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)