{"id":247872,"date":"2026-04-28T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=247872"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:25:41","slug":"frederick-acheampong-declares-ashantigold-defunct-amid-internal-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/28\/frederick-acheampong-declares-ashantigold-defunct-amid-internal-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Acheampong declares AshantiGold defunct amid internal disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frederick Acheampong, former Executive Council member of the Ghana Football Association, has clarified that AshantiGold Sporting Club no longer exists following its demotion to Division Two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that after the club\u2019s relegation, efforts were made by some stakeholders to revive it, but those discussions were overshadowed by internal disagreements rather than a clear focus on football development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter the club\u2019s demotion to Division 2, leaders consulted on a possible comeback, but they were more interested in politics \u2014 fighting FC AshantiGold &#8217;04 over the name while the latter focused on football and complied with GFA directives,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His remarks suggest that while one faction was engaged in disputes over ownership and identity, another group concentrated on meeting regulatory requirements and continuing football activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former GFA official\u2019s statement brings clarity to the status of the once-prominent club, indicating that internal divisions played a key role in its collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Acheampong, former Executive Council member of the Ghana Football Association, has clarified that AshantiGold Sporting Club no longer exists&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[492,485,493,14,23],"class_list":["post-247872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories","tag-ashanti-gold-sc","tag-fc-ashantigold-04","tag-frederick-acheampong","tag-ghana-football","tag-ghana-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}