Faustina Ampah

Faustina Ampah
Personal information
Full name	Faustina Ampah
Date of birth	November 30, 1996 (age 27)
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	FC Minsk
Number	15
Senior career*
Years	Team
2009–2017	Blessed Ladies FC
2016	→ Lokomotiva Brno H. H. (Loan)
2017–2018	FC Minsk
International career
2012–2016	Ghana U20
2017	Ghana
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Faustina Ampah (born November 30, 1996) is a Ghanaian defender currently playing for Belarus side, FC Minsk. Ampah is one of the two Ghanaians to have played in the round of 32 of UEFA Women's Champions League as at October 2017.

Club career

Ampah began her professional football career in Ghana, with Blessed Ladies and ended the 7 -year stay with the Kasoa based side by joining Czech Republic's Lokomotiva Brno Horní Heršpice on loan. Faustina Ampah was part of the FC Minsk team in the 2017-18 UEFA Women's Champions League, exiting the competition at the round of 32, losing to Slavia Prague and becoming the first Ghanaian to play in the round of 32 of the UEFA Women's Champions League.

International career

Faustina Ampah had her FIFA World Cup debut at the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup hosted by Japan in 2012. Her debut game was against United States that ended 4:0 in favor of United States.^[1] Faustina Ampah was also part of the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup making her the only Ghanaian to represent the nation at three FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Ampah's first competitive tournament for the Ghana women's national football team was the 2018 WAFU Women's Cup. She played in all five games of the tournament helping the Black Queens to the first place title. She scored a semifinal equalizer against Nigeria women's national football team.^[2] She won the player of the match in that game.

Honours

Club

FC Minsk

Belarusian Women's Super Cup 2017 Runner Up
Belarusian Premier League (women) 2017 Winners
Belarusian Women's Cup 2017 Winners
Belarusian Premier League (women) Super Cup 2018 - Winners

National Team

Ghana Women's National Football Team

2018 WAFU Women's Cup Champions

References

^ Fifa. "Faustina AMPAH". Fifa. Fifa. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
^ Duah, George (February 25, 2018). "Ghana emerge as winners of WAFU B with a 1:0 win against Ivory Coast". ocsportsnews.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2024.

Faustina Ampah and Ernestina Abambila – Ghanaians in UWCL R32 173^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Faustina Ampah – FIFA competition record (archived)
Faustina Ampah at Soccerway
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[1] Fifa. "Faustina AMPAH". Fifa. Fifa. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2017.

[2] Duah, George (February 25, 2018). "Ghana emerge as winners of WAFU B with a 1:0 win against Ivory Coast". ocsportsnews.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2024.

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