2022 FIFA World Cup: Malawi’s Flames face Africans giants Cameroon, Ivory Coast

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi National Team, the Flames will start their 2022 FIFA World Cup group stage qualifiers with an away fixture against Cameroon between 5- 8 June 2021.

This follows CAF’s release of the full fixture for the Africa group stages which were shelved last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Flames are in Group D alongside Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Mozambique.

Malawi will then host Mozambique on match day 2 between 11 -14 June 2021.

Three months later the Flames will play Ivory Coast back-to-back starting at home between 1-4 September and away between 5-8 September.

Flames’ last home match will be against Cameroon between 6 -9 October 2021 and they will wind up the campaign away in Mozambique between 10 -12 October.

The winners of the 10 groups will qualify for the next round where they will face off to identify the five teams that will qualify for the World Cup to take place in Qatar next year.

The Flames have just qualified for AFCON 2020.

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According to Football Association of Malawi (FAM) the team will require about MK1.1 billion for both World Cup qualifiers and AFCON.

Lloyd M’bwana

I’m a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)’s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK’s ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.