Founded | 2020 |
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Country | Malawi |
Confederation | CAF |
Number of teams | 24 |
Relegation to | W-League D2 |
Domestic cup(s) | W-Presidential Cup |
International cup(s) | CAF W-Champions League |
Current champions | Blantyre Zero (1st title) (2021–22) |
Most championships | Blantyre Zero ,DD Sunshine (1 title) |
Current: 2022-23 W-League |
The Malawi Women's League called also Elite Women's League is the top flight of women's association football in Malawi. The competition is run by the National Women's Football Association which is a member association of the Football Association of Malawi.
Women's football was founded in 1998 in Blantyre. It was formed on first, a Blantyre Women's District League which later had becomes a Blantyre Women's Regional League and layer introduced in other regions. [1] On 2020 was started the first Malawi women's League which is composed of three regions of height teams each who will split into Regional and National phases. [2] [3]
Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants as of 2018. It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is the capital of the country's Southern Region as well as the Blantyre District.
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Republic of Malawi – sovereign country located in southeastern Africa. Malawi is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the north and Mozambique, which surrounds it on the east, south and west and is separated from Malawi by Lake Malawi. The origin of the name Malawi is unclear; it is either derived from that of southern tribes, or from the "glitter of the sun rising across the lake". Malawi is a densely populated country with a democratically-elected, presidential system of government.
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