A new chapter has been written in the history of the country’s sports as FDH Bank has unveiled K360 million three-year sponsorship to Netball Association of Malawi (NAM), with K300 million going directly to Malawi Queens, K45 million for a national netball cup and K15 million for NAM administration. Speaking during the unveiling ceremony at […]
All is set for the K8 million Boltsalt Southern Region netball league finals scheduled to take place from 16 and 17 November 2019 at Blantyre Youth Centre. Southern Region Netball League General Secretary, Charity Gondwe said they expect 12 teams representing each district in the region. “The games will start on Saturday to Sunday from […]
Malawi Queens on Monday morning secured a 49-45 victory over African Netball Championship defending champions Uganda’s She Crane at Belleville Velodrome in Cape Town, South Africa. This is a third consecutive win for Malawi Queens coming at the back of another comfortable 70-42 victory over neighbours and impressive 72- 34 triumph over Kenya on Saturday. […]
Blantyre and Districts Netball League struggling teams Vicky Sisters and Polytechnic shared one point each in their Saturday clash that produced a draw of 39-39 baskets at Blantyre Youth Centre. The two teams were meeting just few hours after they were also thrashed in their first matches on same the day where they were taught […]
Mpico plc has pledged continued support towards the sponsorship of netball in the country. The assurance was made by the company’s Financial Controller Cosmas Katulukira after the finals of the 2019 Mpico Gateway Netball Challenge played at the Gateway Mall Netball Court in Lilongwe on Tuesday. Central Region Netball Powerhouse Blue Eagles Sisters have returned […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha included in the 2019/20 National Budget K1.8 billion for stadia projects of local football giants Nyasa Big Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers. Mwanamvekha announced the budget for the projects in his budget statement delivered at Parliament in Lilongwe on Monday. This follows President Peter Mutharika directive to Malawi National […]
Malawi national netball team, the Queens, have been placed on seventh position on the latest International Netball Federation (INF) world rankings. Now the Queens have lost automatic qualification for major tournaments including the Fast5 World Netball Series, which they have been participating in since its inception in 2009. The annual competition is contested for by top-six national teams […]
In-form Southern Region Rainbow Paints Blantyre and District Netball league defending champions Kukoma Diamonds have finished their first round campaign on top of the table with 20 points from 10 games to maintain a 100 percent unbeaten record after walloping their rivals First Choice Tigresses with 40-33 baskets in a Blantyre derby netball crucial encounter […]
Blantyre Youth Centre on Saturday is where netball followers are expected to gather and cheers for their beloved teams as well as watch the much awaited fixture involving the country’s old netball rivals Kukoma Diamonds and First Choice Tigresses who will be tussling in a tight and do-or-die entertaining battle for the first round top […]
Defending champions KukomaDiamonds stamped their superiority in Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball League (SRNL) when they walloped Thunder Queens 38-28 in an exciting match at Blantyre Youth Centre (BYC) on Saturday. Thunder failed in their mission to sting their opponents as Diamond showed no nerves early on and dictated their trademark style from the off, […]
Malawi Queens have jetted into England for their participation at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England to be held over 10 days from 12 July The Queens were in Manchester on Tuesday where they have been joined by star shooter Joyce Mvula but will leave Wednesday for Wales to play three test matches before proceeding to […]
Struggling Machinjiri Sisters continues to be the only remaining team which is yet to register a win and still anchors to the bottom of the log table in the 2019 Rainbow Paints Blantyre and Districts Netball League competition. After suffering for five losses in all their previous encounters the Machinjiri based side on Sunday were […]
Prison Sisters on Thursday beat Shizaella by 49 baskets to 17 in the Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball league in Blantyre. Determined to win this year’s league, Prison Queens showed no mercy to the youngsters at the very beginning of the game with 17 baskets to 6 in the first quarter. Prison Queens shut down […]
It never get sweater than this! Blantyre-based netball powerhouse Tigresses have all the reasons to smile after securing a lucrative K10 million sponsorship deal from one of the top food and beverages company, Lilongwe Diary (2001) Limited and the team will now be called ‘First Choice Tigresses’ respectively. The partnership which is expected to run […]
Tiga Babies were crowned champions of the Alliance Capital Under-20 Netball League on Saturday after walloping Ngumbe with 26-6 baskets in an exciting encounter at Blantyre Youth Centre. Tiga coached by their senior coach Peace Chawinga-Kaluwa received K500 000, while Ngumbe which comes from Blantyre Rural went home with K300 000. For Tiga Babies to […]
President Peter Mutharika has promised to construct a football academy and netball academy to act as base for exporting players to Europe and the rest of the world. Mutharika made the promise Friday at Bingu International ConventionCentre (BICC) in Lilongwe during the Youth Innovation Awards. The President disclosed that a big investor has already expressed interest […]
Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) has imposed a 25 year ban on Karonga Queens Netball player Abigail Mwafulirwa from taking part on any netball related matters, the association General Secretary Carol Bapu has confirmed. Mwafulirwa was found guilty of leading the chaos that led to severely beating of an umpire during one of last year’s […]
Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development Grace Chiumia has warned some Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) leaders to stop playing political games instead of developing the sport. Chiumia made the remarks when she presided over the Presidential Netball finals in Blantyre on Saturday. “This is my second time in this ministry and before […]