Charles Kwabla Akonnor

Akonnor started his career with colts club Young Hearts located in Tema in 1985. He was scouted by former Ghana Premier League side Okwawu United, signing for the team in 1988. He played there till 1990 when he secured a deal to join Obuasi Goldfields.

Fortuna Köln

Akonnor first came to Germany in 1992, along with friend and national teammate Samuel Kuffour. He joined Fortuna Köln in 1992 upon his arrival. He played for the side for six years, playing 159 matches in all competitions (153 league matches) and scoring 26 goals all in league matches, averaging a minimum of 26 matches per season.

VfL Wolfsburg

Having played for six years with Fortuna Köln (all in the second division), he switched in 1998 to Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg. He made his competitive debut for the club on 15 August 1998, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 league loss to Bayern Munich. On 28 August 1998, Akonnor scored his competitive debut goal, by scoring the winning goal in the 88th minute of a 4–3 DFB-Pokal victory against Karlsruher SC. On 19 September 1998, he scored his debut league goal in a 4–2 loss to Werder Bremen. At Wolfsburg, Akonnor quickly developed as a resourceful player and one of the team's most important elements and, in 2001–02, was given team captaincy. However, at the start of the following season he was injured (a knee problem which required an operation in 2003) causing him to miss a greater part of the season. He left the club in January 2004 after five…

At the international level, he capped for Ghana at the under-20 level, U23 and the senior team. At the youth level, he starred for Ghana, and helped them third place during the 1991 African Youth Championship but unfortunately losing out on qualifying for the World Youth Championship. Two years later the team returned and this time won 1993 African Youth Championship and qualified for the World Youth Championship. The team went on and placed second at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship, losing to Brazil by 2–1 in the final after Emmanuel Duah had put Ghana ahead in the first half. In the team's route to the final, he scored a goal in their final group stage match against Portugal to help them to a 2–0 victory and qualify for the quarter-finals. Akonnor along with players from that squad like Samuel Osei Kuffour, Mohamed Gargo, Augustine Arhinful, Emmanuel Duah and Stephen Baidoo would later graduate into the senior team to become the core members. In July 1996, he was part and served as captain of the 1996 Ghana Olympic squad at the 1996 Summer Olympics. The team finished in second place in Group C, but later lost and exit the competition in the quarter-finals after losing Brazil, a match which Akonnor scored the initial equalizer to grant Ghana a 1–1 before half time but lost by 4–2 at the end through a brace from Ronaldo and a goal from Bebeto. For the senior team Akonnor would go on and make 51 international caps and later was named captain of the Black Stars…

Sekondi Wise Fighters

On 19 February 2009, Akunnor signed a contract as head coach for Sekondi Wise Fighters where he worked with his former national teammate Nii Lamptey as his assistant. On 22 January 2010, he was named as the director of sport of the Sekondi Wise Fighters. His successor as head coach was Hans-Dieter Schmidt.

Accra Hearts of Oak

On 19 March 2012, Akonnor was named as head coach of the Glo Premier League club Hearts of Oak succeeding Nebojša Vučićević. In November 2012, he was sacked after a poor start of the season with the club picking four points of a possible 15 with losses in their last three games to Ebusua Dwarfs, Wa All Stars and Berekum Chelsea.

Dreams

In 2014, Akonnor was appointed as the head coach of then Ghana Division One League side Dreams. The following year, he led the team to the Ghana Premier League for the time in the club's history after winning the 2015 Ghana Division One League Zone III getting promoted to compete in the 2016 Ghana Premier League season. In their debut GPL season, he led to ninth-place finish. The club was however demoted by the Ghana Football Association's Disciplinary Committee to the Ghana Division One League in December 2016 due to an anomaly with the registration of a player. He left the club permanently in November 2017 following his short-term contract with Ashanti Gold. He subsequently signed a permanent deal with Ashanti Gold.

Ashanti Gold

In April 2017, Akonnor returned…

Akonnor was born and bred in Nungua, a suburb of Accra but hails from Ningo Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana making him a Ga-Adangbe. He had his basic and junior high school education at Nungua Primary School/JHS and later proceeded to the Nungua Presbyterian Secondary and Commercial School for his secondary school education. Whilst in school, he played football and was an integral member of the school's football team whilst representing the school in juvenile championships and other inter-school games.