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2015 Ghanaian Premier League

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Season
  
2015

Champions League
  
Ashanti Gold

Top goalscorer
  
Kofi Owusu (19)

Champion
  
Ashanti Gold S.C.

Matches played
  
240

Champions
  
Ashanti Gold

Confederation Cup
  
Medeama

Start date
  
2015

Goals scored
  
507

2015 Ghanaian Premier League

Biggest home win
  
4 matches Asante Kotoko 4-0 Heart of Lions (29 April 2015) Hearts of Oak 4-0 Heart of Lions (22 July 2015) Heart of Lions 4-0 Brong Ahafo Stars (5 August 2015) Asante Kotoko 4-0 Aduana Stars (13 September 2015)

Relegated
  
BA Stars F.C., Accra Great Olympics F.C., Heart of Lions F.C.

Similar
  
2015 Girabola, 2014–15 South African Pr, 2015 Úrvalsdeild

The 2015 Ghanaian Premier League (known as the First Capital Plus Bank Premier League for sponsorship reasons) season will be the 56th season of top-tier football in Ghana. The competition was scheduled to begin in late September 2014 or early October 2014, although it did not start until January 2015.

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Ashanti Gold broke up Asante Kotoko's run of dominance with their first league title (They had previously won three under the name Goldfields). Asante Kotoko entered the league having won the last three titles and 24 total dating back to 1959. There was little drama concerning the championship as Ashanti Gold held first place for 29 of the 30 rounds this season, only briefly falling to second in Round 4, and clinching the title with a week to go.

There was considerable drama in the race to avoid relegation as eight teams were still in danger of falling into the bottom three on the final day of the season (Brong Ahafo Stars had sealed their fate several weeks earlier). Great Olympics got the win they needed, 2-1 over Ashanti Gold, but didn't get the help they needed to climb out of the bottom three as five other teams ahead of them won or drew. Heart of Lions was the other club to be relegated, falling from ninth to 14th with the season-ending 4-2 loss at New Edubiase. Brong Ahafo Stars, Great Olympics and Heart of Lions will all play in Division One for the 2015-16 season.

2015 First Capital Plus Bank Premier League season

Participating Clubs (2015)

Team Movements

Teams promoted following 2013–2014 Glo Premier League season

  • Brong Ahafo Stars, (Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo)
  • Accra Great Olympics F.C., (Accra, Greater Accra)
  • West African Football Academy, (Gomoa Fetteh, Central)
  • Runner-up of the 2015 Ghanaian FA Cup qualifies for the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup.
  • Winner of runner-up of the 2014–15 Ghanaian FA Cup qualifies for the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup.
  • First Capital Plus Bank Premier League: Standings

    Updated to games played on 13 September 2015.
    Source: First Capital Plus Bank Premier League and FIFA.com
    Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals; 6) playoff
    (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
    Only applicable when the season is not finished:
    (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

    Positions by round

    Last updated: 13 September 2015
    Source: Soccerway (French)

    Top scorers

    Updated to games played on 13 September 2015
    Source: soccerway.com

    References

    2015 Ghanaian Premier League Wikipedia