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| Full name | Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Phobia | ||
| Founded | 11 November 1911 | ||
| Ground | Accra Sports Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 40,000 | ||
| Chairman | Togbe Afede XIV | ||
| Manager | Aboubakar Ouattara | ||
| League | Ghana Premier League | ||
| 2022–23 | 12th | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club, commonly referred to as Hearts of Oak or just Hearts, is a professional sports club based in Accra (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 the Ghana Premier League, the premier division on the Ghanaian football pyramid. The Accra Sports Stadium is the club's home grounds.
Hearts has won the Premier League twenty-one times, the Ghanaian FA Cup a record twelve times,[2] the Ghana Super Cup, a joint record three times[3][4] the President's Cup, six times,[5][6][7] and the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederations Cup once each.[8] Accra Hearts of Oak was also ranked eighth football club in the world in the year 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 a Continental 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 the Accra Football League and the Gold 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 Sir Gordon 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]
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- ^ "Hearts to play either Kotoko or AshGold in Super Cup clash". GhanaWeb. 9 August 2021. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "Ghana FA to confirm Hearts of Oak as Super Cup winners". GhanaSoccernet. 9 August 2021. Archived from the original on 20 February 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "Check out all the trophies won by Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko". GhanaWeb. 10 August 2021. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "Konadu Yiadom's header settles 2023 President's Cup between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko - MyJoyOnline.com". www.myjoyonline.com. 5 March 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Match Report: Hearts of Oak beat Akufo-Addo's Asante Kotoko to win President's Cup". GhanaWeb. 5 March 2023. Archived from the original on 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ Ayamga, Emmanuel (19 November 2019). "Hearts of Oak's treble winners of 2000: a team and manager that dominated African football". These Football Times. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "Today in history: Hearts win 2000 Champions League after chaotic final". Ghana Soccernet. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
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