{"id":974745,"date":"2022-02-03T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/gfa-extends-deadline-for-reduction-of-second-division-clubs\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T12:46:21","slug":"gfa-extends-deadline-for-reduction-of-second-division-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/gfa-extends-deadline-for-reduction-of-second-division-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"GFA extends deadline for reduction of second division clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"383\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ghana-FA-GFA-logo-696x383.jpg\"   alt=\"Ghana FA\" title=\"Ghana FA\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has taken a decision to extend the deadline for the reduction of teams at the 10 Regional Football Associations (RFAs) to the end of the 2023\/24 football season.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is to enable the RFAs to execute the assignment of bringing competitiveness and development to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Division Leagues gradually until the end of the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that the GFA in August 2020, issued a directive to the Regional Football Associations to take steps to reduce the number of Division 2 and Division 3 clubs within a period of two seasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The latest decision comes to replace that directive following numerous appeals from the 10 Regional Football Association Chairmen.<\/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=\"Y_NT8DaUQqY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nasia Tollbooth: Months after closure, hawkers still wait for reversal - Adom TV News (2-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_NT8DaUQqY?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>The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has taken a decision to extend the deadline for the reduction of teams at the 10 Regional Football Associations (RFAs) to the end of the 2023\/24 football season. The decision is to enable the RFAs to execute the assignment of bringing competitiveness and development to the 2nd\u00a0and 3rd\u00a0Division Leagues gradually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1236,361,4101,362,1615,2544],"class_list":["post-974745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-clubs","tag-deadline","tag-division","tag-extends","tag-gfa","tag-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974745","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=974745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}