Kits and crest The official jersey colours for the Black Stars are white for home games and yellow for away games. Adopted following the independence of Ghana in 1957, the black star has been included in the Black Stars' kits. The
Black Stars' kits were sponsored by
Puma SE from 2005, with the deal ending in 2014. Between 1990 and 2006 the Ghana national team used the kit in the colours of the national flag of Ghana, with gold, green and red used, as in the team's
crest and also known as the
Pan-African colours. The gold with green and red kit concept and design was used in the 60s and 70s, and designed with gold and green vertical stripes and red shoulders. An all black second kit was introduced in 2008 and in 2015, Black Stars' gold-red-green coloured kit and all black coloured kit is to be reassigned to the position of 1st and 2nd kits following the induction of a brown with blue and gold coloured Black Stars 3rd kit in 2012.
Grounds The training facilities and
training grounds are located at
Agyeman Badu Stadium,
Berekum Sports Stadium in Brong-Ahafo, the
Tema Sports Stadium in
Tema and the multi-functional Lizzy Sports Complex in
Legon.
Organization and finance The Black Stars had no official head because of "corrupt" practices by the then president,
Kwesi Nyantakyi and vice-president George Afriyie, with Frank Davis as
director of football, and Edward Bawa as treasurer. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) signed a
CN¥92.2 million (US$15 million) deal with Ghanaian state-run
oil and gas exploration corporation,
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), to
sponsor the Black Stars and the renewable contract saw the oil and gas exploration corporation become the global headline sponsor of the Black Stars, with a yearly Black Stars player salary wage bill, following the
gold mining corporations
Ashanti Goldfields Corporation and Goldfields Ghana Limited (GGL), which had been sponsoring the Black Stars since 2005. On 28 August 2013, Ghana Football Association (GFA) launched a
TV channel and named
GFA TV. The channel has the
exclusive rights to broadcast all the Black Stars' matches. In November 2013, the Black Stars signed a 2013–2015 CN¥30.6 million (US$5 million) and an additional
classified multi-million
private bank sponsorship deal with the Ghanaian state-run
private banking institution
UniBank.
Supporters The Black Stars maintain an average stadium match attendance of over 60,000, with 84,017 watching the
2010 FIFA World Cup quarter-final against
Uruguay. Ghana's match against
England on 29 March 2011 had the largest away following for any association football national team since the re-opening of
Wembley Stadium in 2007.
Rivalries in the
2008 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final Ghana is rivals with
Nigeria. The "Battle of Supremacy on the
Gulf of Guinea" is between two of the "most successful teams on the African continent". The proximity of the two countries to each other, a dispute between the different association football competitions and
wider diplomatic competition for influence across West Africa add to this rivalry. The match between these two countries is called the
Jollof derby.
Media and arts Match schedules are broadcast in English as in the case of inter-continental matches and in
Akan nationally by Adom TV, PeaceFM, AdomFM and HappyFM. During the
scheduled qualification for the
2014 World Cup national broadcaster
GTV, a sub-division of the
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), broadcast to the Ghanaian public home qualifiers with away qualifiers broadcast by the satellite television broadcasting corporation
Viasat 1. The friendly match against
Turkey in August 2013 was televised by Viasat 1 and the qualifiers for the
2015 Africa Cup of Nations and the
2018 Inter-Continental Championships are scheduled for public broadcast by the corporations
GFA TV,
GBC and
Viasat 1. Products including books, documentary films,
Azonto dances and songs have been made in the name of the team. These may be intended with commercial motives and are focused on previous and future
World Cups or
Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. • Books: books have been published on the team's history and participation in tournaments. These include
Ghana, The Rediscovered Soccer Might: Watch Out World!, about the history and performance of the Black Stars and association football
national teams that the Black Stars have played against, and
The Black Stars of Ghana by Alan Whelan; about Black Stars commencing their progress through the final rounds of the 2010 World Cup and into the quarter-finals. • Documentary films: In 2010 Miracle Films Ghana Limited showcased a vintage documentary film picture, ''Kwame Nkrumah & Ghana's Black Stars'', about Osagyefo
Kwame Nkrumah "Africa's man of the 2nd millennium" and "
Pan-African pioneer", who invested energy into making Ghana's association football national team – the Black Stars – a force in African soccer. • Nickname: The
Black Star Line, a
shipping industry line
incorporated by the founder of the
Back-to-Africa movement,
civil rights movement leader
Marcus Garvey and the organiser of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) from 1919 to 1922, gives the Ghana team its nicknames, the Black Stars of West Africa and the Black Stars of Africa. Black Stars
goal celebrations in match victories at the 2014 World Cup and upon scoring against opposition teams, are to establish and showcase
Alkayida. • Songs: On occasions of past
World Cups or
African Championships, a number of musicians with music producers created
hiplife football songs which were composed in the
Akan language – the 2006 World Cup song, "", (Black Stars, We are moving forward)
musical composed by the
Musicians Union of Ghana, is to motivate the Black Stars to perform creditably in its quest for the capturing of the World Cup trophy. Black Stars'
captain and top-goalscorer
Asamoah Gyan recorded and released a
Hiplife song with '
Castro The Destroyer', where he features under the alias 'Baby Jet'. The song is entitled "African Girls" and is sung in the Akan language and was launched onto the Ghanaian screens, continental West Africa screens and onto the
Sub-Saharan Africa screens. The music video shows the "Asamoah Gyan Dance"
goal celebration which he demonstrated at the 2010 World Cup. The song "African Girls" won an award at the Ghana Music Awards in 2011. The 2010 World Cup song, "Ghana Black Stars (Official Song 2010 World Cup)" composed by Ghanaian hiplife music group "Kings and Queens Entertainment" approved by the
Ghana Football Association (GFA) as GFA has indicated that the Black Stars are a protected brand. ==Results and fixtures==