Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced that the referees’ fitness test will take place this weekend in all the three regions of the country. The development has been revealed in a statement released by the association on Wednesday and made available to Nyasa Times. “The Football Association of Malawi would like to inform you […]
This Saturday’s Lilongwe derby between league leaders Silver Strikers and Epac United scheduled for Silver Stadium could just be one more wave of hand of fate before the destination of the 2012/2013 TNM Super League title is finally decided. It is a clash one cannot afford to miss as the bankers aim to cling to […]
Malawi’s only foreign netball player Mwawi ‘Professor’ Kumwenda is back in Australia on for a third consecutive stint with Victorian Netball League (VNL) outfit Peninsula Waves after completing her off-season break. The league’s best player of the year said she is happy to be back and ready for a third eight-month contract. “I arrived safely […]
Malawi national football team (the Flames) captain Peter Mponda has slammed Minister of Sports Enock Chihana for dictating Football Association of Malawi (FAM) on Flames coach issues instead of concentrating on funding the national team. Mponda said it was surprising for the minister to be dealing directly with the coaching issues instead of just working on […]
The ghost of match-fixing has returned to haunt Malawi football with Blantyre United technical director Lawson Nakoma claiming his four players were involve in match fixing in their 5-0 defeat to title contenders Silver Strikers in the TNM Super League on Sunday at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe. Nakoma said four players of Blantyre United had […]
Blantyre United head coach Elia Kananji on Sunday confessed his team’s dream of clinching the top flight 2012-13 TNM Super League title is virtually over, calling it mission impossible after a disappointing 0-5 defeat to defending champions Silver Strikers at Silver Stadium. The win took Silver back on top of the log table 24 hours […]
Victor Mpinganjira delivered a clinical brace and Gerald Phiri Junior grabbing the other in a 3-0 winfor Mighty Wanderers against relegated Escom United to enable the Blues to climb back into top four of the TNM Super League in a match played before a big crowd at Kamuzu Stadium on Sunday. The Nomads kept a firm grip […]
10-man Big Bullets FC on Saturday, February 02, 2013 piled more pressure on hot favourites Silver Strikers after hitting Civo United 2-0 in a TNM Super League match played before a mammoth crowd at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe. Midfielder Dalitso Sailes put the Bullets on the winning trail barely 14 minutes into the game when […]
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) is preparing to hire SureStream Football Academy official, who is also England football consultant Andy Dell as the new Flames coach, Nyasa Times understands. “There are two names from SureStream Academy tipped for the job. Patrick Kulemeka and Andy Dell. But the favourite name to take the mantle as the […]
Malawi football fraternity on Friday paid tribute to coach Dave Mpesi at a requiem mass held at the Catholic Institute Parish in Blantyre before his body was taken to his home village at T/A Kapeni in Lunzu, Blantyre for burial. Mpesi. who died on Wednesday at Mzuzu Central Hospital where he was referred to following […]
Kinnah Phiri, fired as Malawi national football team coach, has kept his cards close to the chest if he will take up his new role as northern region football director. Government announced on Friday that Kinnah has been deployed to a northern region sports development office. Kinnah’s assistant Young Chimodzi has been handled the mantle […]
…player exodus looms at Escom Escom United caretaker coach Alex Masanjala has declared he does not regret taking up a coaching offer at the struggling outfit, saying his job is to help young players. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times after drawing blank from central region, where his side was eventually condemned to […]
Football has been united in grief by the death of the former Big Bullets coach Dave Mpesi with some Super League coaches expressing shock on his sudden death. Mpesi died Wednesday in a car accident in the northern region district of Rumphi. According to police, Mpesi was on his way to Chitipa when the car […]
Super League of Malawi of Malawi (Sulom) has slapped Moyale Barracks F.C with a fine of K150, 000.00 and handed their goalkeeper Mac Donald Harawa a six months ban for violent conduct following an incident in which he punched a referee in their 2-0 defeat in the hands of Big Bullets on Sunday. Moyale stopper […]
Dave Mpesi, the former Big Bullets and Escom United coach died on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at Mzuzu Central Hospital after being involved in a car accident. The death has been confirmed by former Embangweni United coach Etson Kadenge Mwafulirwa. Mwafulirwa, speaking to Nyasa Times from Mzuzu Central Hospital mortuary , said Mpesi was travelling to […]
The Malawi national team head coach Kinnah Phiri has argued that the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) had no basis to recommend to government that he should be sacked. FAM issued a media statement last week that it had fired Kinnah alongside his technical team following a string of poor results by the Flames. But the sports […]
The sentence has now been passed on former league champions Escom United and Bvumbwe Research, who have both been relegated from the TNM Super League after dropping valuable points in central region at the weekend. Passing the sentence were defending champions and current league leaders Silver Strikers and notorious Epac FC, who mercilessly humbled the […]
Big Bullets underlined its determination to wrestle the title from Silver Strikers when they displayed a splendid performance in the TNM Super League against highly temperamental Moyale Barracks on Sunday at Kamuzu Stadium and claimed a 2-0 victory to boost their chances of chasing the title this year. However, it was Moyale who kicked-off the […]