Malawi national football team have paid dearly for their 4-1 loss to Zimbabwe in March after dropping seven steps down on the latest Fifa rankings released on Thursday. The Flames are on position 121 from last month’s 115 in the world and 36 in Africa. Last month the Flames gain a step despite the 4-1 […]
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has escaped punishment after Fifa only warned him over racist remarks he made on former Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet. A Fifa spokesman was quoted by Nigeria newspaper This Day that Fifa Disciplinary Committee after investigating Saintfiet’s complaint, decided to impose a warning on Keshi over the matter. “A decision was reached on the […]
The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has written to the world soccer governing body Fifa to ask for their decisive Group F World Cup qualifier against Nigeria to be moved from Calabar as well as change the referee to handle the game. Malawi trail Nigeria by two points and must win to progress to the […]
Flames two losses at Cosafa have taken the Flames 10 places down from 108 to 118 on August Fifa/Coca-cola world rankings released Thursday. In Africa Malawi national team is now on position 33 from 30. Malawi is now seventh in Cosafa, a position that the team also finished on at the regional tournament hosted by […]
Malawi national team has maintained for the consecutive month position 109 on Coca-Cola Fifa World latest rankings released on Thursday for the month of May. But they have moved a step up on the Africa continent from 32- 31. The rankings follows Malawi’s one-all draw against Zimbabwe on May 25 at Kamuzu Stadium on Blantyre in a […]
Malawi national football team , the Flames. have maintained position 109 on the latest Coca-Cola Fifa rankings released today. The Flames are ranked position 32 in Africa with their Group F rivals Nigeria on a respectable 28th position in the World and four in Africa having moved three steps up. Another Group F team Namibia, who […]
The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) says t FIFA has granted an approval for the Malawi to play their forthcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Namibia and Kenya back at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. The Flames will line up against Namibia on 5th June and Kenya on 12th June 2013. All these games will now […]
Flames caretaker coach Edington Ng’onamo described the latest Fifa World Ranking released on Thursday as an achievement to the nation but he has stressed that their target is 96 above. In the ranking, the Flames have moved up with two steps from 111 to 109 in the world while in Africa they are ranked 32. […]
Malawi national football team, the Flames, climbed two places in the latest FIFA monthly rankings released by world football’s governing body on Thursday which is a big motivation a head of their World Cup qualifiers against Namibia. The Flames, who are expected to leave for Botswana on Sunday to play the Zebras in a friendly […]
The world soccer governing body Fifa is expected to reschedule Malawi national soccer team World Cup qualifying game, Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has . According to FAM, the development comes following the qualification of Nigeria to the Fifa Confederations Cup. Nigeria are the reigning African champions after beating Burkina Faso 1-0 in the 2013 […]
Malawi’s Flames are expected to launch a new lease of life without their mentor Kinnah Phiri with a possible friendly against Zimbabwe’s Warriors in three weeks time. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) President Walter Nyamilandu confirmed having received a request from the Zimbabweans for an international friendly in Harare on February 6. “They have indeed […]
Soccer analysts in this country have described the recent Malawi national football team slip up on the latest FIFA’s official world ranking which was released on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 as not surprising and have urged soccer administrators to do something about it before things come to worse. The Flames, who are in South Africa […]
Malawi national football team coach Kinnah Phiri has blamed the lack of friendly matches for the Flames as a contributing factor to the team’s drop on the FIFA world rankings. Malawi has dropped five places from 96 to 101 in the latest Coco Cola FIFA world rankings released by the world football mother body on […]
A window of opportunity to learn and understand new tricks and laws of the beautiful game of football has opened to about 36 Malawian referees who are currently undergoing a five day training course at the Chiwembe technical centre in Blantyre. Malawi. In a statement released by Football Association of Malawi (FAM) on Monday and […]
The Malawi national football team (Flames) has dropped by six places in the latest Coca-Cola FIFA world rankings released Wednesday. The Flames, who are in camp preparing for the crucial African Cup of Nations qualifier second leg match against Ghana’s Black Stars, are now ranked 96 out of 207 in the world from 90, a position […]
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has given Malawi national football team, the Flames, a big boost when she donated about K1 million. Sirleaf met Malawi squad and Liberia’s team on Wednesday at the Executive Mansion in Monrovia. Football Association of Malawi officials have confirmed the donation and hailed the Liberian leader for the support. The […]
World soccer governing body FIFA has donated a Defibrillator and a massaging board to the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) to ensure safety of players and their lives when playing international matches. FAM Chief Executive Officer, Suzgo Nyirenda, confirmed the receiving of the equipment in a statement made available to Nyasa Times. Nyirenda said the […]
Youth and Sports Minister Enoch Chihana has said Malawi may have to play the second leg of their 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ghana on 14 October at Civo Stadium in the capital if Kamuzu Stadium will remain closed. Malawi government has closed the country’s Kamuzu stadium in Blantyre after engineers established that some […]