Football Association of Malawi invites coaching job applications

Football Association of Malawi has set up the highest level of qualifications for candidates wishing to apply for the vacant Malawi national football team coach. FAM advertised the job of the national team through the local newspapers. The association said it is looking for candidates that “must have a high level of football coaching licence […]

Malawi to hire local coach for national team: No cash, no expatriate

The government of Malawi has shut down its door on the prospects of hiring an expatriate national football coach due to cash constraints. The net searching for the Flames mentor would be cast from within the indigenous Malawians. The Flames have no head coach after the firing of Young Chimodzi and Jack Chamangwana last month. The Football […]

Clubs to suffer as Malawi coach clings to players

Football Association of Malawi (FAM) have announced that Flames players who are currently in camp ahead of an international friendly match against Uganda as part of independence celebrations on Monday 6th July, 2015 will not be released to join their respective clubs. According to Chancy Gondwe who is an interim Flames Team Manager, Coach Mtawali […]

Malawi army, FAM sued over football fan’s death following assault

The family of a football fan, who was assaulted in post-match violence and died in hospital last month after succumbing to serious head injuries has sued Malawi Defence Force (MDF), Red Lions FC, Super League of Malawi (Sulom) and Football Association of Malawi (FAM). Godfrey Mwale, who was a 24-year-old college student, was attacked about […]

Mwachande enters race to challenge Nyamilandu in Malawi FA presidential election

A businessman  Ali Mwachande, who also works as finance and administration manager at Manalera, has announced his intention to stand for the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) presidency. FAM elections are scheduled for this December. Incumbent FAM president Walter Nyamilandu is standing for a fourth term despite growing opposition to his presidency from the soccer fraternity as […]

Homesick Kinnah would love to coach Malawi again

Malawi football team and Big Bullets legend Kinnah Phiri is homesick and yearns for a return to coach the national team. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) fired Kinnah as Malawi head coach in January 2013 and government redeployed him as regional football officer alongside Young Chimodzi and Jack Chamangwana who were hired again later in 2013. Kinnha has […]

Malawi FA tax evasion scam last thing Nyamilamdu wanted as he seeks fourth term

Football Association of Malawi (FAM), incumbent president Walter Nyamilandu has  struck a defiant tone that he will go ahead to seek fourth term at the end of the year despite a reported tax evasion scam for the country’s football governing body. Published reports on Monday June 22, 2015 indicated that FAM and its clearing agent […]

Malawi FA president Nyamilandu closes in on fourth term

Football Association of Malawi (FAM), incumbent president Walter Nyamilandu has edged closer to taking on another mandate after being backed by six affiliates for the elections due in December. Nyamilandu had earlier indicated that he will not seek a fourth term in charge of Malawi football but has performed a dramatic U-turn after affiliates said […]

Young resigned as Malawi coach after Cosafa debacle, FAM forced him to stay on

Former Malawi national football team Young Chimodzi resigned after the team failed to meet one of the targets that Football Association of Malawi (FAM) had set aside. Well placed sources said Chimodzi throw in the towel at the Cosafa in South Africa but it took FAM officials to convince him to stay on until the […]

Ex-football star proposes legend Lule for Malawi coaching job

Former Malawi national football star Chiza Nyirongo has proposed Football Association of Malawi (Fam) to consider hiring Flames legend Lawrence ‘Lule’ Waya for the job. Chiza, the former University Football Club (UFC) and MDC United player said Lule had come of age to be handed the national football team coach mantle. His observation comes after […]

Malawi hires Ernest Mtawali as caretaker coach: Chimodzi, Chamangwana released

The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has sent the national team head coach Young Chimodzi and his assistant Jack Chamangwa on forced leave and has since appointed former midfield maestro Ernest Mtawali as care taker coach for the Flames. During an extra ordinary meeting held on Sunday in Chiwembe in Blantyre, FAM  again showed it won’t tolerate […]

Walter calls fan’s death a murder as Malawi FA seek justice: Pictorial

There were emotional tributes at College of Medicine in Blantyre on Friday when the body of late soccer fan Geoffrey Mwale who died in the wee hours of the day, was being taken to his home village Chiwengo in the area of Traditional Authority Chilowamatambe in Kasungu where he will be buried on Sunday. Mwale, […]

Football Association of Malawi welcomes Blatter’s resignation

Football Association of Malawi (FAM) President Walter Nyamilandu has said the resignation of the world football governing body Fifa president Joseph Sepp Blatter is welcome development for the of game. Nyamilandu said the resignation was inevitable with the mounting pressure over money laundering, corruption and bribes dogging the association. “It’s shocking but not surprising. That […]

Nyamilandu waters down fourth term calls for Malawi FA presidency

Football Association of Malawi (FAM) President Walter Nyamilandu has lived up to his word not to stand for a fourth term of office when the association holds elctions in December. Three affiliates National Football Coaches Committee (NFCC), National Youth Football Committee (NYFC)  and Central Region Football Association have started dangling the carrot for the former […]

Malawi coaches told to win Cosafa cup, ‘no scapegoats’

Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Walter Nyamilandu has challenged Malawi coaches to win the 2015 Cosafa Cu p, saying there will be no an excuse if they fail to win the cup because his association provided everything the team needed in its preparations for the competition. The association has set winning the Cosafa Cup […]

Malawian Airlines boost Flames Cosafa media coverage

Apart from watching the ongoing Cosafa Cup Competition currently underway in the Rainbow Nation of South Africa, Malawians will have a privilege of getting first hand information from someone on the ground as Malawian Airlines has donated a return air ticket worth K300, 000.00 to FAM’s Competitions Manager and Media officer Gomezgani Zakazaka. This is […]

Mouth watering fixtures in Carlsberg Cup Malawi: Draw conducted

The first national preliminary round of the prestigious Carlsberg Cup games are expected to kick-off on 30-31 May after Football Association of Malawi ( FAM) conducted the first draw at Chiwembe Technical Centre in the commercial of Malawi, Blantyre. The draw was conducted by FAM Competitions manager Gomezgani Zakazaka and Carlsberg Malawi Events Coordinator Jibu […]