winner (2) : 1970, 1983
  • Finalist (5) : 1967, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1993
• African Cup Winners' Cup :
  • Finalist: 2002
• CAF Confederation Cup :
  • Finalist: 2004

Known players

• Harrison Afful
• Issah Ahmed
• George Arthur
• Isaac Boakye
• Robert Boateng
• Kweku Essien
• Samuel Inkoom
• Samuel Kuffour
• Nii Lamptey
• Habib Mohamed
• Alex Nyarko
• George Owu
• Prince Polley
• Illiasu Shilla
• Ibrahim Sunday
• Isaac providence
• Baba Yara
• Abdul Rahman Baba

Trainer

• Carlos Alberto Parreira (1968)
• Ernst Middendorp (1999-2002)
• Ralf Zumdick (2003)
• Hans-Dieter Schmidt (2004-2005)

Web links

• Official club website ( asantekotokosc.com ), formerly asantekotokofc.org (2007–2015).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kotoko mark 80th birthday ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: asantekotokosc.com (August 31, 2015).
2. ^ Asantehene Inaugurates Kotoko Board , in: ghanaweb.com (September 30, 1997).
3. ↑ Kevin S. Fridy, Victor Brobbey: Win the match and vote forme: the politicization of Ghana's Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko football clubs. In: The Journal of Modern African Studies. Volume 47, No. 1, 2009, doi: 10.1017 / S0022278X08003649 , pp. 19–39 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ). 
4. ^ Kotoko is Africa's Club of the century , in: ghanaweb.com (January 4, 2010).