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Club Honours
(By:
Charles Osei)
History
The foundation of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club was laid by
13 young Ashanti boys led by a young driver, Mr. Kwasi Kumah,
ably supported by L.Y.Asamoah an electrician. Mr. Kwasi Kumah, a
native of Nyankyerenease near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of
Ghana, was a chauffeur to an English colonial military officer,
Colonel Ross, in Accra. While in Accra, Kwasi Kumah nurtured the
idea of forming a football team when he watched an exciting
football match between Accra Standfast and Hearts of Oak. Hearts
won the match 2-1 and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, then Governor of
the Gold Coast, presented a set of jerseys to Hearts for their
good performance.
When Colonel Ross returned home for good and Kumah went back
home to Kumasi, he bought a set of jerseys to start his football
team. With co-operation from his good friend, L.Y.Asamoah, he
formed the Ashanti
United Football Club in
1926. Five years later the team was renamed Kumasi
Titanics. The team was really handicapped because most of
the players worked in government organizations like the Prisons
and Railways and had been transferred from Kumasi. Titanics did
not find enough luck in their new name and in 1934 they adopted
a more powerful name, Mighty
Atoms. Still the club did not see much progress and in 1935,
Mr J.S.K. Frimpong, popularly called Teacher Frimpong, then a
teacher of the Kumasi Government School who had all the time
shown interest in the club, organized some boys from his school
and proposed a change of name from Titanics to Kumasi
Asante Kotoko Football Club. Permission had to be obtained
from the Asantehene (King of Ashanti) because the name "Kotoko",
meaning "Porcupine" is the official symbol of the Ashanti
nation. The Asantehene, Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh
II, became the first life patron of the club. Kumasi Asante
Kotoko Football Club was subsequently formally founded in 1935.
Asante Kotoko's emblem features the "Porcupine", displaying an
inbuilt arsenal of sharp spikes for use when attacked by an
enemy.
In July 2011, Asante Kotoko and English Premier
League club Sunderland signed
a partnership agreement, which will see the Sunderland offering
practical support and advice in youth coaching, player
development, fitness and medical matters as well as football
business strategy to Kotoko.
Honours
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1970, 1983,
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Runners-up -
1967, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1993
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Runners-up -
2002
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Runners-up -
2004
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1959, 1963/64, 1964/65, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975,
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988/89, 1990/91,
1991/92, 1992/93, 2003,2005, 2007/08
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1958, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1989/90, 1997/98, 2001
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1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2001,
2003, 2005, 2008
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1999/00, 2001, 2005
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2003, 2007
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2004, 2005, 2008
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2004 -
Third Round
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2005 -
First Round
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2006 -
Group Stage
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2007 -
Preliminary Round
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2009 -
First Round
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2010 -
Preliminary Round
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2004 - Finalist
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2008 - Group
Stage
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1995 - Quarter-Finals
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1997 - Second Round
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1979 - First Round
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1985 - Quarter-Finals
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1991 - First Round
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1999 - Second Round
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2002 - Finalist
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2003 - Quarter-Finals
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2005 - First Round
Most
Memorable Squads
Squad included: Robert Mensah, Ben Acheampong, Dogo Moro,
Cifford Odame, Sammy Stevens, Adarkwa, Ibrahim
Sunday (Captain),
Yaw Sam, Osei Kofi, Abukari Gariba, Albert Essuman "Baby Pele", Malik
Jabir, Ohene Brenya, Sulley, Osmanu
Head Coach: Aggrey-Fynn
Club President: I. K. Moukerzel
Sam Ampeh, Haruna Yusif, Samuel "Old" Gyabaah, Charles Oppong,
Seth Ampadu, Ahmed Rockson , Papa Arko, George Kennedy, Albert
Asase, Opoku Afriyie (Captain), Kofi Badu, Francis Kumi, John
Abeka, Karim Zito, Joe Gyekye, Addae Kyenkyehene, Nuru Mohammed,
Opoku Nti,
Head Coach: J. E. Adabie
Club President: Phill Simms (Spent his personal money on
acquisition of players)
Joseph Carr, Ernest Apau, Kwasi Appiah, Seth Ampadu, Addae
Kyenkyehene, Papa Arko (Captain), John Smith Bannerman, Yahya
Kassum, Ebo Mends, Opoku Nti*, Isaac Afranie, Arkye Ezuah,
Charles Kwame Sampson, Ahmed Rockson, Emmanuel "Joe Tex" Quaye,
Francis Agyeman
- Samuel Opoku
Nti was voted as Africa's Best Player of the Year by the
African Sportswriters Association and 2nd Best African
Player of the Year by France Football
Head Coach: Ibrahim
Sunday
Team Manager: Malik
Jabir
Masseur: Omono Asamoah
Club President: Ernest Yaw Bawuah
Mohammed Odoom, Nana Eshun, Kwaku Kyere, Thomas "Gambo" Hammond,
Ahmed Rockson, Abdul Razak (Captain), Sam Ayippey, Sarfo Gyamfi,
Prince Opoku Polley, George Arthur, Windsor Kofi Abbrey, Anthony
Osei Kwadwo, Kwaku Menkah, Saarah Mensah
Head Coach: Malik
Jabir
Team Manager: Victor Sirebour
Masseur: Omono Asamoah
Club President: Ofori Nuako (Paa O)
Anthony Osei Kwadwo, Frank
Amankwah, Agyeman Duah, Frimpong Manso (Captain), Emmanuel
Ampiah "Chairman", Alex
Nyarko, George Arthur, Joseph Okyere, Mahmoud Ahmed, Raphael
Akakpo "Patron", Seidu Yusif
Head Coach: Malik
Jabir 2006
champions league plus former players mohammed ahlassan, aziz
ansah, godfred yeboah, mutala mohammed, sam addo,edmond owusu
ansah, yussif chipsah, george yamoah, nana ahine duah,kwame
obeng darko,ahmed toure, douglas nkrumah,michael osei,gabriel
issah ahmed, charles kwaku asampomg barnie bismark taylor,joseph
hendricks, george owu, louis quainoo, osei boateng, godwin
ablodey, hamza mohammed, baba adamu amando, prince adu
poku,kwadwo poku mahala, kwadwo poku jnr,william tierro,emmanuel
osei kuffour general,daniel yeboah argentina, shilla alhassan,
shilla illiasu,michael ofosu appiah cid,isaac boakye, nii
odartey lamptey,louis agyemang, saint eric nii baah, lawrence
adjei, nana frimpong, isaac vorsah, costance mantey, kwabena
dodje,isaac owusu ninja, mark fish (ghana),sammy kuffour,joe sam,
baffour gyan,coach e.k afranie
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