Benjamin Asare: Football Profile, Club, Caps, Net Worth and World Cup Story

Benjamin Asare is a Ghanaian goalkeeper, born on 13 July 1992 in Mampong-Akuapem, who joined Accra Hearts of Oak from Great Olympics in July 2024 and started in goal for Ghana at the 2026 World Cup. He made his Black Stars debut in a 5-0 World Cup qualifying win over Chad in March 2025 and became the first Ghana Premier League based goalkeeper to start for Ghana at a World Cup in 2026. Those are the three things most people come looking for, so they sit at the top.

Ghana's route to the 2026 World Cup ran through its own league for one of its goalkeepers: Asare, a footballer (a soccer player, to South African readers), was 32 when he first played for Ghana, and he got there from the Ghana Premier League rather than from a European club. What follows puts the scattered headlines about him, the pay rise, the awards, the contract and the England match, into one timeline from 2017 to 2026, and explains how to read the live numbers in the modules above.

Who Is Benjamin Asare?

Benjamin Asare is a Ghanaian goalkeeper, born on 13 July 1992 in Mampong-Akuapem. What makes him unusual is where he plays his club football. He is a home based player, earning his living in the Ghana Premier League, and he still started in goal at a World Cup in 2026. For readers in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, that is the part worth comparing with the local league keepers in your own national squad.

Which club does he play for? Accra Hearts of Oak, who signed him from Accra Great Olympics in July 2024 and extended his contract in April 2025 so that it runs through 2027.

How many caps does he have? He made his debut in March 2025, and every international window can add to the total, so the live count of caps and goals is best read from the data modules above, which update after each Ghana match.

From Sporting Mirren to Hearts of Oak: The Road to the Black Stars

Asare's senior career begins in 2017 at Sporting Mirren, when he was already in his mid twenties. He moved to Accra City Stars for 2018 to 2020. Those are the quiet years of a long route to the national team, and the story is told in dates and matches.

The breakthrough came at Accra Great Olympics, where he spent 2020 to 2024 and made 74 league appearances. His last season there, 2023-24, is the one that changed his career. He finished it with 16 clean sheets, the most of any goalkeeper in the league, even though Great Olympics were relegated.

Hearts of Oak signed him in July 2024, the month he turned 32. In 2024-25, his first season at Hearts, he kept 12 clean sheets in 18 league matches. His first Ghana call up arrived in March 2025, and the contract extension through 2027 followed the month after. Inside a year he went from Great Olympics to the national team, and that is the short version of the whole road.

What Benjamin Asare Does on the Pitch

Asare is judged first on the oldest measure in his position, the clean sheet, a match finished without conceding. His two reference seasons are 16 clean sheets in 2023-24 at Great Olympics and 12 in 18 league matches in 2024-25 at Hearts, which works out at two in every three games. A Nigerian reader would call that the record of a proper shot stopper, and a Kenyan one might say a reliable custodian. Either way, the numbers describe consistency across two seasons at two different clubs, which is harder to produce than one good afternoon.

The defining performances carry their dates. In March 2025 he kept clean sheets against Chad and Madagascar in the same World Cup qualifying window. In 2026 he made key saves in the 0-0 draw with England at the World Cup, and that match answered the question asked of any home based keeper, whether he can hold his own against forwards from Europe's top leagues, in a way that few league seasons could.

The awards followed the form. In 2025 he was named Male Home-Based Footballer of the Year at the 50th Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Awards and Goalkeeper of the Year at the Ghana Football Awards. The league also named him Goalkeeper of the Month for May/June 2025 and again for September 2025. If you want to place him among other African footballers, start with those prizes and the two clean sheet seasons, then read this season's figures from the modules, which keep the count current.

Benjamin Asare and the Black Stars: Debut, Caps and World Cup 2026

His first Ghana call up came in March 2025, for the World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar. He made his debut in the 5-0 win over Chad and kept a clean sheet, then kept another against Madagascar. He was 32, an age at which most internationals are counting their caps, and he was starting from none. A goalkeeper has no goals to list, so the entries that matter in his record are the clean sheets, and those two came in the World Cup qualifiers against Chad and Madagascar.

Coach Carlos Queiroz named him in Ghana's 26 man squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup on 2 June 2026. MyJoyOnline recorded that he became the first Ghana Premier League based goalkeeper to start a World Cup match for Ghana, and that he played in two matches. Graphic Online put it slightly differently on 22 September 2026, describing him as the first locally based goalkeeper to play a full 90 minutes for Ghana at a World Cup. Both point the same way, and the 0-0 draw with England is the result attached to his name.

His cap count keeps moving with each international window, so the data modules carry it. For Ghanaian readers, the pride is in the route, since the domestic league supplied a World Cup starter. For followers of the Super Eagles, Harambee Stars, Bafana Bafana and the Cranes, he is a useful yardstick whenever the debate turns to whether a keeper from the local league (the PSL, in the South African case) can hold the national shirt.

Benjamin Asare net worth

No published net worth estimate has been identified for Benjamin Asare, so there is no net worth figure, outlet or year to attribute. Yen.com.gh reported in 2025 that his monthly salary at Hearts of Oak rose from about GHS 3,000 to about GHS 10,000 in connection with his contract extension through 2027. The club has not confirmed the salary figures. These are published estimates, not accounts.

For a rough illustration, assuming GHS 1 equals NGN 120, KES 12, ZAR 1.60 and UGX 350, the reported earlier monthly salary of 3,000 Ghanaian cedis would be about 360,000 Nigerian naira, 36,000 Kenyan shillings, 4,800 South African rand or 1,050,000 Ugandan shillings. The reported higher monthly salary of 10,000 Ghanaian cedis would be about 1.2 million naira, 120,000 Kenyan shillings, 16,000 rand or 3.5 million Ugandan shillings. These are illustrative conversions using assumed rates, not dated exchange rate quotations; actual equivalents depend on the rate used.

No separate image rights income figure is available, so there is no figure, outlet or year to attribute or convert. No market value estimate is recorded, so there is no figure, outlet or year to attribute or convert for that category either. No endorsement deals or earnings are recorded, so there are no endorsement figures, outlets or years to attribute or convert. These gaps do not mean the amounts are zero. Net worth means assets minus debts; salary, image rights income, transfer market value and endorsement earnings cannot individually establish it.

How to Watch Benjamin Asare From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Asare plays two sets of fixtures, the Ghana Premier League with Hearts of Oak and internationals with the Black Stars. The fixtures module above shows every match with its kick off time in GMT, WAT, SAST and EAT together, so nobody has to do the sums. Accra keeps GMT all year round. Clocks in Lagos and Abuja (WAT) read GMT plus one, Johannesburg and Pretoria (SAST) read plus two, and Nairobi and Kampala (EAT) read plus three. A league match that starts mid afternoon in Accra is therefore an early evening game in Nairobi and Kampala.

Where to watch is listed per country beside each fixture as data, because broadcast arrangements change from season to season and differ between league and international matches. In Ghana, the habit is as much radio and messaging groups as television, with match day viewing in bars and at home when the Black Stars play. Elsewhere on the continent, Ghana internationals are the likelier route to seeing him, especially World Cup and AFCON qualifiers. So, check the listing for your country on the day, and treat anything written months ago about channels as out of date.