Kumasi Asante Kotoko will resume their Ghana Premier League (GPL) campaign after March 6, 2025, following the burial of their late supporter, Nana Yaw Frimpong, popularly known as Nana Pooley. At a press conference on Monday, February 24, 2025, the club’s Communications Director, Sarfo Duku, officially announced the decision, stating that the club would return to the pitch after Pooley’s funeral rites. In view of the foregoing, and with the mandate of the IMC, I would like to declare that, based on the happenings so far, Asante Kotoko Sporting Club shall be ready and willing to return to the pitch after the burial and final funeral rites of Nana Yaw Frimpong, alias Pooley.

We hope that our supporters and all of you out there will agree with us the club indefinitely suspended its activities on the pitch after Pooley’s passing in solidarity with his family. With this announcement, Kotoko is set to rejoin the league, marking its official return to competitive football. Asante Kotoko sat out the MTN FA Cup Round of 16 over the weekend, as their scheduled match against Sekondi Eleven Wise was postponed.