Breaking News: Nana Yaw Amponsah slapped with five-year football ban, to quit as Kotoko CEO

Published on: 30 June 2021
Breaking News: Nana Yaw Amponsah slapped with five-year football ban, to quit as Kotoko CEO
Nana Yaw Amponsah

Nana Yaw Amponsah will step down as the CEO of Ghanaian giants Asante Kotoko with immediate effect after he was slapped with a five-year ban by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Wednesday, Ghanasoccernet.com can reveal.

The decision by the Disicplinary Committee means that the former football agent will not be able to hold his position as the CEO of the Kumasi-based giants as he will not be qualified because of the ban.

The decision also ends Amponsah's hopes of contesting the Ghana FA presidential election in two years' time.

The football administrator has three days to appeal the decision at the Appeals Committee of the GFA.

Amponsah, who doubles as director of Division One club Phar Rangers FC, is suffering the consequences of the decision of the club to pull out of the league without just cause.

Even though the administrator resigned from Phar Rangers as the CEO of the second tier side, he maintained his position as the director or shareholder of the club which has forced the decision to ban him.

According to Article 13(3) of the GFA Division One League Regulations all directors of a club will be banned from all football activities for five years if their clubs pull out of GFA orgnisazed competitions without a just cause.

"That the Shareholders and Directors of Phar Rangers FC on the records are hereby also banned from all football activities for a period of five (5) years effective from this 2020/2021 football season in accordance with Article 13(3) of the GFA Division One League Regulations," the ruling from the Disciplinary Committee of the GFA read on Wednesday.

Phar Rangers announced their decision to pull out of the Division One League early this month as well as withdrawing from all GFA Competitions with immediate effect.

In the said letter, dated June 7, 2021, the Club stated that it should be considered as defunct henceforth which pormpted the Disciplinary Committee to activate the appropriate provisions in the GFA Rules & Regulations relating to withdrawals.

The Disciplinary Committee delibrated the matter before coming to the conclusion that all provisions of the GFA regulations must be enforced including banning their directors for five years.

If Amponsah is not satisfied with the decision of the Appeals Committee he can go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland to have his case heard.

But he will vacate his position as the CEO of Kotoko if he wants to fight the decision unless he places a stay of execution order on the GFA to prevent them from enforcing the decision of the Disciplinary Committee.

Phar Rangers have also been banned from playing in any competition in Ghana for five years and they will be relegated to lowest tier of Ghana football on their return after the ban expires.

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