Ghana Premier League side, Accra Lions has issued a bold statement about the current state of the Ghana Football.
Accra-based club issued their heartfelt messages to the entire football fans, football people on their official Facebook page on Monday 6th January 2025.
A portion of the statement read
Read the full statement below:
“We owe it a duty to our fans, the football community and the public to express our concern about recent developments in the Ghanaian football landscape. In our opinion, the results at the international level is a reflection of the development at the local level.
We are playing our fourth season in Ghana’s top division and unfortunately we have to admit that the conditions are steadily deteriorating. There is now no sponsor for the league, nor has a television contract been negotiated at this point.
How will the league ever acquire sponsors again if refereeing performances like yesterday’s become the standard and any criticism is immediately sanctioned by the association? Lots of incidents and happenings have gone unattended, an experience that has left us with more questions than answers.
Such tendencies continues to chip away every sense of the definition of the trust our esteemed fans and the public have reposed in us.
Ghana football is at a crossroads. If we want to get back to our old strength, it requires a minimum of integrity, professionalism, transparency and sportsmanship. As the reigning runner-up of the Ghana Premier League we see it as our duty not to stand idly by.
We have consistently committed ourselves to working with young players and must be allowed to raise the question of whether the Ghana Premier League, as we are experiencing it these days, is a healthy environment for highly talented young players who should develop a proper sporting spirit and a winning mentality to make them internationally competitive.
We are determined to join whichever group or organization(s) to make the sport a clean one and better for healthy competition.
We have resolved to stand by the games principle of FairPlay and speak truth to power”.
Accra Lions have played 16 matches of the ongoing Ghana Premier League with 13 points and on the 17th of the league log.
