The Ghana Football Association’s Congress has endorsed a proposal by the Professional League Board for the commencement of the new premier league season on August 20 at the end of its two-day ordinary session.

After a long debate Congress also approved a decision by the premier league clubs and the PLB that the first four teams on the league table should represent Ghana in the 2007 editions of the African club competitions.

The two-day session also saw the legislative body of the FA discussing a new format for the national division one league.

And the majority of members approved the proposal that the sub-middle league, the middle league and the playoff be scraped from the division one league program for the three winners of the zonal national league to earn automatic entrance into the premiership.

Having received approval of congress, the chairman of the Professional League Board, Welbeck Abra-Appiah, is optimistic the new season will be spared many of the perennial problems.

The season crafted to synchronize with the European calendar is to end by April next year.

The decision is to ensure that Ghana meets CAF's November 30 deadline for the submission of representatives for the Champions League and Confederations Cup competitions.


The 3.5 billion OneTouch sponsored Premier League would for the first time see a mandatory registration of colours by all the 16 Premiership clubs before its commencement next month.

It was decided that each club registers three sets of jerseys, one each for home and away games and the last one as a stand-bye in case of clash of jerseys.