The powers conferred on match commissioners are slightly used during match days but the Professional League Board expects such officials who wield the authority to strictly apply the rules at league centres.

The second round of the league has witnessed the growing craze of pitch invasion by club officials which tends to disrupt the game.

Such invasions hold up play for long periods and the Robert Mensah stadium in Cape Coast ushered in the second round of the league with a temporal hold up close to 10 minutes during the Accra Hearts of Oak-Asante Kotoko clash.

But Welbeck Abra-Appiah, chairman of the Professional League Board (PLB) match commissioners wield enormous power to control this problem.

He says officials have the mandate to kick out unauthorised officials from the inner perimeter before a match.

According to the PLB boss, strict disciplinary measures would be applied to both match commissioners and recalcitrant club officials.

“The situation is getting embarrassing and we will take tough disciplinary measures to combat it,” Abra-Appiah said.

“The match commissioners have powers to ensure sanity at the venues by first of all sacking all unauthorised persons within the inner perimeter, but some of them have failed to do this.”

However, match commissioners who fail to enforce the rules would be axed, Welbeck Abra-Appiah says.