Ghanaian national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Black Stars |
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| Association | Ghana Football Association (GFA) |
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFU (West Africa) |
| Head coach | James Kwesi Appiah |
| Captain | Asamoah Gyan |
| Most caps | Asamoah Gyan (102) |
| Top scorer | Asamoah Gyan (49) |
| FIFA code | GHA |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 45  (4 May 2017)
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| Highest | 14 (February 2008, April–May 2008) |
| Lowest | 89 (June 2004) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 65 (30 April 2017)
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| Highest | 13 (30 June 1966) |
| Lowest | 97 (14 June 2004) |
| First international | |
 Gold Coast and  British Togoland 1–0 Nigeria  (Accra, British Gold Coast; 28 May 1950) |
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| Biggest win | |
Unofficial: Nyasaland 0–12 Ghana  (Nyasaland; 12 October 1962) Official:  Kenya 2–13 Ghana (Nairobi, Kenya; 12 December 1965) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Bulgaria 10–0 Ghana  (Leon, Mexico; 14 October 1968) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2006) |
| Best result | Quarter-finals, 2010 |
| Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Appearances | 21 (first in 1963) |
| Best result | Champions, 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982 |
| African Nations Championship | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2009) |
| Best result | Second place, 2009, 2014 |
The Ghana national football team represents Ghana in international association football and has done so since the 1950s. The team is nicknamed the Black Stars after the Black Star of Africa in the Flag of Ghana. It is administered by the Ghana Football Association, the governing body for football in Ghana and the oldest football association in Africa (founded in 1920). Prior to 1957, the team played as the Gold Coast.
Although the team did not qualify for the senior FIFA World Cup until 2006 where they qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, they had qualified for five straight Olympic Games Football Tournaments when the tournament was still a full senior national team competition. The team has won the Africa Cup of Nations four times (in 1963, 1965, 1978, and 1982) and has been runner-up 5 times (in 1968, 1970, 1992, 2010, and 2015). After going through 2005 unbeaten, the Ghana national football team won the FIFA Best Mover of the Year Award and reached the second round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, they became only the third African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals, and in 2014 they competed in their third consecutive World Cup.
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