As Mwanza district host first ever top flight match.
Mighty Wanderers begin their title defence with an away trip as they travel to Mchinji to face Creck Sporting at Aubrey Dimba Stadium.
On Sunday they face a Creck Sporting side that drew against Red Lions in their opening match of the season.
Having lost a number of key players during the season, Sunday’s fixture will serve as a test for head coach Bob Mpinganjira to try and see which combinations would best work well this season.
The Nomads’ major changes would be their defence set-up the where highly rated Peter N’gambi who joined from Civil Service United to replace Lawrence Chaziya who left for Zimbabwe.
In attack, the Nomads also should brace themselves to start life without versatile winger Wisdom Mpinganjira who left for Mozambique.
As for Creck, head coach Eliah Kananji has a majority of the squad he assembled last season with the only notable departure being that of striker George Chaomba who joined FCB Nyasa Big Bullets.
Mighty Wanderers begin their title defence with an away trip as they travel to Mchinji to face Creck Sporting at Aubrey Dimba Stadium.
On Sunday they face a Creck Sporting side that drew against Red Lions in their opening match of the season on Sunday.
Having lost a number of key players during the season, Sunday’s fixture will serve as a test for head coach Bob Mpinganjira to try and see which combinations would best work well this season.
The Nomads’ major changes would be their defence set-up where the highly rated Peter Ng’ambi joined from Civo United to replace Lawrence who left for Zimbabwe.
In attack, the Nomads also should brace themselves to start life without versatile winger Wisdom Mpinganjira who left for Mozambique.
As for Creck, head coach Eliah Kananji has a majority of the squad he assembled last with the only notable departure being that of striker George Chaomba who joined FCB Nyasa Big Bullets.
In Mwanza, all roads will lead to the Joyce Chitsulo stadium as history is set to be made this Sunday as the district is set to host its first ever elite league match with Blantyre giants welcoming Mafco FC at the newly constructed facility.
It promises to be a match that will pull a record crowd with football fans in the district eagerly await to have a glimpse of top flight football for the first time.
Bullets come into the match straight from a 2-2 draw away to Civil and coach Gilbert Chirwa will be hoping that his boys recover from that hard fought draw and claim maximum points over Mafco who also drew their opening match 1-1 against Luanar Mitundu.
But before Sunday’s action, Lilongwe giants Silver Strikers who currently lead the log table will face Moyale Barracks at home.
The Bankers kicked off their campaign in style with a comfortable 2-0 away victory against Kamuzu Barracks.
On Saturday they return to action another military side Moyale Barracks who drew 0-0 at home against Goshen City Dedza Dynamos.
In Saturday’s other fixtures, Ekhaya FC straight from their opening week defeat to Blue Eagles will welcome Red Lions at Mpira Stadium while Luanar Mitundu play host to Kamuzu Barracks at Dedza Stadium.
In Saturday’s final fixture, Chitipa United will be hoping to recover from last Sunday’s 1-0 away defeat to Masters Security as they host Blue Eagles.
So, match week one produced 14 goals in 7 games averaging 2 goals per game.
Civil vs Bullets was the weekend’s highest scoring match as it produced four goals alone.
Now with one more fixture added to the menu, there is excitement among football fans that this weekend will produce more goals building on last weekend’s momentum.
