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| Full name | Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club | ||
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| Nickname | Phobia "Arose" | ||
| Founded | 11 November 1911; 114 years ago (1911-11-11) | ||
| Ground | Accra Sports Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 40,000 | ||
| Chairman | Togbe Afede XIV | ||
| Manager | Didi Dramani | ||
| League | Ghana Premier League | ||
| 2024–25 | 5th | ||
| Website | https://www.heartsofoaksc.com/ | ||
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Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club, commonly referred to asHearts of Oak or justHearts, is a professionalsports club based inAccra (Greater Accra),Ghana.[1] Founded in 1911, the club is the oldest surviving football club in Ghana, and its traditional colours are red, yellow and blue. Hearts of Oak competes in theGhana Premier League; the premier division on the Ghanaian football pyramid. TheAccra Sports Stadium is the club's home grounds.
Hearts has won the Premier League twenty-one times,Ghanaian FA Cup a record twelve times,[2]Ghana Super Cup a joint record of three times[3][4], thePresident's Cup six times,[5][6][7] theCAF Champions League and theCAF Confederation Cup.[8]
Accra Hearts of Oak was also ranked the 8th football club in the world in 2000 when the club dominated most of the continent's sporting activities.[9] Accra Hearts of Oak remains the only football club in West Africa to have won aContinental Treble; one of 6 Africa-based clubs, and one of 21 football clubs worldwide to have achieved this feat.
During the colonial period, Hearts of Oak won a combined total of eight football league trophies in theAccra Football League and theGold Coast Club Competition, both precursors to the Ghana Premier League.[10] In the Accra Football League, Hearts of Oak won the Guggisberg Shield donated by SirGordon Guggisberg, then Governor of the Gold Coast in 1922; the competition for Accra-based clubs was played on 12 occasions between 1922 and 1954; Hearts of Oak won the Shield six times, including the final tournament played in 1954.[11]
As of 2020, Accra Hearts of Oak SC is one of the most valuable football clubs from Ghana, valued at $5.3 million.[12]
The club was founded on 11 November 1911, in Accra.[13] Hearts of Oak won their first major match in 1922 when SirGordon Guggisberg, then Governor of theGold Coast, founded theAccra Football League. Hearts won 6 out of 12 seasons in this league. The club also won the 1953/54 edition of theGold Coast Club Competition – the colonial precursor to the Ghana Premier League.[10] In 1956, Hearts joined the Ghanaian Football League and have flourished ever since.[14]
In the year 2000, the Hearts of Oak won the Ghanaian FA cup, theGhana Premier League and for the first time in their history theCAF Champions League.[15] This was the most successful year in the club's history.[16] The team was led by club captain,Joseph Ansah.[17]
On 9 May 2001, 127 people died in Africa's worst footballing disaster. During a match between rivals, Hearts of Oak andAsante Kotoko. Trouble started when supporters of Asante Kotoko began ripping out seats in an act ofhooliganism in protest at a goal allowed by the referee. The match was officiated by referee J. Wilson Sey,[18] fromCape Coast. Police reacted by firingtear gas into the crowd, it has been suggested that this was an over-reaction. Reports suggest that the gates to the ground were locked and the stadium was not up to FIFA standards. The rush to escape the tear gas was a contributory factor to the death toll. A commission of inquiry, indicted six police officers in its initial report, but they were not convicted as it was deemed that the deaths could have been caused by the stampede instead of the tear gas.[19][20]
As of 2020, the transfer value of the Accra Hearts of Oak was £2.03 million, the highest of all sports clubs in Ghana.[21]
Accra Hearts of Oak play home matches at theAccra Sports Stadium. The Accra Sports Stadium holds an estimated 40,000 seats. Although purchased in the 1980s, the Pobiman Training Ground was only put to use in the summer of 2018. Construction for an expansion of the 19-acre site in the Pobiman neighborhood, is currently in the planning stages way. The club plans to build a state-of-the-art facility.
Accra Hearts of Oak's longest established rivalry is withAsante Kotoko S.C. and their city rivalsAccra Great Olympics FC.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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[22][23]Reference as of 12 March 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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For all former players with a Wikipedia article seeCategory:Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players
List of managers since 1991
Petre Gavrilă (1991–95)
Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (1998–01)Herbert Addo (2002–03)
Ernst Middendorp (2004)Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (2004) Archibald Lamptey (2004–05)Emmanuel Ofei Ansah (2005)[28]
Eyal Lahman (2008)
Kosta Papić (2008–09)[29]Nebojša Vučićević (2011–12)[30]Charles Akonnor (2012)[31]David Duncan (2012–13)[32]Mohammed Ahmed (Polo) (Interim) (2014)[33]Herbert Addo (2014–2015)[34]
Kenichi Yatsuhashi (2015–2016)[35]
Sérgio Traguil (2016 –2016)[36]
Frank Nuttall (2017–18)[37]Henry Wellington Lamptey (2018)[38]Seth Hoffmann (2018)[38]
Kim Grant (2018–2019)[39] Edward Nii Odoom (2020)[40]Kosta Papić (2020–2021)[41][42] Samuel Nii Noi (Interim) (2021)[43]Samuel Boadu (2021–2022)[44]Slavko Matic (2022–2023)[45]
Martin Koopman (2023)[46]
Aboubakar Ouattara (2023-date)[47]
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