Basake Holy Stars FC: The Western Region Football Club and Its Story

Basake Holy Stars FC are a football club from Basake, in the Ellembelle District of Ghana's Western Region, and they play their home games at CAM Park in Nzema Aiyinasi. They won Division One League Zone Two in 2023/24 and, with it, earned the first promotion to the Ghana Premier League in the club's history, which made 2024/25 their debut season in the top flight. South African soccer followers can trace that journey from Basake's local roots to Ghana's national competition.

The table and fixtures modules help readers follow the competition, check venues and convert kick off times.

Who Are Basake Holy Stars FC?

Basake Holy Stars are based in Basake in the Ellembelle District of Ghana's Western Region. Their home venue is CAM Park at Nzema Aiyinasi.

How Did a Village Side Win Promotion to the Ghana Premier League?

The 2023/24 Division One League Zone Two title brought Holy Stars their first promotion to Ghana's top flight, with New Edubiase finishing as runners up. The title was marked at a coronation game in 2024, where Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku presented the Zone Two trophy. The club's debut Premier League season was 2024/25.

Where Do Holy Stars Play Their Home Games?

The club's home venue is CAM Park at Nzema Aiyinasi. Check the venue listed for each fixture before planning a journey.

How Do You Read the Holy Stars Table, Fixtures, Results and Squad?

Consult the Basake Holy Stars fixtures for fixture information. The table, or log, shows how clubs stand against the competition's title and relegation thresholds. Consult the results module for match outcomes. Use the squad module to check player nationalities.

Who Was Named Basake Holy Stars President in 2024?

Simon Ehomah was named as club president in 2024, the year supporters publicly praised his investment in the team during the promotion celebrations. The current coaching staff are listed in the squad module, since those roles can change between seasons and the module keeps them accurate.

Earlier Ghana Premier League title sponsors included Globacom from 2009 to 2013, First Capital Plus Bank, later Capital Bank, from 2013 to 2015, and betPawa from 2022 to 2023.

How Does Ghana's Division One Zone System Work?

Below the Premier League, Ghana runs Division One as a set of regional zones, and the winner of each zone is promoted to the top flight. Holy Stars came up as champions of Zone Two, which grouped them with clubs from their part of the country, so travel and rivalries stay largely regional until promotion. In the other direction, the bottom three Premier League clubs each season are relegated into these zones, and that is the trapdoor every promoted side spends its first years avoiding.

For readers elsewhere on the continent, the logic will feel familiar. Nigeria's NPFL, Kenya's FKF Premier League (still called the KPL by many fans), South Africa's Betway Premiership and the StarTimes Uganda Premier League all draw newly promoted sides from a second tier, although the regional zone format is more pronounced in Ghana. The Ghana Premier League itself dates from 1958, when it replaced the Gold Coast Club Competition, and it turned professional before the 1989/90 season. As such, Holy Stars joined a league with almost seven decades of history behind it.

How Do Holy Stars Compare With Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak?

Holy Stars bring Ellembelle's football story into encounters with two clubs whose traditions reach across Ghana: Kotoko and Hearts of Oak. Kumasi's Asante Kotoko date their foundation to 31 August 1935, while an earlier chapter began with Ashanti United in 1926. Kotoko lead Ghana's league title honours, followed by Hearts with 20 championships, giving Holy Stars two substantial reference points in the domestic game.

For Holy Stars, facing Kotoko also creates a connection to African club football history: the Kumasi side lifted the continent's Champions Clubs trophy in 1970 and again in 1983, before the competition became the CAF Champions League. Baba Yara Stadium opened in Kumasi in 1957; its 40,528 capacity places it above Ghana's other stadiums by size. Moving from CAM Park to that setting gives Holy Stars a different stage on which to represent Basake.

That is where the giant killer angle comes in. Holy Stars have already taken points from the big names since their promotion, and the full dated record sits on the club's head to head pages, filtered by competition. In my opinion, these fixtures are the best measure of the club's progress, because a promoted side that competes with Kotoko and Hearts usually has the organisation to stay clear of the bottom three as well. They are also the matches that bring Nigerian, Kenyan, South African and Ugandan readers to the club for the first time.

Who Follows Holy Stars, and How Can You Follow Them From Outside Ghana?

The core support is local and loyal, the people of Basake and the surrounding Ellembelle towns, and most Ghanaian fans follow the league on radio, on their phones and through short match videos on social platforms. Big crowds tend to gather when Kotoko or Hearts come to town, and away supporters of those two clubs often outnumber everyone else. With Ghana on GMT all year, a 15:00 GMT start for Holy Stars means Lagos supporters tune in at 16:00 WAT, Johannesburg follows at 17:00 SAST, and fans in Nairobi and Kampala join at 18:00 EAT. The fixtures module shows every kick off in all four zones, and the where to watch details for each country are listed there too.

What Decides a Holy Stars Season?

For a club like Holy Stars, survival is the first target every season, and the league's relegation rule makes the arithmetic simple: finish above the bottom three and you stay up. Home form at a small, familiar ground tends to carry promoted sides, while the long away trips to Kumasi, Accra and the north test the depth of the squad. What would lift the club further is the steady growth that promoted clubs in Ghana have shown before, keeping a settled core of players, adding two or three experienced Premier League heads and turning narrow defeats into draws.

There is a continental thread, too. The CHAN tournament is restricted to players based in their own country's domestic league, so a Holy Stars player who shines in the Premier League can push his way into Ghana's home based squad, and from there towards the Black Stars. That is the route that would put Basake on the African map. So, to follow it properly, open the fixtures module before each matchday, check the venue and kick off time in your zone, and read the foot of the table first.