Malawian national soccer team
Nickname (s) | The Flames The flames |
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Association | Football Association of Malawi | ||
confederacy | CAF | ||
Head coach | Meke Mwase (since 2019) | ||
Record scorer | Kinnah Phiri (71) | ||
Record player | Young Chimodzi (159) | ||
Home stadium | Kamuzu Stadium | ||
FIFA code | MWI | ||
FIFA rank | 123. (1141 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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First international game Nyasaland 0:12 Ghana ( Malawi , October 15, 1962 )
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Biggest victories Malawi 8-1 Botswana ( Malawi ; July 13, 1968 ) Malawi 8-1 Djibouti ( Kamuzu-Stadio , Malawi ; May 31, 2008 )
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Biggest defeat Nyasaland 0:12 Ghana ( Malawi , October 15, 1962 )
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Successes in tournaments | |||
African Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 2 ( first : 1984 ) | ||
Best results | Preliminary round 1984 , 2010 | ||
(As of March 11, 2020) |
The Malawian national football team is subordinate to the Football Association of Malawi and represents the South African state of Malawi in football. The association has played international matches since the 1960s. Before 1966 there was the Nyassaland national team .
The team celebrated its greatest successes in the 1980s. Before taking part in the Africa Cup in 2010 , Malawi could only qualify for this competition in 1984 . In 1987 the Malawian national team won the bronze medal at the All-Africa Games in Kenya . The country has not yet qualified for a world championship.
The German Burkhard Ziese was Malawi's national coach from 2005 to 2006.
Tournaments
World Championship
1966 in England | not participated |
1970 in Mexico | not participated |
1974 in Germany | not participated |
1978 in Argentina | not qualified |
1982 in Spain | not qualified |
1986 in Mexico | not qualified |
1990 in Italy | not qualified |
1994 in the USA | withdrawn |
1998 in France | not qualified |
2002 in South Korea / Japan | not qualified |
2006 in Germany | not qualified |
2010 in South Africa | not qualified |
2014 in Brazil | not qualified |
2018 in Russia | not qualified |
In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil , Malawi met Nigeria , Kenya and Namibia . With a 2-0 defeat against their direct rivals Nigeria, Malawi missed out on a possible group victory and thus the qualification on the last day of the match. In the first leg, Malawi wrested a 1-1 draw from multiple World Cup participants and group favorites Nigeria in Blantyre . Malawi ended Group F with one win (1-0 in Namibia ), four draws and one defeat.
Four years later, Malawi missed qualifying in the first round against Tanzania . After a 2-0 defeat in the first leg, a 1-0 in front of the home crowd was not enough to move into the second round.
Africa championship
- 1962 to 1974 : did not participate
- 1976 : not qualified
- 1978 : not qualified
- 1980 : did not participate
- 1982 : not qualified
- 1984 : preliminary round
- 1986 : not qualified
- 1988 : did not participate
- 1990 : not qualified
- 1992 : did not participate
- 1994 to 2008 : not qualified
- 2010 : preliminary round
- 2012 to 2019 : not qualified
Malawi first qualified for an African Cup of Nations in 1984 , when only eight teams competed in the tournament in Ivory Coast . After a 3-0 defeat against Algeria , which took part in the World Cup in 1982 and 1986, the underdog won 2-2 in the second game against later finalists Nigeria . With a 0: 1 against Ghana , Malawi ended the group stage with 1: 5 points as bottom of the table and was eliminated from the tournament.
After 26 years, Malawi again took part in an African Championship in 2010. The team benefited from the fact that the continental elimination round for the World Cup in South Africa also served as the qualifying round for the Africa Cup. In the group matches of the third round, Malawi, third place behind the selection of Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso and a record of only four points and 4:11 goals, was enough to make it to the continental finals.
At the tournament in Angola , the team of the local coach Kinnah Phiri caused a big surprise: In the first group game, Malawi defeated Algeria, which had qualified for the World Cup, 3-0. One of the goalscorers was striker Russel Mwafulirwa , who at the time was under contract for the Swedish first division club IFK Norrköping and was one of only two players in the 23-man squad active in Europe. Malawi lost the second game against hosts Angola 2-0.
For Malawi to have reached the quarter-finals for the first time, a draw in the last group game would have been enough. However, the team lost 3-1 to Mali . After just three minutes, the Malawians were 2-0 down, a goal by Mwafulirwa did nothing to change the team's elimination.
