FIFA referee Gift Chicco has failed to travel to Rwanda to take charge of a CAF Champions League match between hosts Association Sportive de Kigali and visitors CS Sfaxien from Tunisia after testing positive to Covid-19. The game will be played at Stade de Kigali in the Rwandan Capital on 20th February, 2021. Chicco together […]
Malawian referees continue to put the country on the map with their excellent performances as observed by both the world football governing body FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Referee Gift Vincent Chicco will be in charge of a CAF Champions League match in Rwanda involving hosts Association Sportive de Kigali and visitors […]
Malawian FIFA assistant referee Clemence Kanduku is expected to officiate at the 2021 Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations to take place in Mauritania between February 14 and March 6, 2021. Kanduku is among the 35 African referees that Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) has selected for the biannual tournament. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) Referees […]
Poor officiation has dominated the talk of weekend TNM Super League matches starting with Saturday when grade-one referee Harrison Chinua allowed Tigers FC to have 12 players on the pitch during the match against Ekwendeni Hammers. The referee lost count when Tigers made triple substitution in the second half at Mpira Stadium. But despite the […]
Easter Kalikokha Zimba has become the first elite referee to publicly declare that he has tested positive for Coronavirus. Kalikokha Zimba confirmed testing positive for Covid-19 through a Facebook post. He says “in view of football restart road-map, all referees and players were asked to undergo Covid-19 tests. “Here in central region, we did on […]
About 36 elite referees from across the country are expected to take part in 2021 FIFA International Referees Panel Listing Fitness Test this Saturday in Lilongwe. The exercise, which will be held at Bingu National Stadium on 24th October 2020, is aimed at testing referees to come up with 15 referees to be nominated for […]
Football referees feel the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) should hold a symposium in which coaches from all the sixteen super league clubs can be updated on the new amendments made to football laws by IFAB. One referee’s instructor, MoffatChampiti, has said it is important for coaches to understand the new amendments together with all […]
Malawi referees will commence the 2020 football season without any physical fitness test as is usually the case every season. The trend has always been to undergo physical fitness tests before the start of every season. Through such tests, some referees are deemed fit to take charge of games in the TNM Super League while […]
Football Association of Malawi [FAM] in conjunction with the National Football Referees Association [MFRA] has launched online training for elite match officials ensure the men in black remain active physically and be updated on football laws amid the novel Covid-19 football lockdown. The local programme is an extension of the Council for Southern Africa Football […]
Malawian FIFA referee Ibra Mafuleka on Friday passed on at Kamuzu Central Hospital after a day long illness. Mafuleka passed his recent physical fitness at Bingu National Stadium two weeks ago and was certified fit to continue officiating matches in Malawi and other continental assignments like the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), CAF Champions League […]
Malawian elite female referee Bernadettar Kwimbira Nzika has passed the referees fitness test in Rabat, Morocco where she is taking part in a five day Video Assistant Referee (VAR) Course in preparation for the 2020 African Nations Championship to be hosted by Cameroon in next month. She did not participate in the fitness tests that […]
Lilongwe City Council (LCC) through its sports department has drilled 14 junior referees of under-17 football players in refereeing techniques as a way of empowering youngsters to take part in refereeing junior football matches. Among the trained junior referees, eight are boys while six are girls drawn from various football clubs (FCs) from Lilongwe City […]
Northern region based youthful female referee, Rose Zimba, says she is excited with her recent achievement in attaining the highest rank in her refereeing career which is a clear manifestation of her hard work. Zimba was recently promoted from Grade 1 to obtain a FIFA batch which allows one to take charge of football matches […]
Malawi’s top referees Dennis Nguluwe, Patrick Ngoleka and Mercy Mziya have been stripped of their badges by the world football governing body Fifa and have been replaced by other new whistle-blowers. The referees were stripped of their badges following their lapses in performance as regards behaviour, competence in officiation of games and fitness levels, Football […]
Malawian FIFA female referee Benadettar Kwimbira Nzika will attend a Confederation of African Football (CAF) Elite ‘A’ Women’s Course scheduled to take place in Acra Ghana. According to the delighted Kwimbira, the course will run from October 17 to 21 2018. The participating referees are expected to undertake technical tests, theory and physical practice. But […]
Mzuzu-based FIFA assistant referees, Clement Kanduku and Jonazio Luwizi, have said it is something else to officiate at CAF games away from home as spectators and football officials respect their decisions warmly as they build confidence and learn a number of things in their career as match officials. The two were speaking to Nyasa Times […]