Ghana’s Golden Shuttlers head into the 2026 BWF World Junior Championships in Cairo with continental momentum after claiming four medals at the All-Africa U-19 Championships, including silver in the women’s doubles and three bronze medals.

The haul underlined the growing competitiveness of Ghana’s junior badminton programme and gives the seven-member team, a timely confidence boost as they step up from African competition to face some of the world’s strongest emerging players.

Tamale will become the latest frontier in Ghana boxing’s push beyond Accra when SP Sport Promotions stages its inaugural Northern Rumble at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium on December 5, opening a pathway for northern fighters while testing the commercial potential of professional boxing outside its traditional strongholds.

Scheduled for the weekend of Farmers Day, the event represents the next phase of SP Sport’s nationwide expansion strategy, with promoter Samuel Agyei Darkwah targeting regular fight nights in Tamale and other regional capitals rather than isolated promotional shows.

Ghana are hunting for another Black Stars coach after yet another failed reset — the sixth different manager to handle the national team in seven years — and former international Nii Odartey Lamptey says the next appointment must finally confront the deeper problems dragging the country’s football backwards.

The search has assumed greater urgency following the October 1 departure of Carlos Queiroz, barely a month after the Portuguese was handed a fresh mandate following Ghana’s 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign.

Defending champions Medeama SC and FC Samartex 1996 tightened their grip on the early Ghana Premier League title race with narrow victories on match day five, while newcomers Port City FC continued their remarkable rise and Hearts of Oak’s promising start suffered another jolt.

Medeama and 2024 champions FC Samartex remain unbeaten and level on 11 points at the summit after grinding out identical 1-0 wins, but Port City are applying immediate pressure just a point behind following an emphatic 3-1 defeat of Bechem United.

Ghana defender Mohammed Salisu has taken another significant step in his recovery from a serious knee injury after featuring for 75 minutes in AS Monaco's 2-0 friendly victory over Italian side Pisa last  Saturday.

The 27-year-old centre-back was handed a starting role as Monaco used the friendly to give several players valuable playing time during the international break, with Salisu showing encouraging signs of a return to full fitness.

Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury plans to ask US President Donald Trump to lead his ringwalk before fighting Anthony Joshua.

Fury and Joshua are set to meet in an long-awaiting all-British bout at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on December 11.

Trump and Fury met at UFC Freedom 250 at the White House in June.

Former Ghana international Laryea Kingston has expressed his willingness to take charge of the senior national team if the Ghana Football Association (GFA) comes calling, saying there would be no greater joy than serving his country.

Beyond his popularity as a former Black Stars midfielder, Kingston has spent the years alter his playing career building a coaching profile that now stretches across Ghana, Europe, the United States and Uganda.

Al Shabab have granted Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey special leave to travel to his home country following the death of his father.

The Saudi Pro League club expressed its deepest condolences and sincere sympathies to Partey and his family during this difficult time in an official statement published on the club’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, wishing them strength and patience.

Football fans in Keta have backed reports that former Black Stars captain André Dede Ayew is considering contesting the next Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential election, to help reset the country’s football.

The reports suggested that Ayew, a former captain of the Black Stars, may enter the race to lead Ghana football after his playing career.

Fans in the municipality see the former skipper’s experience on the pitch as an asset that could help the GFA tackle the numerous challenges facing the national teams.

Medeama SC coach, Tanko Ibrahim, has praised his team for exhibiting high sense of character during their 1-0 win over Debibi United yesterday.

He stated that despite the number of injuries that has rocked the team they managed to secure the maximum points at a difficult terrain like Debibi.

Ten years ago, a dream was born on a simple wood-and-metal table. It was a vision to harness raw Ghanaian strength, courage, and determination, give it a structured home, and push it onto the world stage. In 2016, Armwrestling formally entered the national sports calendar when the Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF) earned official recognition as the country’s 40th national sporting federation. Securing instant affiliations with the Africa Armwrestling Federation (AFA) and the World Armwrestling Federation (WAF), the foundation was laid for what would become one of the nation’s most dramatic sports success stories.

The five-member committee tasked by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the Ministry of Sports and Recreation with finding a new coach for the Black Stars is set to commence work this week, amid despite growing speculation about possible candidates for the vacant position.

The committee was constituted last Saturday following the departure of Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz.

Ghana boxing has lost one of its most influential patrons and administrators, following the death of “Ambassador” Ray Quarcoo, the 90-year-old philanthropist whose decades of investment in fighters, coaches and administrators helped shape careers from Bukom to the Olympic and world championship stages.

Quarcoo died last Friday, October 2, triggering an outpouring of tributes from some of the biggest names in Ghanaian boxing for a man remembered not merely as a federation president, but as a benefactor who repeatedly used his resources and influence to create opportunities for the sport.

A five-member committee has been tasked to find a new head coach for the senior national football team, the Black Stars.

The committee has up to Friday, October 9, 2026, to submit its recommendations to the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

The sacking of another Black Stars coach will not rescue Ghana football.

After six coaches in seven years, collapsing national teams, fading clubs and a domestic league struggling for relevance, the evidence now points beyond the dugout to a deeper crisis of governance, accountability and football development that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) can no longer explain away. Ghana football’s crisis has moved beyond the dugout. 

The 4-2 collapse against The Gambia, Carlos Queiroz’s exit and the fury that followed have forced the GFA and the government towards a more fundamental question: who is accountable for the decline, and what reforms are needed to restore integrity, competitiveness and public trust?