Full name | West African Football Academy Sporting Club |
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Nickname(s) | WAFA |
Founded | 2014 |
Ground | WAFA Stadium South Tongu District, Volta Region, Ghana |
Capacity | 1,000 |
Coordinates | 6°2′07″N 0°33′02″E / 6.03528°N 0.55056°E |
Chairman | Karel Brokken |
Website | https://www.facebook.com/WestAfricanFootballAcademySportingClub/ |
West African Football Academy Sporting Club or WAFA for short, is a Ghanaian professional football club based near Sogakope in the Volta Region. They are competing in the Ghana Premier League. The 2016–17 season was a successful one for WAFA as the side finished second in the Premier League,[1] beating Hearts of Oak 5–0 along the way.[2]
The club was founded in August 2014, as the Feyenoord Academy in Goma Fetteh, founded by Feyenoord from Rotterdam, and Red Bull Academy near Sogakope were merged.