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Full name | Football Club Samartex 1996 |
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Founded | 1995 |
Ground | Samartex Park, Tarkwa, Ghana |
Capacity | 7,000 [1] |
Website | Club website |
Football Club Samartex 1996, more commonly known as Samartex, is a Ghanaian professional football team based at Samartex Park in Tarkwa [2] [3] [4] that plays in the Ghana Premier League.
The club was founded in 1995 by the Samartex Timber & Plywood Company as a recreational football club, and gained promotion from the Third Division to the Second Division of the Western Region in their first season. [5] [6]
The club spent two decades at the lower divisions before getting promoted to the GPL in 2022–23. [7] [8] The following season, they surprisingly won the league title for the first time in the club's history. [9]