African Nations Championship
South African Championship ( COSAFA Cup )
- 1997 : fifth
- 1998 : not qualified
- 1999 : not qualified
- 2000 : quarter-finals
- 2001 : semi-finals
- 2002 : second
- 2003 : second
- 2004 : quarter-finals
- 2005 : not qualified
- 2006 : not qualified
- 2007 : not qualified
- 2008 : not qualified
- 2009 : quarter-finals
- 2013 : seventh
- 2015 : fifth
- 2016 : preliminary round
- 2017 : preliminary round
- 2018 : preliminary round
- 2019 : quarter-finals
East / Central African Championship
- 1973 - did not participate
- 1974 - did not take part
- 1975 - second
- 1976 - semi-finals
- 1977 - third
- 1978 - East / Central African champion
- 1979 - East / Central African champion
- 1980 - third
- 1981 - preliminary round
- 1982 - preliminary round
- 1983 - fourth
- 1984 - second
- 1985 - third
- 1987 - did not qualify
- 1988 - East / Central African champion
- 1989 - second
- 1990 - preliminary round
- 1991 - preliminary round
- 1992 - fourth
- 1994 - did not participate
- 1995 - did not participate
- 1996 - did not participate
- 1999 - did not participate
- 2000 - did not participate
- 2001 - did not participate
- 2002 - did not participate
- 2003 - did not participate
- 2004 - did not participate
- 2005 - did not participate
- 2006 - quarter-finals
- 2007 - did not participate
- 2008 - did not participate
- 2009 - did not participate
- 2010 - quarter-finals
- 2011 - quarter-finals
- 2012 - quarter-finals
- 2013 - not invited
- 2015 - quarter-finals
- 2017 - not invited
- 2019 - not invited
Record player
(As of March 11, 2020)
Record player | ||||
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Games | player | position | Period | Gates |
159 | Young Chimodzi | Defense | 1979-1995 | 13 |
133 | Jack Chamangwana † | Defense | 1975-1985 | 10 |
129 | Lawrence Waya | attack | 1982-1996 | 28 |
126 | Harry Waya | ? | 1977-1987 | 8th |
117 | Kinna Phiri | attack | 1973-1981 | 71 |
112 | Gilbert Chirwa | ? | 1981-1993 | 4th |
110 | Jonathan Billie | ? | 1978-1987 | 8th |
104 | Joseph Kamwendo | midfield | 2003-2017 | 6th |
103 | Felix Nyirongo | ? | 1986-1997 | 2 |
102 | Peter Mponda | Defense | 1998-2011 | 2 |
Record shooters | |||
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Gates | player | Period | Games |
71 | Kinna Phiri | 1973-1981 | 117 |
28 | Lawrence Waya | 1982-1996 | 129 |
28 | Frank Sinalo | 1981-1989 | 75 |
23 | Stock dandize | 1977-1983 | 70 |
22nd | Essau Kanyenda | 1999-2015 | 72 |
22nd | Yasin Osman | 1966-1975 | 67 |
21st | Chiukepo Msowoya | 2006- | 81 |
18th | Peterkins Kayira | 1983-1989 | 68 |
17th | Barnet Gondwe | 1976-1981 | 66 |
15th | Spy Msiska | 1971-1979 | 58 |
Note: FIFA does not recognize games against Zanzibar and in qualifying for the Olympic football tournaments. Only Joseph Kamwendo with 102 and Peter Mponda with 100 games are in the FIFA hundreds of games.
- Source: Malawi - Record International Players (last updated on August 12, 2020)
Known players
- Striker Daniel Chitsulo is the only Malawian footballer who played in a German professional league. He played a total of 24 games in the 2nd Bundesliga for VfL Osnabrück and Rot Weiss Ahlen . He scored a goal. In his youth, Chitsulo played for 1. FC Cologne . He was not taken into account for the 2010 African Cup of Nations.
- Russel Mwafulirwa was active in Sweden for years. The attacker scored two goals in the 2010 African Championship, making it Malawi's top scorer.
- Defender Elvis Kafoteka was under contract in Hong Kong and Rwanda . He scored in 2010 in a surprising 3-0 win over Algeria.
- Defender Peter Mponda played in Canada and for a long time in South Africa . He was used in all three games over 90 minutes at the 2010 African Championship.
- Former international Kinnah Phiri led Malawi to the Africa Championship as a coach for the first time in 26 years.
- Striker Essau Kanyenda was in the 2003 final of the Russian Cup with FC Rostov . Later he was also under contract with Lokomotiv Moscow .
Trainer
- Jack Chamangwana (1998–1999)
- Young Chimodzi (1999-2000)
- Kim Splidsboel (2000-2001)
- Alan Gillett (2003) interim
- Edington Ng'onamo (2003-2004)
- John Kaputa (2004)
- Yassin Osman (2004-2005)
- Mike Hennigan (2005) interim
- Burkhard Ziese (2005-2006)
- Kinnah Phiri (2006-2007) interim
- Stephen Constantine (2007-2008)
- Kinnah Phiri (2008-2013)
- Edington Ng'onamo (2013)
- Tom Saintfiet (2013)
- Ernest Mtawali (2015-2016)
- Ramadhan Nsanzurwimo (2016-2017)
- Ronny Van Geneugden (2017-2019)
- Meke Mwase (2019–)
See also
- List of international matches for the Malawian national football team
- Malawian national football team (U-17 juniors)
Web links
- The Malawian national football team in the database of transfermarkt.de
- All of Malawi's results so far
- Website of the Malawian FA
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .