Gilbert Chirwa - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Malawian player, who obtained 112 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap   Date 	Venue        	Opponent       Score 	Competition

  1  23- 6-81	Nchalo  	Tanzania	0-0	
  2  22-10-83 	Dar-es-Salaam	Tanzania	1-1	
  3  24-10-83 	Dar-es-Salaam	Tanzania	0-0	
  4  26-10-83 	Zanzibar	Zanzibar	1-0	
  5  12- 2-84 	Blantyre	Zambia  	1-0	
  6  11- 3-84 	Bouaké  	Ghana   	0-1	African Nations Cup
  7  10- 7-84	Mzuzu   	Kenya   	2-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
  8  17-11-84	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe	3-0 	
  9  19-11-84 	Blantyre	Zimbabwe	1-0 	
 10   5-12-84 	Mbale   	Somalia 	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 11  21- 4-85 	Blantyre	Morocco 	0-0 	World Cup Qualifier
 12   2- 5-85	Harare  	Zimbabwe	3-1	
 13   6- 7-85	Blantyre	Tanzania	0-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 14   8- 7-85	Lilongwe	Tanzania	2-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 15  10- 7-85	Mzuzu   	Tanzania	0-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 16   4-10-85	Bulawayo	Uganda  	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 17   6-10-85	Bulawayo	Zambia  	2-2	CECAFA Cup
 18  10-10-85	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	0-1	CECAFA Cup
 19  12-10-85 	Bulawayo	Uganda  	3-1	CECAFA Cup
 20  21- 6-86	Blantyre	Zambia  	0-2	
 21  22- 6-86	Lilongwe	Zambia  	0-1	
 22   6- 7-86	Blantyre	Uganda  	2-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 23   8- 7-86	Lilongwe	Uganda  	0-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 24  10- 7-86	Mzuzu   	Uganda  	0-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 25  19- 7-86 	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe	1-1	African Games Qual.
 26   3- 8-86 	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 	1-1 [1]	African Games Qual.
 27  30- 9-86	Gabarone	Botswana	0-2	Botswana Cup
 28  16-11-86	Kigali  	Rwanda  	5-2	Olympic G. Qualifier
 29  30-11-86	Lilongwe	Rwanda  	3-0	Olympic G. Qualifier
 30   4- 1-87	Mbabane 	Swaziland	3-1	African Games Qual.
 31  18- 1-87	Lilongwe	Swaziland	6-1	African Games Qual.
 32   5- 4-87	Lusaka  	Zambia  	1-3	African Games Qual.
 33  18- 4-87	Blantyre	Zambia  	2-0	African Games Qual.
 34  13- 6-87	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe	1-4	
 35  14- 6-87 	Blantyre	Zimbabwe	2-1	
 36  17- 6-87	Lilongwe	Cameroon	1-1	Olympic G. Qualifier
 37   3- 7-87	Lilongwe	Ivory Coast	1-2	African Cup Qualifier
 38   6- 7-87 	Blantyre	Burundi 	1-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 39  12- 7-87	Yaoundé 	Cameroon	0-3	Olympic G. Qualifier
 40  19- 7-87	Abidjan 	Ivory Coast	0-2	African Cup Qualifier
 41   2- 9-87 	Nairobi 	Ivory Coast	0-1	African Games 
 42   4- 9-87 	Nairobi 	Senegal 	2-0	African Games 
 43   6- 9-87	Nairobi 	Egypt   	2-1	African Games 
 44   9- 9-87	Nairobi 	Kenya    	1-1 [2]	African Games 
 45  12- 9-87	Nairobi 	Cameroon	3-1	African Games 
 46   2-12-87	Tunis   	Tunisia 	3-2	
 47  13-12-87	Addis Ababa	Zimbabwe	1-1	CECAFA Cup
 48  22- 6-88	Maputo  	Mozambique	0-0	Mozambique Cup
 49   8- 7-88	Lilongwe	Zambia  	0-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 50  16- 7-88	Kampala 	Uganda  	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 51  30- 7-88	Lilongwe	Uganda  	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 52   3- 8-88	Ndola   	Zambia  	1-4	
 53   4- 8-88	Lusaka  	Zambia  	1-7	
 54  31- 8-88	Nairobi 	Kenya   	2-0	Kenya Cup
 55   2- 9-88	Nairobi 	Kenya   	0-1	Kenya Cup
 56  26- 9-88	Blantyre	Mozambique	1-1	
 57  28- 9-88	Lilongwe	Mozambique	1-0	
 58   6-11-88	Lilongwe	Tanzania	0-0	CECAFA Cup
