Ghana Premier League 2021/2022 season officially launched
The 2021/2022 Ghana Premier League season was officially launched this afternoon at the Ghana Football Association Secretariat.
The new season will see 18 clubs battling out it for supremacy in 34 games including the defending champions Accra Hearts of Oak.
The GFA promised to award the best referee with a brand new car in a bid to safeguard the several manhandling that came out last season.
The winner of the Premier League will be pocketing 250,000 cedis as prize money with the 2nd and 3rd placed teams earning 150,000 cedis and 80,000 cedis respectively.
The new season will see new changes and updates on how things were managed last season from on the field action to off the field action.
Television broadcast right owners of the Ghana Premier League, StarTimes, announced they will invest $1 million in the Ghana Premier League during the upcoming league season.
This was announced during the launch by the marketing manager of Startimes in Ghana, Akorfa Banson, who also said that various improvements will be added to the TV product.
The Ghana Football Association unveiled Tempo as the new match ball for the 2021/2022 Ghana Premier League season, signing a three-year deal.
The new ball is predominantly white with an S-shaped red and black figure decorated around it. The ball, also has the GFA logo as well as the FIFA logo.
Each club in the Premier League, Division One and Women’s League will have 10 balls for match days and 20 for training sessions for the season.
This means Tempo now has taken over Macron who sponsored the previous season won by Accra Hearts of Oak.
The General Secretary of the GFA, Prosper Addo promised that the Ghanaian football calendar will revert to July start at the conclusion of this season.
“The season is meant to start in July 1st and end June 30th and GFA is working to revert back”
He lamented that due to the COVID 19 the football calendar had been thrown out of sync so it was an aberration that clubs were not playing football.
This move would mean the next league champions would be unlikely to face the same fitness issues 2021 champions Accra Hearts of Oak faced in their CAF Champions League qualifying campaign.
The 2021/22 Ghana Premier League will kick off on the weekend of Friday, October 29 to Monday, November 1, 2021 across all the nine Premier League centres.
Newly promoted side Accra Lions will open the 2021/22 Premier League season with a home fixture against Elmina Sharks at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday night.
