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New date announced for start of Ghana Premier League second round

By Vincent Ashitey
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The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced a new date for the Premier League second round to resume.

The country's football governing body had earlier announced that the second round of the Premier League would commence from Friday, March 19, 2021.

But, there has been a piece of new information with regards to the date as Premier League clubs are been told that, due to the upcoming AFCON 2021 qualifiers the second round has been rescheduled to Friday, April 2, 2021.

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According to the GFA, the decision is to give handlers of the Black Stars ample time to prepare for the two remaining Africa Cup of National qualifiers against South Africa and Sao Tome and Principe.

Below is the full statement from GFA

The start of the second round of the Ghana Premier League has been rescheduled from Friday, March 19, 2021 to Friday, April 2, 2021.

The decision is to give handlers of the Black Stars ample time to prepare for the two remaining Africa Cup of National qualifiers against South Africa and Sao Tome and Principe.

The Black Stars have been fine tuning in Accra for the two ties with a chunk of them being home based players.

The Ghana Premier League has been on break since Sunday. March 6, 2021.

Stakeholders are also to take note that the outstanding game between Asante Kotoko SC and Bechem United FC originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 24, 2021 will now be played on Wednesday, April 7, 2021.

Industry players are to take note of the changes.