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| Full name | Asante Kotoko Sporting Club (Ashanti Twi: Kum Apem a, Apem Beba; English: Kill a thousand, and a thousand more will come) |
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| Nickname(s) | Porcupines Porcupine Warriors The Great Porcupines of Africa Fantabulous/FABULOUS |
| Founded | 31 August 1935 |
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Kumasi Sports Stadium Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana |
| Capacity | 40,528 |
| Owner | Nana Osei Tutu II |
| Chairman | Dr Kwame kyei |
| Manager | Steven Polack |
| League | Ghana Premier League |
| 2016 | 5th |
| Website | Club home page |
Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, also known as Asante Kotoko or Ashanti Kotoko, is a professional football club from Kumasi, Ashanti. Based at Kumasi Sports Stadium they are competing in the Ghanian Premier League. They have been champions of the Ghana Premier League a record 24 times, and have won the CAF Champions League twice.
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics ranked Asante Kotoko the African club of the 20th century.
The foundation of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club was laid by 13 young Ashanti men led by a young driver, Mr. Kwasi Kumah, ably supported by L.Y.Asamoah an electrician. Mr. Kwasi Kumah, a native of Nyankyerenease near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, was a chauffeur to an English man and military officer, a Colonel Ross. Kwasi Kumah nurtured the idea of forming a football team when he watched an exciting football match. When Colonel Ross returned home for good, Kumah bought a set of jerseys to start his football team. With co-operation from his good friend, L.Y.Asamoah, he formed the Ashanti United Football Club in 1926. Five years later the team was renamed Kumasi Titanics. The team was really handicapped because most of the players worked in government organizations like the Prisons and Railways and had been transferred from Kumasi. "Kumasi Titanics" did not find enough luck in their new name and in 1934 they adopted a more powerful name, Mighty Atoms. Still the club did not see much progress and in 1935, Mr J.S.K. Frimpong, popularly called Teacher Frimpong, then a teacher of the Kumasi Government School who had all the time shown interest in the club, organized some men from his school and proposed a change of name from "Kumasi Titanics" to Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club. Permission had to be obtained from the Asantehene (King of the Kingdom of Ashanti) because the name "Kotoko", meaning "Porcupine" is the official symbol of the Ashanti nation. The Asantehene, Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, became the first life patron of the club. Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club was subsequently formally founded in 1935.
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