Hearts Ladies Boss questions loyalty of GPL Clubs Supporters

Vincentia Deku, the President of Hearts of Oak Ladies, the Phobian club’s Female Supporters Wing, has questioned the loyalty of football fans, who fail to contribute financially to their favored Ghana Premier League clubs by patronizing games at the stadia.

Asides the Super Clash between Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak, which recently attracted an attendance of 15,965 fans in a match-day 24 fixture in Kumasi, most GPL games, involving clubs with a relatively lower fan base, have struggled with patronage at game centres.

The low attendance recorded at GPL games has been blamed on a myriad of issues ranging from perceived poor security of league venues to the influx of foreign football leagues on local TV and Radio shows.

Attendance metrics show the GPL match-day 26 fixture between Asante Kotoko and Legon Cities in Kumasi drew in just 2069 spectators, while only 954 fans were at the Accra Sports Stadium to watch Hearts of Oak play Elmina Sharks in the match-day 25.

“You can’t be supporting a club and not come to the stadium, how do you expect the club to get money to run the affairs of the team,” Vincentia Deku opined on the Saving the Passion Show on GTV Sports Plus.

Asides sales from match tickets, local football clubs are expected to explore other avenues of revenue generation including player transfers, sponsorship, league broadcast rights and merchandising, which involves the sale of replica kits and paraphernalia.