Live TV coverage of Ghana's World Cup qualifiers

All of Ghana's qualifying matches for the 2014 World Cup will be broadcast live on television after Caf, today signed A contract for the centralized TV and Marketing Rights for the African preliminaries.

Italian company B4 associated to the French entity Lagardère Sport and its subsidiary Sportfive holds the rights for all matches.

The African qualifiers will begin in November 2011 and end in November 2013 and will involve 52 countries.

The Black Stars in Group D, will host their opening game against either Lesotho or Burundi on June 1, 2012 before flying away to Zambia to clash with the Chipolopolo seven days later and wrap up the first round of the group fixtures against Sudan.

According to Caf, the Host Federation and the Host Broadcaster will be entitled to broadcast each Home Match live, free to air by terrestrial means only.

CAF President Issa Hayatou said the agreement will allow a substantial increase of revenues.

The CAF Executive Committee meeting on September 28th will also confirm the revenues system to be implemented for each member associations engaged on an approved mechanism considering sporting and economic criteria. The minimum guaranteed for the above-mentioned contract is of 23 million USD.