{"id":1170840,"date":"2022-08-08T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/tamale-city-gain-historic-promotion-to-the-ghana-premier-league\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:18:00","slug":"tamale-city-gain-historic-promotion-to-the-ghana-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/tamale-city-gain-historic-promotion-to-the-ghana-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamale City gain historic promotion to the Ghana Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Tamale City gain historic promotion to the Ghana Premier League\" title=\"Tamale City gain historic promotion to the Ghana Premier League\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Tamale City have been promoted to the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season after winning the promotion play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>The northern-based club booked their ticket with a 1-1 draw with Ebusua Dwarfs on Monday at the Accra Sports stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fireworks for Tamale City \ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>The northern based club have gained promotion to the Ghana Premier League after drawing 1-1 with Ebusua Dwarfs. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tamalecityfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@tamalecityfc<\/a> \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffe<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoySports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JoySports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXRICPTWx6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/nXRICPTWx6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffe Fent is here #NewSigning (@JoySportsGH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoySportsGH\/status\/1556689293468385284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is the first time Tamale City will participate in Ghana\u2019s top flight after they ended the play-offs with four points, just one point above Liberty Professionals who came in second.<\/p>\n<p>Tamale City took the lead courtesy an Isaac Mensah strike from the penalty spot. Dwarfs got their equaliser minutes later through a penalty converted by Richard Addai.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to secure promotion in the regular season, Tamale City were beaten by Nsoateman FC in a Division One League playoff game to determine who takes the spot in Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Tamale City grabbed their second chance with both hands after winning a three-way round-robin playoff for the runners-up of the three Division One zones.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff was organised by the Ghana Football Association to find a replacement for the demoted AshGold who were found guilty of match manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamale City have been promoted to the 2022\/23 Ghana Premier League season after winning the promotion play-offs. The northern-based club booked their ticket with a 1-1 draw with Ebusua Dwarfs on Monday at the Accra Sports stadium. Fireworks for Tamale City \ud83d\udca5 The northern based club have gained promotion to the Ghana Premier League after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1761,2994,85,2594,674,2726,6760,2821],"class_list":["post-1170840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-city","tag-gain","tag-ghana","tag-historic","tag-league","tag-premier","tag-promotion","tag-tamale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170840","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=1170840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}