{"id":779308,"date":"2020-01-09T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/09\/mtn-fa-cup-preliminary-round-commences-on-january-24\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:52:45","slug":"mtn-fa-cup-preliminary-round-commences-on-january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/09\/mtn-fa-cup-preliminary-round-commences-on-january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN FA Cup preliminary round commences on January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday,  9 January 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2020-01-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/46938585.295.jpg\" alt=\"GFA President,Kurt E.S Okraku\" title=\"GFA President,Kurt E.S Okraku\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>GFA President,Kurt E.S Okraku<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">The 2019\/20 MTN FA Cup preliminary round will start on January 24, 2019 across the country.<\/p>\n<p>18 Premier League sides will battle 48 Division One League clubs and 44 Division Two League clubs for the coveted trophy in a competition dubbed &#8216;Obia Nye Obia&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The third-tier sides will kick off the championship before the Division One and top flight sides join them in the next phase of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The final of this year&#8217;s FA Cup is scheduled for Sunday, July 26, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts of Oak and Asante Koko are the most successful clubs in the competition history having won the title on ten and nine times respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 9 January 2020 Source: Footballghana.com 2020-01-09 GFA President,Kurt E.S Okraku The 2019\/20 MTN FA Cup preliminary round will start on January 24, 2019 across the country. 18 Premier League sides will battle 48 Division One League clubs and 44 Division Two League clubs for the coveted trophy in a competition dubbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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