Ghana’s Black Satellites will kick-start qualifiers for the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Thursday as they play Benin in the WAFU Zone B Championships.
The Championships in Togo will be the qualifying tournament for next year’s U-20 AFCON.
Ghana, paired in Group A, will take on Benin at Stade de Kégué at 7:00pm. It will be the second game of the qualifying tournament as Togo will engage Niger in the inaugural match.
The game for the Black Satellites comes a day after the nation marked 15 years since the world triumph at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt.
Led by Andre Dede Ayew, a 10-man Ghana U-20 team beat Brazil on penalties to annex Africa’s first and only World Cup trophy in that age category.
Coach Desmond Offei has served notice of qualifying for the main tournament next year as his foremost goal.
For him, Ghanaian football fans have been starved of youth soccer success for long.
“I think we are starving a bit in terms of success,” he said in an interview on pan-African channel Supersport on Wednesday, October 16.
“It hasn’t been easy with our U-17 team; our Black Princesses just came back from Colombia and couldn’t make it out of the group stage.”
The Black Satellites will later take on Niger and Togo in the group stage.
