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Global football governing body, FIFA has banned Chad from football until further notice. The decision was taken by the Bureau of the Fifa Council on Wednesday and takes effect immediately. Note that in December 2020, Fifa had rejected a request from the country’s ministry of sports to dissolve the Chadian Football Federation. …

The Federation of International Football Association (Fifa) has appointed a normalisation committee to run the affairs of the Ivorian Football Federation. Fifa’s decision was taken as a result of the country’s inability to carry out an electoral process for a new Executive Committee in accordance with the requirement valid to …

Ghana ends the year 2020 as the 52nd best men’s national football team in the world, according to the latest Fifa Rankings. Released on Thursday on Fifa’s official website, the new table sees the Black Stars, sandwiched between Greece (51) and Costa Rica (53), locked on their position from last month, …

President of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has appealed his five-year ban from football-related activities at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas). Fifa’s adjudicatory chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee found him guilty of abuse of office, misappropriation of funds and, offering gifts and other benefits as Caf …

Confederation of African Football (CAF), President Ahmad Ahmad has been given a five-year ban by the world governing football body, FIFA after being found guilty of receiving gifts and misappropriation of funds. The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Ahmad Ahmad, the President of the Confederation of …

The world’s football governing body, FIFA, has written to the Ghana Football Association to mourn the death of the country’s former Head of State Ft. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. H.E Rawlings died on Thursday, 12 November 2020, at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital in Accra at age 73. Unconfirmed reports …

The Ghana Football Association (GFA), as part of the ongoing transition and evolution of Ghana Beach Soccer, will host over twenty clubs in an online training program at the FA headquarters in Accra.   The training is essential to equip Beach Soccer club officials with basic and requisite IT skills/ …

FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has expressed his condolences to the victims of last Saturday’s tragic car accident involving some young footballers on the Offinso road. In a letter to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), President of the World football governing body, underlined his support to families of the eight footballers …

The verdict by the Court Arbitration for Sports on the case involving Osei Kwaku Palmer and the Ghana Football Association is a ‘complete vindication’ of the Normalization Committee who in their capacity as Elections Committee disqualified Palmer from contesting last year’s GFA elections, Dr Kofi Amoah, president of the NC …

Members of the Ghana FA congress seeking to make large amendments to the statutes of the federation have suffered a huge blow after FIFA told the members that the current laws of the GFA are adequately balanced to cater for all interests in the game. The world governing body said …