By George Bulombola

Mzuzu, March 10, Mana: Preparations for Northern Region Top 5 Supper League Teams Bonanza are almost complete.

The five teams participating in the bonanza are Songwe Border United Football Club, Moyale Football Club popularly dubbed as the Lions of Kaning’ina Forest.

The others are Karonga United Football Club also called Ingwina Syamwakaronga on field of play and Chitipa United and Mzuzu City Hammers.

This was disclosed recently by the vice chairperson of the organizing committee of the bonanza, Paul Tembo during a press briefing on updates of the preparations in Mzuzu.

According to Tembo, in terms of resource mobilization, the committee is in discussion with banks, corporate bodies and individuals who love football to woe resource assistance towards the bonanza and that the committee will soon announce the partners.

“We therefore appeal through this resource mobilization drive, appeal to all those interested in football reach out and partner with us as we continue preparing for the bonanza which is scheduled to take place at Rumphi Stadium from 21-23 March, 2025.

The three days are enough to accommodate all the five teams and we expect that it will be an    intense kind of bonanza,” said Tembo.

Tembo then thanked the participating five teams for trusting the committee’s member with the task of mobilizing resources, planning and execution of the bonanza.

“The bonanza is very key as the teams will soon be going into Supper League of Malawi (SULOM), hence they need to prepare and test themselves, identify their shortfalls and understand how strong they are.

“We also have a new team by the name ‘Songwe Border FC’ that needs to access their level of preparation for them to survive and fare in the elite league for the first time,” he added.

He said that the aim of the committee is to avoid losing any team from the league and that if anything, the number of new teams joining the league should increase.

General Secretary for Mzuzu City Hammers, Benjamin Thole, stated that his team, the defending champions of the bonanza, is ready to defend the title.

“The bonanza will provide us with a platform through which the participating teams can prepare for the league hence it will be worthy to patronize and watch,” said Thole.