Real Tamale United (RTU) official Mohammed Kayaba has pledged that the club will implement measures to prevent a repeat of the player impersonation incident that led to severe sanctions from the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
The club was fined GHc100,000 and several officials received one-year bans from football-related activities.
"We are just hoping and praying that what we did will never in the history of Real Tamale United repeat itself again," he told Peace FM as monitored by Footballghana.com
"We have learned a bitter lesson even before this verdict and we have put in some measures in place to make sure that going forward what happened will never happen to Real Tamale United," he added.
The GFA Disciplinary Committee found RTU guilty of intentionally deceiving match officials by using unregistered players to impersonate registered ones during their Matchday 28 game against Dreams FC. The club was charged with bringing the game into disrepute, a violation of Section 34(6)(d) of the GFA Premier League Regulations.
The banned RTU officials include Iddi Manzah Alhassan, Abdul-Samed Iddrisu, Abdul-Gafaru Salifu, Tanko Jentumah, and Sylvester Yaw Apanka. The sanctions take immediate effect.