Malawi National Senior Football Team on Sunday painfully bowed out of the Cosafa Cup after going down 4-2 to neighbor Zambia through post match penalties in an exciting match played at the Prince Magogo Stadium in Durban, South Africa. The Flames gave away a two nil lead to salvage a two all draw at the end of regulation […]
National football team coach Ronny van Geneugden (RVG) says the export of Robin Ngalande and Yamikani Chester to Europe is good for Malawi football as the country needs to expose more players to top level football if the Flames are to become more competitive. RVG was reacting to Ngalande’s signing a five-month deal with Azerbaijan […]
Malawi Senior National Football Team Coach Roy Van Geneugden (RVG) has released names of 29 locally based players expected to go into camp on Sunday and start preparing for the 2019 back to back African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers against Cameroon. Flames first meeting against the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon is away in Yaounde […]
Legendary Malawi centre back Gilbert Chirwa , who is coach for a Super League side, Mzuni FC, says there is a big problem in player selection for the Malawi National Football Team and as such positive results are hard to come by. Chirwa was speaking to sports journalists on Saturday when Voice of Livingstonia’s Allan […]
Malawi national team Captain Joseph Kamwendo has come out into open to respond to the accusations that he refused to be substituted during a 2017 African Cup of Nations Qualifying match against Zimbabwe on Saturday in which Malawi lost 2-1. It was reported that the TP Mazembe midfielder defied Flames Coach Young Chimodzi’s decison to […]
Malawi national team Captain Joseph Kamwendo refused to be substituted during the team’s 2-1 loss to Zimbabwe in a Group L qualifying match of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday afternoon. The Flames were humiliated at home by Zimbabwe Warriors, who arrived in Malawi by road a […]
Live updates from Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre: Malawi v Zimbabwe in the 2017 Afcon qualifier. – referee Christopher Nde blows his whistle for full-time break. Full-time score: Malawi 1-2 Zimbabwe – 90+1′ Substitution for Malawi: Phiri comes on for Nyirenda – 4 minutes of added time to be played – 89′ Substitution for Zimbabwe: Mahachi makes way for […]
Malawi national football coaches Young Chimodzi and his assistant Jack Chamangwana are in the dark over the Football Association of Malawi’s intention to engage a British coach Andy Dell as consultant for a month. Assistant coach Jack Chamangwana declined to comment on how they would work with the British coach who was once coach of […]
Malawi national football squad is not happy with the standards of the hotel offered by Mali to accommodate the team ahead of the crucial Africa Cup of Nationals group qualifier match in Bamako. The delegation leader David Dube said their hosts have offered them a sub-standard hotel Olympe Hotel after arriving on Wednesday. Dube said the […]
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has released a list of 34 players to start camping on Sunday for the Africa Cup of Nations group qualifiers against Mali on September 6 and Ethiopia on September 10. FAM has included three new faces Saidi Ntekema of Mafco, Bullet Victor Limbani, Azama Tigers’ Malumbo Gondwe, Red Lions Kumbani Mwembeni and a surprise call […]
Malawi’s Flames on Sunday, July 06, 2014 threw away a first half lead to draw 1-all against visiting Mozambique’s Mambas during an international friendly match marking Malawi’s 50 years of Independence played at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe. Playing before the huge crowd that turned up for the main Golden Jubilee celebrations including Head of State President Arthur […]
The Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has dangled an incentive ofMK200,000 to each player for a win against Nigeria in the dramatic final group 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers scheduled for 7th September 2013 in Calabar. FAM general secretary Suzgho Nyirenda said they will fork out the money is the Flames secure a victory away […]
Malawi blew its last chance-saloon to qualify for the Cosafa Castle Cup semI-finals after giving away early to lose against Angola on Tuesday in Kitwe, Zambia. The Flames who lost to Cosafa Cup defending champions Zimbabwe’s Warriors on Saturday in Lusaka, were given an opportunity to play in the quarter-final losers’ plate division . This […]
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has hired an expatriate coach for the 2014 World Cup decisive qualifier against Nigeria’s Super Eagles and demoted the current caretaker coach Eddington Ng’onamo for the mission slated for mid-September. FAM president Walter Nyamilandu confirmed that they are hiring Belgian Tom Saintfiet, a former Nigeria technical director He also coached […]
Malawi Under-17 national soccer team on Saturday came from behind to beat Botswana’s Young Zebras 2-1 in the first leg of the Confederation of African Youth (CAF) Championship preliminary round, first leg at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe. Playing before a sizeable crowd, the visitors scored the opening goal of the match in the 18th minute through […]