2026 WC Qualifiers: Accra Sports Stadium To Host Ghana Versus Chad

The Accra Sports Stadium will host Ghana’s 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Chad.

The fixture, a matchday five encounter, is scheduled for March 17, 2025.

Sources have told JoySports that the Ghana Football Association decided against submitting another facility to be considered by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for inspection.

The stadium last hosted Ghana’s 2-1 loss to Niger in a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier, in November last year.

Since then, the Accra Sports Stadium has been closed down, as the National Sports Authority engaged Green Grass Technology to begin pitch maintenance.

Three months later, the pitch is in an improved condition.

 

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Although CAF inspectors have not physically been to Accra, they have shared correspondence with the Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Sports and Recreation.

After years of playing second fiddle to the Baba Yara Sports Stadium as the Black Stars preferred home venue, the Accra Sports Stadium is back as the nation’s home venue after CAF rejected the stadium in Kumasi.

In September 2024, CAF withdrew it’s approval of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium due to “technical infractions including an unsuitable playing field”.CAF said it arrived at the decision after several warnings for non-compliance.

When CAF announced the decision, the National Sports Authority (NSA) re-engaged Green Grass Technology to maintain the Accra Sports Stadium.

Within a month, the company was able to restore the deteriorated pitch, while the NSA fixed the other facilties before it was subsequently approved for Ghana’s penultimate home game against Sudan.

Before CAF withdrew it’s approval for the Stadium in Kumasi, the continents governing body had already announced a similar decision on the Cape Coast Stadium, in March 2022.

That leaves Accra Sports Stadium, the only approved venue for CAF and FIFA Category A Matches, as the venue for next month’s fixture.

 

 

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