By Edwin Mbewe

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi’s second tier Centre football governing body (CRFA) has expelled Chatoloma ADMARC which plays in the Chipiku Stores Premier Division League due to the failure to fulfill its fixtures in the league.

The Kasungu North based outfit, Chatoloma as per the body failed to honor three fixtures two away and one home without providing conducive reasons to the body.

The fixtures which Chatoloma failed to fulfill include against LUANAR away in Lilongwe which was scheduled to take place on 12th November 2025, another away fixture against Airborne Rangers on which was set to take place on 20th November and home match which the team was anticipated to play against Armour Battalion on 23rd November.

General Secretary for Central Region Football Association (CRFA), Antonio Manda, said in the charge sheet released on 24th November 2025, that despite several formal communication and adequate notice, the club failed to honour official league matches without providing any justification.

He stated, “This behavior disrupts the league’s integrity, causes logistical challenges which results in financial loss for the association, particularly in the deployment of the officials. Effective immediately Chatoloma is removed from the league.

Manda added that the team is also barred from participating in any competition under its body for the maximum of five seasons (years).

“CRFA remains committed to enforcing discipline, upholding professionalism and safeguarding the credibility of all completions under our jurisdiction. No team or individuals will be allowed to compromise the standard of the game”, Manda added.

Chatoloma ADMARC general secretary Moses Botha confirmed to have received the charge sheet who said they have to sit down and evaluate the charge to map the way forward of the team.

“Indeed our team has been going through financial cris hence we struggled to look after the players welfare, logistics when playing away, this led us to fail to fulfill the fixtures.

“Its very painful that we have been expelled from the league, the team put Chatoloma on the map by nurturing the talent.If the community can join hands to support the team we can try to reason with CRFA to assist us completing the league”, Botha said.

Chatoloma ADMARC are sitting second from the bottom in the 16 member log table.

The team has 16 points from 20 games, they managed to win only three games, drawn 7 and registered 10 losses, scoring 16 goals and conceded 34 with a goal difference of -18.

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