Cornerstone F.C. Explained

Clubname:Cornerstone Football Club
Fullname:Kumasi Cornerstone Football Club
Nickname:Corners 'Obeye yie'
Founded:1931[1]
Ground:Baba Yara Sports Stadium, Kumasi
Capacity:40,000
Chairman: Nana Addo Boaman
Manager: vacant
League:Division Two League
Season:2021-22

Kumasi Cornerstone is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Kumasi, Ashanti.[2] They are currently competing in the Ghana Division Two League.[3]

Kumasi Cornerstone is the oldest existing club in Ashanti Kingdom. It was founded in 1931. The club went to relegation after 1994-95 Ghana Premier League season and has since not qualified to the Premier League again. Both Tony Yeboah and Mohammed Tijani won the Ghana Premier League top scorer awards when playing for Cornerstone F.C

The club has been given to Nana Addo Boaman, a chief of Atonsu Nahinso in Kumasi Metropolitan for 5 years (2023–2028)

Notable former players

Joe De Graft (GK)

Joe Aikins

Ben Acheampong Simmons

Stephen Frimpong Manso

Emmanuel Ampeah

Abdul Razak 'Golden Boy'

Sampson Appiah

Dominic Adiyya

Kofi Nti Boakye

Isaac Boakye

Ernest Appau

Tony Yeboah

Mohammed Tijani

Nicholas Opoku

etc.

source: Bright Yeboah Taylor (Ghanaian Football Historian)

Honours

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=52240 History of Ghana Football
  2. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/ghahist.html Ghana – List of Final Tables
  3. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/gha2010.html Ghana 2009/10 – RSSSF.com
  4. https://www.rsssf.org/tablesg/ghacuphist.html Ghana – List of Cup Winners