FDH Bank is today set to unveil increased sponsorship packages for the 2020 edition of Zomba, Lilongwe and Mzuzu Mayor’s Trophy tournaments during a cocktail at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe. The bank’s marketing manager Ronald Chimchere said they are excited to continue supporting youth sports development that benefits football and netball teams in…
Nyasa Big Bullets and coach Callisto Pasuwa have reached an agreement over some clauses in his contract and the Zimbabwean mentor has committed to a one-year deal. Pasuwa’s local representative Felix Ngamanya Sapao on Tuesday confirmed that the two parties have finally struck a deal. Among other clauses, Bullets wanted to tie the Zimbabwe national…
Be Forward Wanderers FC annual revenue from matches and other channels, excluding sponsorship money, has dropped by K81 million, representing about 56.3 percent slump. In his financial report presented during the club’s executive committee elections in Blantyre on Sunday, immediate-past treasurer Robert Mbedza said the Nomads collected K63 million in the 2019 season compared to…
Barely a day after Be Forward Wanderers main executive committee elections held on Sunday, one of the club’s treasurer position contestants Dave Pemba has pulled out. In a letter dated February 10 2020, addressed to the club’s board of trustees, executive and supporters committees, Pemba said: “I have opted to be a mere executive member…
Karonga United FC has rejected the resignation of its chairperson Alufeyo Chipanga, on the basis that his decision would destabilise the club’s preparations for the new season. Chipanga announced his resignation during an executive committee meeting at Karonga club house on Wednesday, citing personal reasons. However, the club’s general secretary Ramzy Simwaka yesterday said they…
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) says dates for the second edition of Rough Diamonds Football Tournament will be set once the new FAM sub-committees are put in place to review last year’s inaugural event. FAM competitions and communications director Gomezgani Zakazaka said this yesterday after being asked what is delaying the event, considering that the…
Ex-BB Stars, a social football team comprising former Nyasa Big Bullets players, generated 11 percent of their targeted K1.3 million from their fundraising match against Southern Region (SR) Socials at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre on Saturday. With entry fee at K500, about 300 football lovers turned up as the Bullets veterans made a total of…
Nyasa Big Bullets FC Magazine, launched on Friday at College of Medicine (CoM) Sports Complex in Blantyre, generated K3.2 million through auction. HTD Limited was the highest bidder, buying the first copy at K570 000. Surendra Prasad, a technician of the club’s sponsors Nyasa Manufacturing Company Limited, was the second highest bidder with K550 000.…
TNM Super League clubs have complained of Super League of Malawi’s (Sulom) delay to give them their broadcasting rights revenue share for the 2019 season. As per the agreement, each of the 16 top-flight league teams was expected to get its broadcast rights dues at the end of the season, a month ago. Some of…
Malawi’s China-bound women’s football export Temwa Chawinga has topped the list of potential African women football stars in the 2020 season by the world’s largest online football publication Goal.com. The international association football news website has described the 21-year-old national women football team forward as an emerging Malawian that teams on the continent will look…
TNM Super League champions Nyasa Big Bullets FC Friday night capped their successful title defence with a domination of individual and team accolades during an awards gala at Sunbird Mount Soche in Blantyre. The People’s Team won half of the six individual awards and two of the five team honours apart from being decorated with…
Orlando Pirates new coach Josef Zinnbauer has for the first time waxed lyrical on Malawian striker Frank Gabadinho Mhango’s awesome form in the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL). Ahead of the Buccaneers encounter against Highlands Park yesterday at Orlando Stadium, Sowetan Live quoted him as saying he is thrilled by the 27-year-old’s form and…
Malawi Under-20 women football national team yesterday banked on a late equaliser against Zimbabwe in an intriguing Under-20 World Cup preliminary round qualifier first-leg to keep their qualifying dreams alive. A fantastic finish by substitute Yamikani Mhango three minutes to time at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre was enough for the Young Scorchers to cancel out…
Malawi Under-20 women national football team coach Maggie Chombo-Sadiki and captain Zainab Kapanda have said they are ready to face the Young Warriors of Zimbabwe in this afternoon’s Under-20 World Cup preliminary round qualifier at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. Chombo-Sadiki and Kapanda yesterday said they have left no stone unturned in a bid to get …
Former Nyasa Big Bullets players on Wednesday elected Isaac Msuku as committee chairperson of their newly-formed social football team dubbed Ex-BB Stars. The former People’s Team midfielder took the hot-seat unopposed during polls at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, after the outfit lost 1-2 to Mudi Socials in their second match. They beat Southern Region (SR)…
A month after Football Association of Malawi (FAM) first vice-president James Mwenda lost to the association’s incumbent president Walter Nyamilandu in FAM elections, he and a few other officials have been removed from the list of CAF match commissioners for 2020 and 2021. Mwenda has been replaced by Southern Region Football Association (SRFA) chairperson Raphael…
Under-20 women’s football national team coach Maggie Chombo-Sadiki is today expected to drop 15 out of the 40 players in camp. This comes barely three days after camping for next week’s Under-20 World Cup preliminary round qualifiers against Zimbabwe. The former national team captain yesterday said the trimming of the squad to 25 players aims…
Sulom has said it will only release the gate revenue report for the 2019 season at its annual general meeting (AGM) in March after an audit. Super League of Malawi (Sulom) treasurer Malinda Chinyama said the decision was made to avoid making mistakes that might come back to haunt the top-flight league runners in the…
The Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) has approved Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) proposal to hire full-time coach for Malawi Queens. For the past four years, MNCS had been turning down NAM’s request on the basis that the association could not provide documented and outlined scope of work for the coach, who is supposed…
The year 2019 has concluded silently with FDH Bank as a major blessing to Malawi’s sports world with record sponsorship deals. Previously, a number of companies and organisations made headlines for coming up with sports sponsorship, but it is the name of the home-grown bank that reverberated across the country for having a major impact.…
