Ghana Football Association
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The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is the governing body of association football in Ghana and is based in Accra the capital of Ghana.[2][3] Founded in 1957,[2] the Association was dissolved by the Ghanaian Minister of Sport, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, on 7 June 2018, after the discovery of corruption in the association through investigative videos.[4] In October 2019, a new president, Kurt Okraku, was elected as the association reconvened upon the completion of the work of the FIFA Normalization Committee.[5] Mark Addo was later elected vice president in November 2019.[6] Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has been re-elected as President of the Ghana Football Association during their 2023 Elective Congress in Tamale in the Northern region Ghana.[7]
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Founded | 1957 |
FIFA affiliation | 1958 |
CAF affiliation | 1960[1] |
President | Kurt Okraku |
General Secretary | Prosper Harrison Addo |
Website | http://www.ghanafa.org |