Career
His playing career started off at Great Olympics, where he used to polish the shoes of their management, he had a bet with the then chairman Ade Coker that he could play better than the team players, he was asked to play and showed excellent dribbling skills, he later signed for the club Personal life
On 31st August, 2015, reports suggest that he has been ordained as a priest. Accra Hearts of Oak
Charles Taylor alongside Charles Allotey, Amankwaah Mireku, Joseph Ansah, Jacob Nettey, Stephen Tetteh, Ishmael Addo, Emmanuel Osei Kuffour, Sammy Adjei, Edmund Copson, and Emmanuel Adjogu were deemed as the best squad ever to be assembled by Accra Hearts of oak.
Asante Kotoko
Charles Taylor essentially boycotted training with Hearts of oak and did not play any games way into the season just to force the move.
However, this transfer caused a lot of bitter local sentiment towards Taylor, from which his popularity has never recovered. Taylor joined Etoile du Sahel from Kotoko in 2004 for a fee of United States$250,000 After an unsuccessful spell in Tunisia he was loaned to Accra Hearts of Oak in October 2006.
He was part of the Ghanaian 2004 Olympic football team that exited in the first round, having finished in third place in group B. He was a silver medalist with Ghana U-20 team at 2001 Africa youth championship in Ethiopia. He currently has forty one caps for the Ghana national football team, known as the Black Stars scoring nineteen goals.
Taylor represented the Black Stars at 2009 African Championship of Nations in Côte d"Ivoire,where they chopped second beaten by the famous Congo.
Honours
2000: African Champions League with Accra Hearts of Oak
2000: African Super Cup with Accra Hearts of Oak
2000: Ghana Premier League with Accra Hearts of Oak
2001: Ghana Premier League with Accra Hearts of Oak
2002: Ghana Premier League with Accra Hearts of Oak
2009: African Nations Championship runners-up with Blackstars
2000 - 2003 Hearts of Oak
2003 - 2005 Asante Kotoko
2005 - 2008 Étoile du Sahel
2008 - 2009 Hearts of Oak.