Dreams F.C.


Dreams Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club founded in 2009 and based in Dawu in the country's Eastern Region that competes in the Ghana Premier League. On 18 June 2023, they won the FA Cup to gain entry into the CAF Confederation Cup for the first time in their history.

History

Dreams Football Club was founded in 2009 in Kweiman by the current president of the Ghana Football Association, Kurt Okraku, and changed base locations twice; Madina and currently at Dawu.
On 6 January 2017, former Bechem United coach Manuel Zacharias was appointed technical director of the club.
Abdul-Karim Zito served as the club's manager for 4 seasons – two each across two stints from 2018 to 2020 and from 2023 to 2025. He currently coaches rival league club Asante Kotoko and previously the Ghana U-20 team, the latter with which he won the 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.
Having been below the Ghanaian top-flight since formation, including two seasons in the Division One League, Dreams FC were promoted to the Ghana Premier League for the first time in their history for the 2016 season. However, the Ghana Football Association demoted the club back to Division One in late 2016 after its the Disciplinary Committee found an anomaly with the registration of a player. On 18 June 2023, they beat King Faisal and won the MTN FA Cup to gain entry into the CAF Confederation Cup for the first time in their history.

Debut continental campaign

Having gained entry to the CAF Confederation Cup with their FA Cup win, executives within the club expressed worries and personal frustrations about financial constraints heading into and throughout their inaugural African campaign. Nevertheless, Dreams F.C. were drawn against Guinean club Milo FC in the first preliminary round and the winners of AS Douanes of Niger and Kallon FC of Sierra Leone in the second preliminary round for a place in the group stages on 25 July 2023. Dreams beat Milo FC 3–2 on aggregate. They secured a 3–2 win on aggregate against Kallon, whose first qualifying round opponents AS Douanes withdrew due to the Niger conflict, 2–1 at home and a 1–1 draw away at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex stadium in Paynesville, Liberia to confirm their place in the group stages.
In the knockout stages, Dreams FC were drawn with Malian side Stade Malien and the winner of Egyptian teams Zamalek SC and Modern Future FC for a place in the final. The defeated Stade Malien 3–2 on aggregate to secure their semi-final spot and receive $750,000. Their journey would however come to an end with Zamalek eliminating them and Modern Future on aggregate; in the case of Dreams a 3–0 away win in Kumasi despite Dreams holding them to a goaless first-leg draw in the first-leg. Overall, their cash flow from their participation amounted to $1.2 million and their participant points acumulation coupled with Medeama SC's qualification for the group stage of the CAF Champions League raised Ghana's CAF club ranking from 27th to 14th, just 2 places shy of 12th, where the country could have entered two teams in those CAF club competitions. Their run as defending champions in the FA Cup was brought to an end by Bofoakwa Tano as they defeated them 2–1 at the semi-finals.

Kit sponsor

On 7 October 2016, Dreams FC signed a 3-year kit sponsored deal with Nike ahead of the 2016 Ghanaian Premier League season. Since the 2020–21 season, the team is sported with jerseys and kits manufactured by Mayniak Sports Wear.

Roster

First team

Coaching staff

Managerial history

Management

Youth team players

The youth team section of Dreams F.C. has produced players such as: