2016 Ghanaian Premier League

First Capital Plus Premier League

Season	2016
Champions	Wa All Stars
Relegated	Hasaacas New Edubiase Techiman City
Champions League	Wa All Stars
Matches played	240
Goals scored	481 (2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Yahaya Mohammed (11)
Biggest home win	WAFA 5-0 Hasaacas (6 March 2016)
Biggest away win	6 matches Medeama 0-2 Hearts of Oak (28 February 2016) Hearts of Oak 1-3 Wa All Stars (3 April 2016) Liberty Professionals 0-2 Asante Kotoko (13 August 2016) Ebusua Dwarfs 0-2 Bechem United (20 August 2016) New Edubiase 1-3 Hearts of Oak (18 September 2016) Dreams 0-2 Ebusua Dwarfs (18 September 2016)
Highest scoring	Ashanti Gold 5-3 Asante Kotoko (14 September 2016)
Longest winning run	Aduana Stars Bechem United (5)
Longest unbeaten run	Ashanti Gold (9)
Longest winless run	Ashanti Gold Liberty Professionals New Edubiase (8)
Longest losing run	New Edubiase (6)
← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 18 September 2016.

The 2016 Ghanaian Premier League was the 60th season of top professional association football in Ghana. The season began on 21 January and concluded on 18 September with Wa All Stars winning their first league title.

Teams

The Ghanaian Premier League comprises 16 sides, of which the bottom three - Hasaacas, New Edubiase and Techiman City - will be relegated to the Division One.

Stadia and locations

Techiman

Location of the 2016 Ghanaian Premier League teams

Team	Stadium	Location	Capacity
Aduana Stars	Agyeman Badu Stadium	Dormaa Ahenkro	7003500000000000000♠5,000
All Stars	Wa Sports Stadium	Wa	7003500000000000000♠5,000
Asante Kotoko	Baba Yara Stadium	Kumasi	7004405280000000000♠40,528
AshantiGold	Len Clay Stadium	Obuasi	7004200000000000000♠20,000
Bechem United	Nana Gyeabour's Park	Bechem	7003500000000000000♠5,000
Berekum Chelsea	Berekum Sports Stadium	Berekum	7004100000000000000♠10,000
Dreams	Dawu Sports Stadium	Accra	7004100000000000000♠10,000
Ebusua Dwarfs	Cape Coast Sports Stadium	Cape Coast	7004150000000000000♠15,000
Hearts of Oak	Accra Sports Stadium	Accra	7004400000000000000♠40,000
Inter Allies	Tema Sports Stadium	Tema	7004100000000000000♠10,000
Liberty Professionals	Dansoman Park	Dansoman	7003200000000000000♠2,000
Medeama	TNA Park	Tarkwa	7004120000000000000♠12,000
New Edubiase United	Len Clay Stadium	Obuasi	7004200000000000000♠20,000
Sekondi Hasaacas	Sekondi-Takoradi Stadium	Sekondi-Takoradi	7004200000000000000♠20,000
Techiman City	Ohene Ameyaw Park	Techiman	7003200000000000000♠2,000
WAFA	Sogakope Stadium	Goma Fetteh	7003100000000000000♠1,000

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Wa All Stars (C) (Q)	30	15	6	9	31	22	+9	51	Qualification for 2017 CAF Champions League
2	Aduana Stars	30	14	7	9	42	24	+18	49
3	Hearts of Oak	30	12	12	6	31	26	+5	48
4	Medeama	30	13	7	10	34	31	+3	46		ASA 2-2 MED MED 1-1 ASA
5	Asante Kotoko	30	12	10	8	33	29	+4	46		ASA 2-2 MED MED 1-1 ASA
6	Bechem United	30	12	6	12	31	34	−3	42		BEC 2-0 WAF WAF 2-0 BEC
6	WAFA	30	11	9	10	31	22	+9	42		BEC 2-0 WAF WAF 2-0 BEC
8	Berekum Chelsea	30	12	4	14	26	27	−1	40		BER: 11 points DRE: 10 points EBU: 6 points ASH: 4 points
9	Dreams	30	11	7	12	30	34	−4	40
10	Ebusua Dwarfs	30	11	7	12	31	31	0	40
11	Ashanti Gold	30	8	16	6	32	31	+1	40
12	Inter Allies	30	9	11	10	34	31	+3	38		LIB 2-1 INT INT 1-0 LIB
13	Liberty Professionals	30	10	8	12	33	30	+3	38		LIB 2-1 INT INT 1-0 LIB
14	Hasaacas (R)	30	10	6	14	32	43	−11	36	Relegation to Division One
15	Techiman City (R)	30	9	7	14	28	41	−13	34
16	New Edubiase (R)	30	6	7	17	20	43	−23	25

