Ghana Premier League revenue insufficient for NSA operations, reveals spokesman Charles Amofa

National Sports Authority (NSA) spokesman Charles Amofa has disclosed that revenue generated from Ghana Premier League games is inadequate to effectively support the NSA's duties.

Amofa revealed that a single match can yield as little as 700 Ghana cedis, while maintenance costs for stadia, including electricity and water bills, can reach up to 80,000 cedis monthly.

Ghanaians have criticized the NSA for poor stadium maintenance, but Amofa emphasized the multifunctional nature of these facilities, catering to various sports.

He highlighted that the NSA cannot solely rely on football revenue, despite it being the biggest sport, as significant income from high-profile matches like those between Hearts and Kotoko is sporadic.

"Our facilities are multifunctional facilities that is we don't only use it for football there are other disciplines volleyball, handball, boxing, etc they all use the facility. Because of our mandate to develop sports in Ghana we can't pass cost of using the facility to the sportsmen," he told Peace FM as monitored by Footballghana.com

"We all know that football is the biggest in the sports with football we can play a match and at the end of the day we use tickets to generate revenue during matches at the end of the game the money NSA receives sometimes is 800 cedis, 700 cedis. Meanwhile, the resources that goes into Premier League match.

"When a windfall comes for example Hearts and Kotoko it comes once in a while but if you look at the facility we have Accra Sports Stadium, Baba Yara Stadium the cost of maintaining the facility a month's electricity bill sometimes it is 80,000 cedis, water bill, sanitation.

"After a game it sometimes take us 2 or 3 days to clean the whole place, sometimes when you go to the washroom bulbs have been removed, taps removed all of these are maintenance Sports Authority have to do,"