When some young men from Ussher Town in Accra came together sometime in the middle of 1910, little did they know that they were sowing the seed which would one day blossom into the Mighty Oak Tree, that is Accra Hearts, the oldest existing club in the country today.

Infact those glorious pioneers had been bound together by one single desire to form a club to challenge the only then existing team in Accra - The Invincibles, made up of mainly young men from the James Town area.

But it was the young man from Saltpond where the game of soccer had been played earlier on who gave the newly formed club inspiration and guidance. He was Ackom Duncan who become its first captain.

Duncan took up the training of the players and by 1911, Hearts were ready to take on the Invincibles. But it was on November 11, the same year that Hearts outdoored their first jerseys and thus formally was born the club, which was to grow into easily one of the most popular clubs in the country to date

Significantly the club began with no elected officers. It was the playing body which madeup the membership, with all and sundry accepting the leadership of Ackom Duncan.

Some of the founding players were William A. Simeon-Okraku, C. B. Nettey, who was later to become the chairman of Accra Football Association, J. T. O. Ankrah, father of 'Black Flash' Roy Ankrah, the first West African to win the Commonwealth featherweight boxing crown. J. A. Aryee, Dodoo Annarig, Darko Abbey, Mark Nettey, Amponsah Solomon, Kwashie Solomon.

Other pioneers were W. W. Bruce-Tagoe, T. F. Bruce Tagoe, William Ocran, Peter Malm, Quarshie Coker, AdoIf Simeon-Okraku, Alfred Simeon-Okraku and teacher F. D. Amoo.

It was in 1914 that Hearts appointed its first secretary, one captain Mark Nettey in whose house in Ussher Town the club first met before the outdooring of its jerseys three years earlier. In the same year, the club appointed the late Hanson Sackey, an auctioneer who had been the father-figure of the club in the formative years, a patron, and then acquired a new park.

But it was there that hearts began to show its unyielding spirit and resilience which were to culminate in the motto "Never Say Die". Despite the breach, membership of the club continued to grow resulting in the formation of two other sides, Auroras in 1912 and Dwarfs in 1914

It was in 1917 that Hearts decided to change its colours. The task was accomplished by Bruce-Tagoe who came out with rainbow colours - red. yellow and blue. When it was approved, a set of jersey in the new colours was ordered from Manchester. U. K.

Outdooring of the new jerseys was marked with a match against the old rivals, the Invincibles. Hearts emerged winners by a lone goal.

The same year saw the election of the club's first chairman, the late S. Q. Nelson, an engineer who had played football in Nigeria.

The first major triumph by Hearts in competitive soccer came in 1922 when the then Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Gordon Guggisberg, donated a shield for an Accra football league in Accra which had been firmly established in 1920.

Hearts won the first competition and the Guggisberg Shield at stake becoming the first city Champions.

They went on to win it six times out of 12 competitions and are its proud custodians today having won the last contest in 1954.

The club underwent some transformation in 1939 when it infused new blood into the side. Among the new players was proficient fight winger, popularly known as Joe Ankrah, better known as General J. A. General of the erstwhile National Liberation Council (NLC) and Life Patron of Hearts.