The Cape Coast stadium will host of Ghana’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers which kick off next month.
The Confederations of African Football [CAF] gave the green light for the facility to replace the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, which was rejected by the continent’s football governing body.
Meeting a Caf deadline of April 25 to provide its home venue for the May 30-June 14 leg of games, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) submitted the 15,000-capacity Cape Coast facility having had the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi declared unfit to host high-level international games in the category of the AFCON.
The Black Stars placed in Group E to battle for one of two available tickets with Madagascar, Angola and Central African Republic (CAR).
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Ghana’s first game of the qualifiers will be at home to Madagascar on Wednesday June 1, 2022, with kick off confirmed for 19:00GMT.
The second Group E qualifier follows on Sunday, June 5 – an away trip to the Central African Republic (CAR).
Later in September, the Black Stars will engage in back-to-back games with Angola to mark days 3 and 4 of the qualifiers.
Ghana will be hoping to book a place in the competition next year.