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Peter Lamptey

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Peter Lamptey
Personal information
Date of birth (1946-04-06)6 April 1946
Place of birth Ghana
Date of death 9 October 2025(2025-10-09) (aged 79)
Place of death Accra, Ghana
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1979 Hearts of Oak (79)
1980 Great Olympics (8)
Total (87)
International career
1971–1973 Ghana 6 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Peter Lamptey (6 April 1946 – 9 October 2025) was a Ghanaian footballer who played as a forward. He spent most of his club football with Hearts of Oak and Great Olympics, becoming top scorer in the Ghanaian league in 1973.[1][2] He made six appearances for the Ghana national team.[3]

Club career

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While playing with Hearts of Oak, Lamptey, together with Mohammed Polo, Mama Acquah, Robert Hammond and Anas Seidu were known as "The fearsome fivesome".[4] He was often referred to as the "goal thief" for his scoring prowess. He was the Ghana Premier League top scorer in 1973 when he scored 26 goals in 21 matches,[1] and he captained the side to the African Cup of Champions Clubs finals in 1977.

He later spent the 1980 season at Accra Great Olympics where he scored eight goals before he retired.[3]

International career

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In 1971, Lamptey was invited to the Ghana national team for the first time.[1] He was in the Ghana team that participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics football tournament.[5][1] He was the youngest player in the team at 26 years, 144 days[6] and featured in all Ghana's matches played.[7]

Death

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Lamptey died in Accra on 9 October 2025, at the age of 79.[8]

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League African Cup of Champions Clubs
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals
Hearts of Oak 1972 Ghana Premier League 2+
1973[1][3] Ghana Premier League 21 26
1977 Ghana Premier League 1+
Total 79
Great Olympics 1980[3] Ghana Premier League 8 —
Career total 87 —

    International

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    Appearances and goals by national team and year[3]
    National team Year Apps Goals
    Ghana 1971 0 0
    1972 5 0
    1973 1 0
    Total 6 0

    Honours

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    Hearts of Oak

    Individual

    References

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    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osei Asibey, Charles (23 September 2010). "Peter Lamptey, Ghana's first 'goalking'". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
    2. ↑ Amoako, Emmanuel (29 April 1975). Nkrumah, I. K. (ed.). Daily Graphic: Issue 7632 April 29 1975. Ghana: Graphic Communications Group. p. 11.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 Peter Lamptey at National-Football-Teams.com
    4. ↑ "Ghana mourns former star". Ghana Football Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
    5. ↑ "Peter Lamptey". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
    6. ↑ "Ghana Football at the 1972 München Summer Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
    7. ↑ "XX. Olympiad Munich 1972 Football Tournament". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
    8. ↑ "Hearts of Oak legend Peter Lamptey passes away". Ghana Soccernet. 10 October 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
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