Updated to games played on 18 September 2016.
Source: Standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals; 6) playoff
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Positions by round

	Leader
	Relegation to Ghana Football Leagues

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Wa All Stars	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Aduana Stars	9	13	16	13	12	10	13	9	8	5	3	2	2	3	2	4	4	4	4	6	3	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Hearts of Oak	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	4	2	3	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	3	3	3
Medeama	9	13	13	15	12	9	12	15	16	10	12	13	12	11	6	5	5	5	5	3	4	5	6	6	7	8	8	5	4	4
Asante Kotoko	9	13	14	14	10	16	9	8	9	9	5	4	3	4	3	3	2	2	2	4	5	6	4	4	4	4	3	4	5	5
Bechem United	1	5	4	6	7	12	14	12	12	11	10	10	13	12	14	13	14	12	12	13	14	12	15	13	11	7	7	6	6	6
WAFA	1	12	4	6	4	7	6	6	7	8	9	9	8	8	9	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	6	5	7	6	6
Berekum Chelsea	9	6	8	4	3	6	4	5	4	6	8	8	6	7	8	10	9	10	9	9	8	9	10	12	9	10	10	9	10	8
Dreams	1	1	1	3	6	3	2	3	6	3	6	6	7	6	7	7	6	7	6	5	6	4	5	5	6	5	5	7	8	9
Ebusua Dwarfs	9	13	15	15	16	14	16	13	14	15	16	16	16	15	15	14	15	14	14	11	13	10	9	8	8	9	11	12	11	10
Ashanti Gold	1	9	8	6	8	8	11	10	10	13	13	12	11	12	12	15	12	13	10	10	11	11	11	10	9	10	9	10	9	11
Inter Allies	1	11	10	10	10	15	9	14	15	16	15	15	15	14	13	11	13	15	15	14	15	14	14	15	15	15	14	13	12	12
Liberty Professionals	9	8	7	4	9	4	7	4	3	4	7	7	5	5	5	6	7	6	8	8	9	8	8	9	12	12	12	11	13	13
Hasaacas	9	4	11	11	12	11	8	11	11	14	11	11	10	10	11	12	10	11	13	15	12	15	13	14	14	14	15	14	15	14
Techiman City	1	7	4	6	4	5	5	7	5	7	4	5	9	9	10	9	11	9	11	12	10	13	12	11	13	13	13	15	14	15
New Edubiase	9	9	11	11	12	13	15	16	13	12	14	14	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

Last updated: 18 September 2016
Source: Soccerway (French)

Top scorers

Rank	Goalscorer	Team	Goals
1	Yahaya Mohammed	Aduana	11
2	Latif Blessing	Liberty	10
3	Sadick Adams	Chelsea	8
	Eric Bekoe	Hasaacas	8
	Kwesi Donsu	Medeama	8
6	Lawson Bekui	Dreams	7
6	Dauda Mohammed	Asante Kotoko	7
8	Bright Adjei	Aduana	6
	Bernard Arthur	Liberty	6
	Richard Arthur	Wa	6
	Frederick Boateng	Inter Allies	6
	Cosmos Dauda	Oak	6

Updated to games played on 10 July 2016
Source: soccerway.com

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Samuel Tetteh	WAFA	Hasaacas	5-0^[1]	000000002016-03-06-00006 March 2016
Yahaya Mohammed	Aduana Stars	Hasaacas	4-0^[2]	000000002016-04-20-000020 April 2016
Dauda Mohammed	Asante Kotoko	Techiman City	4-2^[3]	000000002016-05-29-000029 May 2016
Latif Blessing	Liberty Professionals	Hasaacas	4-0^[4]	000000002016-07-27-000027 July 2016

References

↑ "WAFA destory [sic] Hasaacas - SuperSport - Football". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
↑ "Match Report: Aduana Stars 4-0 Sekondi Hasaacas- Yahaya Mohammed bags hat-trick in stroll in the park win - GHANAsoccernet.com". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
↑ "Kotoko 4-2 Techiman City - Dauda nets hat trick in Porcupines win | Soccer News 2016-05-29". Retrieved 30 May 2016.
↑ "Liberty Professionals defeats Sekondi Hasaacas | Other Sports 2016-07-27". Retrieved 2 August 2016.

