Malawi National Football Team, the Flames, have been drawn in what seems a fair preliminary round group A of the 2017 Cosafa Castle Cup.<\/p>\n
The draw for the 20th edition of the cup took place last evening in Johannesburg, South Africa in front of high-profile figures such as Cosafa President, Paul Chiyangwa and South Africa Football Association boss, Danny Jordaan.<\/p>\n
Scheduled to run from June 25 to July 9 in South Africa\u2019s North-west Province, the Flames will battle it out against Angola, guests Tanzania and Mauritius.<\/p>\n
The overall winner will clinch a quarter-final berth against defending champions, Bafana Bafana, who were seeded based on their performance in the cup alongside Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, Zambia and Lesotho, www.cosafa.com <\/em>reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Seychelles and Mozambique are in group B.<\/p>\n Due to their poor performance in the competition, Malawi will begin the race from the preliminary round stage alongside lowest positioned Seychelles, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.<\/p>\n \u201cThe four quarterfinal winners carry on through the cup competition, while the losers enter the Plate tournament that Namibia won,\u201dwww.cosafa. com reported<\/em>.<\/p>\n The 2002 and 2003 finalists, Malawi has never won the cup and exited last year\u2019s competition from the group stage after losing 1-0 to Lesotho in a quarter-final play-off.<\/p>\n Full quarter-final draw <\/strong><\/p>\n Botswana vs Zambia<\/p>\n Namibia vs Lesotho<\/p>\n South Africa vs Winner Group A<\/p>\n Swaziland vs Winner Group B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi National Football Team, the Flames, have been drawn in what seems a fair preliminary round group A of the 2017 Cosafa Castle Cup. The draw for the 20th edition of the cup took place last evening in Johannesburg, South Africa in front of high-profile figures such as Cosafa President, Paul Chiyangwa and South Africa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46567,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564\/revisions\/46567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}