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Bofoakwa Tano F.C.

local football club on Ghana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ4937288 ↗
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Bofoakwa Tano is a Ghanaian association football club based in Sunyani in the Bono Region. The club is a member of the Ghana Premier League and play at Coronation Park.

History

Bofoakwa were first promoted to the top division in 1967. Despite finishing second-bottom in their first season, and bottom in their second season, they avoided relegation due to league restructuring, and in 1970 they managed a 6th-place finish. The 1972 season saw the club finish as runners-up to Asante Kotoko, and third place was achieved in 1974 and 1975, the club also winning the SWAG Cup in the latter season.

The club returned to the second tier after finishing bottom in 1979. They were promoted back to the top flight in 1982, but were relegated again in 1985.

The club reappeared in the top division in 1989–90, by which time the league had switched to winter. They were relegated again in 1990–91, promoted back in 1994–95, relegated in 1996–97, promoted in 1997–98. In 1999 they finished third from bottom, but avoided another relegation by winning a play-off.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bofoakwa Tano F.C.” is local football club on Ghana. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bofoakwa, Tano and local, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1970, 1972, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bofoakwa, Tano and local is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bofoakwa Tano F.C.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.