Aduana Stars sets record

19 goals in 30 matches: this is the record that made Aduana Stars the lowest-scoring side in their debut season in the Ghanaian Premier League.

Amazingly, however, the Dormaa outfit have not ended the campaign in the relegation zone, but as champions! A final-day defeat for rivals AshantiGold enabled Aduana to lift the trophy with a trademark 1-0 win over Berekum Arsenal, capping a remarkable season in which only four of their 30 games witnessed more than one goal. Predictably, these unlikeliest of Ghanaian kings set a host of new records, becoming the first newly-promoted club to win their nation’s top club prize and only the second lowest-scoring side in world football to win their national championship.

The first, Sweden’s AIK, managed the same incredible feat in 1998. Yet not even AIK could compete with the new record set for the lowest number of goals-per-match by a domestic title-winner, with Aduana’s measly average of 0.633 beating the previous benchmark set when Ndiambour scored 20 goals in 30 matches (0.667 per match) en route to winning the Senegalese title in 1992.