History Ghana_national_football_team

black stars members in 1960s pose of ghana s successive international football trophies won.

the gold coast football association founded in 1920, succeeded ghana football association (gfa) in 1957, affiliated confederation of african football , fifa following year.

on 19 august 1962 @ accra sports stadium, black stars played spanish giants real madrid, @ time spanish champions, former european champions , intercontinental champions, , drew 3–3.

charles kumi gyamfi became coach in 1961, , black stars won successive african cup of nations titles, in 1963 , 1965, , achieved record win, 13–2 away kenya, shortly after second of these. reached final of tournament in 1968 , 1970, losing 1–0 on each occasion, dr congo , sudan respectively. domination of tournament earned black stars team nicknames of black stars of west africa , black stars of africa in 1960s. team had no success in fifa world cup qualification during era, , failed qualify 3 successive african cup of nations in 1970s, qualified olympic games football tournaments, becoming first team sub-saharan africa qualify games, , reaching quarter-finals in 1964 , withdrawing on political grounds in 1976 later winning 1982 african cup of nations. after 3 failures reach tournament final, 1992 african cup of nations saw black stars finish second.

21st century

black stars continuum

prior year 2000, disharmony among squad led parliamentary , executive intervention settle issues between 2 squad members, abedi pele , anthony yeboah in late 1990s, may have played part in failure of team build on successes of national underage teams in late 1990s, new generation of black stars players went 2001 fifa world youth championship final became core of team @ 2002 african cup of nations, , undefeated year in 2005 , reached finals of 2006 fifa world cup, first time team had reached global stage of tournament. black stars started succumbing 2–0 defeat eventual champions italy, wins on czech republic (2–0) , united states (2–1) saw them through second round, lost 3–0 brazil.

black stars squad line-up prior match

in 2008, ghana reached high ranking of 14 according fifa world rankings. black stars went on secure 100 percent record in qualification campaign, winning group , becoming first african team qualify 2010 fifa world cup. in final tournament, team competed in group d germany, serbia , australia. ghana reached round of 16 played united states, winning 2–1 in time become third african nation reach world cup quarter-finals. team lost uruguay in penalty shootout in quarter-finals, having missed penalty kick in time after goal prevented luis suárez s deliberate handball, shown red card actions.

in 2013 ghana became team in africa reach 4 consecutive semi-finals of caf africa cup of nations twice, 1963 , 1970 , 2008 , 2013.

ghana sufficiently highly ranked fifa start qualifying 2014 world cup in second round. won group, , in following round qualified 2014 world cup finals in november 2013, beating egypt 7–3 on aggregate in two-legged play-off. ghana drawn in group g finals, faced germany, portugal, , united states. world cup finals ended in disappointment ghana exited in group stages issues of poor planning , payment bonuses being blamed poor performance, although did manage 2–2 draw germany, ended winning competition.