The Tema Community four football team emerged the over all winners in a football gala organized jointly by the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) and Tema Municipal Assembly (TMA) as part of activities marking the 50th anniversary of Tema as a planned city.

Community five Ebony Academy placed second while Kpone team placed third in the competition in which 16 communities in the Tema municipality participated. The Community Four team was presented with a trophy donated by the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) plus one million cedis while the second and third places had ?800,000 and ?500,000 respectively.

The Community seven team was presented with ?300,000 for winning the "fair play" while all the participating teams had consolation prizes.

Addressing the players after the match, Edward Ashietey Armaah, an elder of Tema Traditional Council (TTC) who represented Tema Mantse, Nii Adjei Kraku impressed upon the authorities to construct a modern stadium to befit the status of Tema.

Armaah, a retired referee, regretted that Tema, the industrial nerve of the country has no presentable stadium to boast off saying that the deplorable state of the present stadium is not encouraging footballers to put in their best.

Following the poor condition of the stadium, very important matches that needed to be hosted at Tema had to be played at the Accra Sport Stadium hence the gala was played on the Community four Presco Park.

E.C.K. Azumah, a Director of the TMA said in view of the good performance displayed by the players, the authorities would consider making the gala an annual affair among the communities. To this end, he called on the leaders to register their teams with the TMA which would find how best to assist them.

Kofi Mensah Demetia, Director of Administration of the TDC and chairman of the anniversary planning committee announced that a trade centre would be established at the coastal area of Tema to promote business and tourism.