Clubname: | Berry Ladies Football Club |
Fullname: | Berry Ladies Football Club |
Ground: | Madina Astroturf |
Coordinates: | 5.677230133971621, -0.1831426 |
Capacity: | 5000 |
Chairman: | Gifty Oware-Mensah |
Manager: | Paul Freeman Amponsah |
League: | Ghana Women’s Premier League |
Season: | 2022/2023 |
Position: | Ghana Women's Premier League 4 of 16 |
Website: | https://berryladiesfcgh.com/ |
Current: | 2023/2024 |
Owner: | Gifty Oware-Mensah |
Mgrtitle: | Head Coach |
Berry Ladies Football Club is a Ghanaian professional women's football club based in Accra in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.[1] The club features in the Southern Zone of the Ghana Women’s Premier League.[2] [3] The club was previously known as Halifax Ladies Football Club or as Halifax Soccer Academy Ladies until 2020.[4]
Berry Ladies (then Halifax Ladies Football Club or Halifax Soccer Academy Ladies) was based in Nungua in Greater Accra Region. In 2020, the club was taken over by a new management board led by Gifty Oware-Aboagye. The name of the club was then changed to Berry Ladies. The club was relocated from Nungua to Madina still within the Greater Accra Region.[5]
They won the Greater Accra Regional Football Association (GARFA) Women's Division One League Zone A to qualify for the Regional Women's Zonal playoff and champions of champions (championship final for the GARFA Women's League). They won the championship final and won the Regional Women's Zonal playoff for the Southern Zone to qualify for the Ghana Women's Premier League for the first time in the club's history.
Before the start of their first top-flight season, the club appointed Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo,[6] a Ghanaian football coach and former player who played as a defender for the Ghana women's national football team. In their debut season (2020–21 season) in the GWPL, they placed second in the Southern Zone behind Hasaacas Ladies. Their second-place finish earned them qualification into the Ghana Women's Super Cup. In the 2022/2023 season, they finished fourth in the Southern-Zone of the Ghana Women's Premier League under their new interim coach, Coach Paul Freeman Amponsah. Coach Paul Freeman Amponsah was then appointed as the new Head Coach of the Club ahead of the 2023 Ghana Women’s Super Cup League. Berry Ladies FC finished 3rd place in the 2023 Ghana Women’s Super Cup for the first time in the history of the club.[7] [8]
The club plays their home matches at the Madina AstroTurf.
1 | Grace Krofi Amoah | Goalkeeper | 6 | 0 | Ghana | |
16 | Gifty Amewoyi | 0 | 0 | Ghana | ||
Abigail Tawiah Mensah | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Portia Asantewaa | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Doris Addi | o | 0 | Ghana | |||
2 | Hannah Buabeng | Defender | 1 | 0 | Ghana | |
3 | Dorcas Quansah | 0 | 0 | Ghana | ||
4 | Cynthia Boakye-Yiadom | 2 | 0 | Ghana | ||
21 | Comfort Yeboah | 6 | 2 | Ghana | ||
23 | Victoria Amenyo | 2 | 0 | Ghana | ||
24 | Regina Donkor | 6 | 0 | Ghana | ||
25 | Deborah Annoh | 6 | 1 | Ghana | ||
Rahama Jafaru | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Ama Marina Boaduwaa | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Princess Boakye Ansah | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Linda Oforiwaa | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
5 | Doreen Graham | Midfielder | 6 | 1 | Ghana | |
6 | Comfort Cobinnah | 6 | 0 | Ghana | ||
12 | Fakiha Alhassan | 5 | 2 | Ghana | ||
13 | Sarah Buckman | 0 | 0 | Ghana | ||
14 | Ernestina Amoateng | 5 | 1 | Ghana | ||
17 | Janet Korkor Osei | 6 | 2 | Ghana | ||
27 | Afriyie Agyeiwaa Akosua | 0 | 0 | Ghana | ||
Nina Norshie | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Selina Anima | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Rashida Ibrahim | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Vivian Asare | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Precious Ohenewaa | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
7 | Jacqueline Amponsah Ampomaa | Forward | 2 | 0 | Ghana | |
8 | Elizabeth Adjoa Linking Boateng | 4 | 2 | Ghana | ||
9 | Victoria Salifu | 5 | 0 | Ghana | ||
10 | Christabel Boateng | 3 | 0 | Ghana | ||
11 | Felicity Antwi-Agyei | 3 | 0 | Ghana | ||
18 | Portia Sekyiwaa | 5 | 0 | Ghana | ||
29 | Dorcas Ntiriwa | 1 | 0 | Ghana | ||
Benedicta Swatson | ||||||
Elizabeth Ayeabea | 4 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Mabel Amoyaw | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Priscilla Sintim Agyemang | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Thelma Baffour Attuah | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Aisha Osman | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Emmanuela Adu Gyamfi | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Ginika Ikeh | 0 | 0 | Nigeria | |||
Diana Weige | Transferred | Ghana | ||||
Daniela Abass | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Lilian Serinye | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Bebe Kpozo | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Ernestina Tetteh | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Priscilla Lartey | 0 | 0 | Ghana | |||
Eugenia Korkor | 0 | 0 | Ghana |
Here are trophies won by Berry Ladies
2022/2023 | Ghana Women's Super Cup | 3rd Place[11] [12] | |
2019/2020 | Greater Accra Regional Football Association Women's Division One League | Winner | |
2019/2020 | Division One Regional Women's Zonal League | Winner |
Club Owner & CEO - Gifty Oware-Aboagye
General Manager - Victor Elias Seshie
Sporting Director - Kwasi Osei Danso Ofori-Atta[13]
Director - Paa Kwesi Todd[14]
Coaches - Reginald Asante, Paul Freeman Amponsah[15]
Head, Digital Marketing - Samuel Kwame Boadu[16]
Welfare Manager – Aicha Amoako Boukari Denteh
Kits & Equipment Manager – Gideon Sosu
Berry Ladies announced ahead of the 2023/2024 season its partnership with Berekum Chelsea Football Club to become their women's team for the sports outfit[17]