The 2002 football season may just turn out to be Asante Kotoko's most involving yet in the last five years. The Ghanaian soccer giants are competing in the African Cup Winners Cup, the domestic League, and the FA cup.

The three competitions demand an exhausting schedule of thirty games in the league, nine games in Africa and ten games in the FA Cup all before the end of December this year.

It may be early yet but Kotoko look favorites to progress farther in the Cup Winners Cup while they still remain the most logical contenders to dethrone Accra Hearts Of Oak as the champions of the premier league.

The Accra representative of Kotoko, Kwame Amoa Bosompem has however played down on the favorite tag over Kotoko saying all sixteen clubs in the Premier League vying for the championship have a chance in.

He however concedes that Kotoko may have an urge over the other clubs because a clear and consistent program of rebuilding the club's fortunes started by the Herbert Mensah administration three years ago has began yielding fruit and puts Kotoko in pole position to win the league this year.

The Porcupine warriors who have been rated by the Confederation of African Footballer as the third all-time best football team in Africa have sadly had no laughter where the domestic league is concerned since it turned professional in 1994.

This year Kotoko is intent on a run in for both the Domestic and continental titles, an ambition, which may ruin the cherry for one title or the other.

This is further buoyed by the fact that their archrivals Hearts Of Oak crashed out of the champions League and have vowed to concentrate all their efforts on the domestic league in a bid to win it for the sixth straight year. Amoa Bosompem told myjoyonline.com that Kotoko has sufficient arsenal to tackle both competitions and still make an impression.

"The fact that we are playing in Africa does not mean we will be tired on the domestic front. Hearts Of Oak won the champions League and the Ghana League and even the African Super Cup in 2000 and I don't see why we cannot do the same. What a team needs to achieve that feat is a good bench and a brilliant technical mind and we have it."