With 17 matches into the 2025-26 Ghana Premier League [GPL] season, 288 goals have been recorded so far by all 18 teams combined.

The low goal-scoring witnessed so far in the season has steadily become a cause of great concern for a number of the top-flight gaffers.

Experts, including a football scientist and regular pundit of Max TV’s GPL analysis discussion on matchdays, insisted it has become a national epidemic.

The 16-team Ivory Coast Ligue 1, ranked the tenth-best premiere division in Africa, even boasts of 237 goals scored after 15 matches.

Head coaches including Bashir Hayford [Heart of Lions], Bishiru Tijani [formerly of Hohoe United], and Mas-Ud Didi Dramani [Hearts of Oak] lamented their teams’ inability to score goals.

Asante Kotoko, despite selling their top marksman in the previous season at the start of the current one, have scored the most goals [24] but are placed 3rd on the league standings.

The top two teams, Medeama SC and Bibiani Goldstars, have unimpressively recorded 22 and 19, respectively.

The lack of goal-scoring is visibly reflected in the continental competitions when GPL teams participate in recent years, with just two [Medeama SC and Dreams FC] qualifying for the group stages.

How can this growing canker be remedied? Are the coaches not good enough? Are the current generation of players simply untalented?