{"id":51792,"date":"2023-11-04T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:10:00","slug":"malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2","title":{"rendered":"Malawi won\u2019t participate in CHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced that the Malawi National Football Team will not participate in the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN), whose qualifiers start next month due to financial constraints. The announcement was made by the association on Wednesday through its official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFAM regrets to advise that it has not registered the Malawi Men\u2019s National Football team, The Flames in the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN), whose qualifiers start next month due to financial constraints,\u201d reads part of the statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the country\u2019s soccer governing body, the decision was made as a result of a congested period where the national teams will participate in various activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program of our various national teams is crammed due to a series of international tournaments that will see the Flames participating in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers and fulfilling its last 2023 AFCON qualifier against Guinea next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, the Women\u2019s National team is also expected to participate in the COSAFA Women\u2019s Championship in September, yet we do not have any secure funding for this program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, we have decided to forego the CHAN tournament in order to manage the financial pressure that has taken its toll,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced that the Malawi National Football Team will not participate in the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN), whose qualifiers start next month due to financial constraints. The announcement was made by the association on Wednesday through its official Facebook page. \u201cFAM regrets to advise that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,371,125,844,234],"class_list":["post-51792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-football","tag-football-association-of-malawi-fam","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malawi won\u2019t participate in CHAN - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced that the Malawi National Football Team will not participate in the 20 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawi won\u2019t participate in CHAN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Football Association of Malawi (FAM) has announced that the Malawi National Football Team will not participate in the 20 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-04T17:55:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-04T18:10:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1699108679.570621.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawi won\u2019t participate in CHAN\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-04T17:55:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-04T18:10:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1699108679.570621.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"football\",\"Football Association of Malawi (FAM)\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-wont-participate-in-chan-2\",\"name\":\"Malawi won\u2019t participate in CHAN - 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