Winners for the 2020/2021 Ghana Premier League title will get $42,000 (Ghs 250,000) for their efforts, the Ghana Football Association has announced.
The amount is an increase from the $30,000 (Ghs 180,000) awarded for the last winners, Aduana Stars, in 2017.
The runners up will receive GHC 150,000, 40 silver medals plus groceries from Melcom Shopping Center and the third place will pocket GHC 80,000 plus 40 bronze medals.
The winners of the various Division One Leagues will also get GHC 50,000 in prize money.
The 2020/21 Ghana Premier League is set to kick off on 14 November with a top liner between Aduana Stars and Hearts of Oak at the Nana Agyeman Badu Park at Dormaa.
This season’s league will also receive a major boost in the area of TV coverage as official broadcast right holders StarTimes are set to invest $1 million in the coverage of games.
For the first time in the Premier League five games will be televised on every match week.