Gyamfi’s Perfect Treble Lights Up Len Clay as AshantiGold Claim First League win
On a warm Saturday afternoon in Obuasi, Len Clay Stadium felt like it had been waiting for this exact day.
FC AshantiGold ’04 were home for the first time in the Ghana Premier League. Newly promoted, still carrying the dust of Division One on their boots, they had taken a point on the opening weekend away at Port City. That was respectable. This was different. This was their house.
Vision FC arrived with swagger. They had opened the season with a 3-0 win over Young Apostles and looked ready to make life uncomfortable for the hosts. For twenty-seven minutes, they did.
Then David Junior Gyamfi took the afternoon and folded it into his own pocket.
Seven minutes. That was all it took. The ball broke kindly on the edge of the box, Gyamfi shifted it onto his right foot, and the finish was clean and low. Len Clay erupted the way only a mining town stadium can erupt — sudden, loud, and full of people who have waited a long time to cheer a Premier League goal on their own grass. 1-0.
Vision did not panic. In the 28th minute Sheriff Mohammed Iddrisu stood over a free-kick, measured the wall, and bent a beauty beyond the AshantiGold keeper. The visitors were level. For a moment the home crowd went quiet, the way crowds do when they remember that promotion is only the beginning of the work.
Gyamfi did not wait for the moment to settle.
Eight minutes later a cross came in from the right. He timed his run, rose, and planted a header that left the goalkeeper with no chance. 2-1. Right foot, then head. The hat-trick was already taking shape, even if no one in the stands was thinking that far yet.
They should have been.
Injury time of the first half was approaching when Gyamfi received the ball again, this time on his left. The strike was not a hopeful swing. It was a proper shot — driven, placed, and struck with the kind of confidence that makes defenders look at each other and wonder when the game slipped away from them. 3-1. The whistle for half-time sounded almost as an afterthought.
A perfect hat-trick. Right foot. Head. Left foot. First hat-trick of the 2026/27 Ghana Premier League season. First Premier League win in the history of FC AshantiGold ’04. First home win at Len Clay in the top flight.
The second half was a holding operation. Vision pushed, AshantiGold sat in and protected what they had. Karim Zito’s side did not need another goal. They needed the three points, and they kept them.
When the final whistle went, Gyamfi was already being swallowed by teammates. Four points from two games. A statement win. A name written into the club’s first chapter in the Premier League.
Obuasi has seen famous strikers wear the gold shirt before. On this particular Saturday, a young forward with a complete set of finishes reminded everyone that the new version of AshantiGold intends to write its own stories.
David Junior Gyamfi. Matchday 2. Perfect hat-trick. 3-1.
The Miners are home.