{"id":1066832,"date":"2022-04-25T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/accra-cape-coast-stadia-to-be-submitted-to-caf-as-home-venues-for\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T19:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:30:32","slug":"accra-cape-coast-stadia-to-be-submitted-to-caf-as-home-venues-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/accra-cape-coast-stadia-to-be-submitted-to-caf-as-home-venues-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Accra, Cape Coast Stadia to be submitted to CAF as home venues for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Cape-Coast-Sports-Stadium-in-Central-Region-John-Mahamas-Legacy-Achievement-5-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Cape Coast Stadium\" title=\"Cape Coast Stadium\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Coast Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association (GFA) will\u00a0submit the Accra Sports Stadium and the Cape Coast Stadium as home venues for the upcoming 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coast and Accra Sports Stadium will be submitted to CAF for review as the two home venues for the Black Stars for the 2023 AFCON qualifiers subject to approval.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifiers are\u00a0scheduled for June with Ghana in Group E\u00a0alongside Madagascar, Angola, and the Central Africa Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Baba Yara Sports Stadium will not be part of the list as it has been removed from the list of approved venues by CAF to host international matches or category A games.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The stadium was given a one-match approval by CAF to host the 2022 World Cup playoff first leg against Nigeria on March 25.<\/p>\n<p>However, the continent\u2019s football governing body\u00a0notified the GFA last Thursday in a letter sent to the General Secretary that the stadium does not meet the standard of a modern stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will host Madagascar in the opening game of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers before playing away to the Central Africa Republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XWv5YG0IR18\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Denkyiramanhene Goes Home- Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (25-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWv5YG0IR18?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coast Stadium The Ghana Football Association (GFA) will\u00a0submit the Accra Sports Stadium and the Cape Coast Stadium as home venues for the upcoming 2023 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] qualifiers. Cape Coast and Accra Sports Stadium will be submitted to CAF for review as the two home venues for the Black Stars for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[813,710,3271,1314,815,5649,6014,109],"class_list":["post-1066832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-accra","tag-caf","tag-cape","tag-coast","tag-home","tag-stadia","tag-submitted","tag-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}