Asante Kotoko SC

The Asante Kotoko FC is one of the most successful football clubs in Ghana. The association of Kumasi with 22 league titles won with Hearts of Oak giants. Seven runners-up in the CAF Champions League also could be taken two times the Cup. The name refers to the people of the Ashanti ( Asante Twi in ), whose capital is the national animal of Kumasi and the Ashanti, the porcupine ( in Twi Kotoko ). Therefore, in the renaming of the club in its present name had the head of the Ashanti, the Asantehene, for permission to be asked. In addition, the current Asantehene is always also honorary president of the club. The motto of the club is Kuma APEM A, Apem Beba and means something like if you kill a thousand, thousand new and come to represent the invincibility of the club.

Achievements

  • Ghanaian champion: 1959, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012
  • Ghanaian Vice Champion: 1960, 1962, 1963, 1976, 1979, 1985, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009
  • CAF Champions League: Winner ( 2): 1970, 1983
  • Finalist ( 5): 1967, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1993
  • Finalist: 2002
  • Finalist: 2004

Former Players

Baba Yara Stadium Ghana Premier League Ashanti people List of rulers of Asante CAF Confederation Cup Issah Gabriel Ahmed Accra Hearts of Oak SC Aduana Stars All Stars FC Amidaus Professionals Ashanti Gold SC Heart of Lions F.C. King Faisal Babes FC Liberty Professionals F.C. New Edubiase United
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