The deal, reached at a meeting in Morocco, will lift the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence to four artificial pitches, one of them floodlit for night training.
World football's governing body, FIFA, has agreed to build two new artificial turf pitches at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram, in the Greater Accra Region.
The agreement came out of a meeting in Rabat, Morocco, between Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku and FIFA's Development Committee, the body that handles infrastructure and development funding for member associations. Daily Guide Network reported the outcome of the meeting.
What is being built
One of the two pitches will come with a high-level floodlighting system, which means teams can train and play after dark. The second pitch will be built without floodlights.
When the work is done, Prampram will have four artificial turf pitches in total. Two natural grass pitches at the same site are already close to completion, according to the GFA.
FIFA handles the whole project
One detail worth noting is that FIFA will manage the project from start to finish. That covers the design, the tendering for contractors, the construction itself, and the final handover of the completed pitches to the GFA.
That arrangement is meant to keep the facilities at FIFA's own technical standards and to make sure they last. For Ghanaian football watchers who have seen projects stall or fall below standard after handover, direct oversight by the funder is the main assurance on offer here.
Why Prampram matters
The Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence is the GFA's technical base. It is where national teams camp, where youth squads are developed and where coaching courses are run. Adding pitches increases how many groups can use the centre at the same time, and the floodlit pitch in particular extends the usable hours of each day.
For a federation that runs multiple national teams across male, female and age-grade levels, pitch availability is a practical constraint. More surfaces mean fewer scheduling clashes and less wear on any single field.
For Ghanaians abroad
Many Ghanaians in the United States and elsewhere follow the Black Stars and the women's and youth sides closely, and some send players home or support academies. A better-equipped national technical centre is the kind of groundwork that shows up years later in the quality of players coming through.
What happens next
No construction start date, completion timeline or cost figure has been made public. The GFA has not announced when tendering will begin.
Until those details are released, the agreement remains a commitment rather than work on the ground. The real test will be how quickly design and tendering move, and whether the two natural grass pitches already under construction are finished on schedule.
