{"id":1075616,"date":"2022-05-04T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/ghana-to-host-games-at-cape-coast-stadium\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:16:16","slug":"ghana-to-host-games-at-cape-coast-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/04\/ghana-to-host-games-at-cape-coast-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana to host games at Cape Coast Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/4c54b1401a90fed6dfc4bc6d98964f7c-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Cape Coast Stadium\" title=\"Cape Coast Stadium\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Coast Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cape Coast stadium will host of Ghana\u2019s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers which kick off next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederations of African Football [CAF]\u00a0gave the\u00a0green light for the facility to replace the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, which was rejected by the continent\u2019s football governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting a Caf deadline of April 25 to provide its home venue for the May 30-June 14 leg of games, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) submitted the 15,000-capacity Cape Coast facility having had the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi declared unfit to host high-level international games in the category of the AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars placed in Group E to battle for one of two available tickets with Madagascar, Angola and Central African Republic (CAR).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s first game of the qualifiers will be at home to Madagascar on Wednesday June 1, 2022, with kick off confirmed for 19:00GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The second Group E qualifier follows on Sunday, June 5 \u2013 an away trip to the Central African Republic (CAR).<\/p>\n<p>Later in September, the Black Stars will engage in back-to-back games with Angola to mark days 3 and 4 of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will be hoping to book a place in the competition next year.<\/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=\"p6H0CCChuU8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kwapia Residents Kick Against Operations of Quarry \u2013 Adom TV News (3-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6H0CCChuU8?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 Cape Coast stadium will host of Ghana\u2019s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers which kick off next month. The Confederations of African Football [CAF]\u00a0gave the\u00a0green light for the facility to replace the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, which was rejected by the continent\u2019s football governing body. Meeting a Caf deadline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3271,1314,79,85,546,2066],"class_list":["post-1075616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cape","tag-coast","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-host","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075616","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=1075616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}