Liberty Professionals F.C.

Liberty Professionals Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Dansoman, Accra.

Liberty Professionals FC

Full name	Liberty Professional Football Club
Founded	1996
Ground	Dansoman Park Dansoman, Accra, Ghana
Capacity	2,000
League	Ghana Premier League
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

Liberty Professionals was founded in 1996 by Accra-based businessmen Felix Ansong and Alhaji Sly Tetteh. The club was one of the earliest in Ghana to adopt a professional approach to the management of a football club. The club started their first season in the Poly Tank Division One League,but were promoted to the Ghana Telecom Premier League within their second season in 1998. Since then, the club has consistently maintained respectable league match performances. As of 2020, the team had an estimated net worth of $4.31million.^[1]

In July 2021, the club was relegated to the Ghana Division One League at the end of the 2020–21 season, after 22 years in the Ghana Premier League since gaining promotion in 1998.^[2][3]

Performance in CAF competitions

• West African Club Championship (UFOA Cup): 1 appearance

2009 – Third

Liberty Professionals FC old logo.

Stadium

Their home stadium is Carl Reindorf Park which can seat up to 2,000 people.^[4][5][6] In April 2021, during the latter part of the 2020–21 season they switched to WAFA (West African Football Academy) Stadium in Sogakope.^[7]

Current squad

As of 1 January 2021^[8][9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GHA Daniel Amissah 2 DF  GHA Michael Nii Laryea 3 FW  GHA Owusu Adam Mohammed 4 DF  GHA Godfred Atuahene 5 MF  GHA George Amoako 7 MF  GHA Emmauel Issaka 8 MF  GHA Issah Mubashar 9 FW  GHA Maxwell Kavar 10 MF  GHA Degraft Amponsah 11 FW  GHA Kwaku Karikari 12 DF  GHA Samuel Amofa 13 DF  GHA Maxwell Ansah 14 MF  GHA Simon Appiah Asamoah 15 DF  GHA Ernest Danso 16 GK  GHA Ganiwu Shaibu 17 FW  GHA George William Ansong

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  GHA Fuseini Mohammed 19 DF  GHA Ahmed Satar 20 DF  GHA Emmanuel Kumi 21 DF  GHA Paul Kwame 22 GK  GHA Kofi Baah 23 DF  GHA Benash Quansah 24 MF  GHA Abraham Wayo 25 MF  GHA Abdul Razak Boame 26 FW  GHA Daniel Antwi 27 MF  GHA Stanley Nii Agyei 28 MF  GHA Francis Tanko 29 FW  GHA Seedorf Asante 30 FW  GHA Emmanuel Paga 31 MF  GHA Brite Andoh 33 DF  GHA Evans Owusu

Notable players

Further information: Category:Liberty Professionals F.C. players

Academy

Liberty Professionals have three youth academies in Kenya, Togo and Ghana. Michael Essien played for the Ghana Academy for the 1998–99 season. Mubarak Alhassan, an academy graduate joined Granada CF in 2020.^[10] Abraham Wayo an academy graduate ended the 2020–21 season as the club's top goal scorer and later secured a deal to Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Étoile Sportive du Sahel.^[11]

Managers

• Sellas Tetteh (1996–2001)
• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio (2002)
• Sellas Tetteh (2009–2010)
• Joseph Emmanuel Sarpong (Jan 1, 2011 – July 8, 2012)
• George Lamptey (July 1, 2012–Oct 1, 2016)
• Michael Osei (May 2017 –February 2018)
• David Ocloo (December 2019 –April 2021)
• Andy Sinason & Sellas Tetteh (interim) (April 2021 –)