Their domination of this tournament earned the Black Stars team the nicknames of "the Black Stars of West Africa" and "the Black Stars of Africa" in the 1960s. They also reached the final of the tournament in 19, losing 1–0 on each occasion, to DR Congo and Sudan respectively. Ĭharles Kumi Gyamfi became coach in 1961, and the Black Stars won successive African Cup of Nations titles, in 19, and achieved their record win, 13–2 away to Kenya, shortly after the second of these. On 19 August 1962 at the Accra Sports Stadium, the Black Stars played Spanish giants Real Madrid, who were at the time Spanish champions, former European champions and intercontinental champions, and drew 3–3. The Gold Coast Football Association was founded in 1920, succeeded by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in 1957, which affiliated to Confederation of African Football and FIFA the following year. 7.5 West African Nations Cup and WAFU Nations Cup recordīlack Stars members in the 1960s pose with some of Ghana's successive international football trophies won.7.3 African Nations Championship record.1.2 21st century: rise to prominence and decline.At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they became only the third African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, and in 2014 they competed in their third consecutive World Cup. After going through 2005 unbeaten, the Ghana national football team won the FIFA Best Mover of the Year Award and reached the second round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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The team is a member of both FIFA and CAF.Īlthough the team qualified for the senior FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2006, they had qualified for four Olympic Games Football Tournaments when the tournament qualifiers was still a full senior national team competition for African teams their best achievement was the third position at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Prior to 1957, the team played as the Gold Coast. It is governed by the Ghana Football Association(GFA) the governing body for football in Ghana and the oldest football association in Africa (founded in 1920). The team is nicknamed the Black Stars after the Black Star of Africa in the flag of Ghana. The team consists of twenty players including the technical team. The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in men's international football and has done so since the 1950s. Gold Coast and British Togoland 1–0 Nigeria