Asante Kotoko

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Asante Kotoko Football Club
Full name Kumasi Asante Kotoko
Nickname(s) Porcupine Warriors, Kotoko
Fabulous, Fabu
Founded 1935
Ground Kumasi Sports Stadium,
Kumasi, Ghana
Capacity 51,500
Chairman Mr. Sylvester Asare-Owusu
Manager vacant
League OneTouch Premier League
2004/05 OneTouch Premier League, Winner
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Asante Kotoko are one of the most successful football (soccer) clubs in Ghana as well as Africa, having won twenty national league titles. They have also twice been champions of Africa. The club's home ground is the 51,500 all-seater Kumasi Sports Stadium. The full name of the club is Kumasi Asante Kotoko.

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Asante Kotoko were founded by Kwasi Kumah, an Ashanti. The club was formally named in 1935 by its founding patron, Otumfuo Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, who held what was by then the ceremonial position of Asantehene.

Kum Apem A Apem Beba (in English, If you kill a thousand, a thousand more will come.)

1970, 1983
Runners-up - 1967, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1993
1959, 1963-65, 1967-69, 1972, 1975, 1980-83, 1986-88, 1991-93, 2005
1958, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1989/90, 1997/98, 2001
  • Ghana SWAG Cup: 11
1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005
  • Ghana Telecom Gala: 3
1999/00, 2001, 2005
  • Ghana Top Four Cup: 1
2003
  • Ghana Annual Republic Day Cup: 2
2004, 2005

Runners-up - 2002

Runners-up - 2005


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