By Alex Kachingwe

Blantyre, July 4, Mana: Sports analyst and journalist, Frank Kandu, has expressed the need for Super League teams to start considering football as a business and seek to operate as companies as a major way of earning more profits.

Kandu told Malawi News Agency (MANA) on Thursday that when football teams operate as companies they start to see football as an entrepreneurship in such a way that they start looking for ways on how to generate profits like selling replica jerseys and getting into partnerships with various sponsors.

“In our elite league most of the teams rely on gate collections to boost their finances, but when they operate as companies they are encouraged to find means of generating revenue to survive in the league,” he said.

Kandu said taking football as business and operating as a company would create the possibility to promote football in Malawi as teams would be able to produce talented football players who are later exported to international clubs.

He cited an example of Nyasa Big Bullets, Mighty Ekhaya Wanderers and Silver Strikers who usually export more players.

Kandu observed that teams which operate as companies have higher opportunities to attract sponsors than those operating as mere football clubs.

Super League of Malawi (Sulom) General Secretary, Williams Banda, said when teams consider football as business and register as companies, they begin running in a professional way.

“In our elite TNM Super League, most of the teams are now operating as companies, strictly considering football as a serious business,” Banda said.