Football in Ghana

Ghana Football Association

National teams

League system

Men	Ghana Premier League Ghana Football Leagues Division 1 League Division 2 League Division 3 League GAFCOA

Women	Ghana Women's Football League

Domestic cups

Men	Ghanaian FA Cup Ghana Super Cup

Awards

Ghana Player of the year

List of clubs
Men's clubs
Women's clubs
Venues
Champions
Men's players
Women's players
Expatriate players
Managers
Records

First Capital Plus Bank Premier League · 2014–15

Aduana Stars All Stars Asante Kotoko Ashanti Gold Bechem United Berekum Chelsea Heart of Lions Hearts of Oak Inter Allies Liberty Professionals Medeama SC New Edubiase United Sekondi Hasaacas

2015 in African Football (CAF)

« 2014 2016 »

Domestic leagues	Algeria 14–15 15–16 Angola 14–15 15–16 Benin 14-15 15-16 Botswana 14–15 15–16 Burkina Faso 14–15 15–16 Burundi 14–15 15–16 Cameroon Cape Verde Chad Congo Côte d'Ivoire 14–15 15–16 Democratic Republic of Congo 14–15 15–16 Djibouti 14–15 15–16 Egypt 14–15 15–16 Ethiopia 14–15 15–16 Gabon Gambia 14–15 15–16 Ghana 15 15–16 Guinea 14–15 15–16 Kenya Lesotho 14–15 15–16 Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali 14–15 15–16 Mauritania 14–15 Mauritius 14–15 Morocco 14–15 15–16 Mozambique Namibia 14–15 15–16 Nigeria Réunion Rwanda 14–15 15–16 Senegal 14–15 Somalia 14–15 South Africa 14–15 15–16 Sudan Swaziland 14–15 Tanzania 14–15 Togo Tunisia 14–15 15–16 Uganda 14–15 15–16 Zambia Zimbabwe

Domestic cups	Algeria 14–15 15–16 Angola Egypt Kenya South Africa 14–15 15–16 Tunisia 14–15 15–16 Uganda 14–15 15–16

Supercups	Algeria Angola Côte d'Ivoire Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Mauritania Mali

Regional club cups	Kagame Interclub Cup UNAF Club Cup

CAF club competitions	CAF Champions League qualifying rounds group stage knockout stage final CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds group stage knockout stage final CAF Super Cup

International competitions	Africa Cup of Nations Africa U-23 Cup of Nations CECAFA Cup COSAFA Cup

2016 in African Football (CAF)

« 2015 2017 »

Domestic leagues	Algeria 15–16 16–17 Angola Benin 15–16 16–17 Botswana 15–16 16–17 Burkina Faso 15–16 16–17 Burundi 15–16 16–17 Cameroon Cape Verde Chad Congo Côte d'Ivoire 15–16 16–17 Democratic Republic of Congo 15–16 16–17 Djibouti 15–16 16–17 Egypt 15–16 16–17 Ethiopia 15–16 16–17 Gabon 15-16 16-17 Gambia 15–16 16–17 Ghana Guinea 15–16 16–17 Kenya Lesotho 15–16 16–17 Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali 15–16 16–17 Mauritania 15–16 Mauritius 15–16 Morocco 15–16 16–17 Mozambique Namibia 15–16 Nigeria men women Rwanda 15–16 16–17 Senegal 15–16 16-17 Somalia 15–16 South Africa 15–16 16–17 Sudan Swaziland 15–16 Tanzania 15–16 Togo Tunisia 15–16 16–17 Uganda 15–16 16–17 Zambia Zimbabwe

Domestic cups	Algeria 15–16 16–17 Angola Egypt 15–16 16–17 Morocco South Africa 15–16 16–17 Tunisia 15–16 16–17 Uganda 15–16 16–17

Supercups	Algeria Angola Egypt Kenya Mali

Regional cups	Arab World Club Cup

CAF club competitions	CAF Champions League qualifying rounds group stage knockout stage final CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds group stage knockout stage final CAF Super Cup

International competitions	Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics men's tournament women's tournament CECAFA Cup COSAFA Cup

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