 59  10-11-88	Lilongwe	Zanzibar	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 60  12-11-88 	Lilongwe	Kenya   	3-0	CECAFA Cup
 61  16-11-88 	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe 	0-0 [3]	CECAFA Cup
 62  17-11-88	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe	2-0	CECAFA Cup
 63  19-11-88	Blantyre	Zambia   	3-1 [4]	CECAFA Cup
 64   7- 1-89	Nairobi 	Kenya   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 65  21- 1-89	Lilongwe	Egypt   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 66  26- 3-89	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	1-1	
 67  28- 3-89	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	0-1	
 68   9- 4-89	Mbabane 	Swaziland	2-0	African Cup Qualifier
 69  23- 4-89	Blantyre	Swaziland	1-1	African Cup Qualifier
 70   3- 6-89	Lilongwe	Tunisia 	1-0	
 71  11- 6-89	Monrovia	Liberia 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 72  24- 6-89	Lilongwe	Kenya   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 73   6- 7-89	Blantyre	Gabon   	2-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 74  15- 7-89	Blantyre	Kenya   	2-3	African Cup Qualifier
 75  29- 7-89	Nairobi 	Kenya   	0-0	African Cup Qualifier
 76   5- 8-89	Tunis   	Tunisia 	0-3	
 77  12- 8-89	Cairo   	Egypt   	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 78  26- 8-89	Lilongwe	Liberia 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 79  10-12-89	Mombasa 	Zambia  	0-0	CECAFA Cup
 80  14-12-89	Nairobi 	Kenya   	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 81  16-12-89	Nairobi 	Uganda   	3-3 [5]	CECAFA Cup
 82  20- 1-90	Mbabane 	Tanzania	2-2	SADCC
 83  21- 1-90	Mbabane 	Botswana	2-2	SADCC
 84  23- 1-90	Mbabane 	Swaziland	0-0	SADCC
 85   6- 7-90	Blantyre	Tanzania	2-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 86   9- 7-90	Lilongwe	Tanzania	1-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 87  11- 7-90	Mzuzu   	Tanzania	0-0	Malawi Indep. Cup
 88   4- 8-90	Blantyre	Zaire   	1-0	
 89   6- 8-90	Lilongwe	Zaire   	1-0	
 90   8- 8-90	Mzuzu   	Zaire   	0-0	
 91  18- 8-90	Blantyre	Congo-Brazzav.	0-1	African Cup Qualifier
 92   9-12-90	Zanzibar	Zimbabwe	0-0	CECAFA Cup
 93  12-12-90	Zanzibar	Zanzibar	1-2	CECAFA Cup
 94  28- 4-91	Brazzaville	Congo-Brazzav.	1-2	African Cup Qualifier
 95   6- 7-91	Blantyre	Kenya   	0-2	Malawi Indep. Cup
 96   8- 7-91	Lilongwe	Kenya   	1-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 97  10- 7-91	Mzuzu   	Kenya   	1-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
 98  27- 7-91	Lilongwe	Zimbabwe	2-2	African Cup Qualifier
 99  17- 8-91	Nchalo  	Mozambique	1-0	
100  20- 8-91	Blantyre	Mozambique	2-0	
101  25-11-91	Mbale   	Zanzibar	1-0	CECAFA Cup
102  28-11-91	Mbale   	Kenya   	0-1	CECAFA Cup
103   1-12-91	Mbale   	Zambia  	0-0	CECAFA Cup
104  27- 3-93	Lilongwe	Zambia   	1-0 [6]	
105  11- 4-93	Rabat   	Morocco 	1-0	African Cup Qualifier
106  23- 4-93	Cairo   	Egypt   	0-2	African Cup Qualifier
107  22- 5-93	Nchanga  	Zambia  	1-1	
108  23- 5-93	Kitwe   	Zambia  	1-0	
109  25- 5-93	Lusaka  	Zambia  	2-4	
110   6- 7-93	Blantyre	Swaziland	3-1	Malawi Indep. Cup
111  11- 7-93	Bamako  	Mali    	1-2	African Cup Qualifier
112  25- 7-93	Blantyre	Morocco 	0-2	African Cup Qualifier

NB: In matches 41 and 50 Chirwa played as a substitute.

[1] Malawi won 2-1 on penalty kicks.
[2] Malawi lost 1-2 on penalty kicks.
[3] match abandoned at 107'
[4] after extra time.
[5] Malawi lost 1-2 on penalty kicks.
[6] match abandoned at 46.

NB: the Olympic Games Qualifier matches are not recognized as full A by FIFA, but they
    are for the Malawi FA; likewise, matches against Zanzibar are not recognized as full
    A by FIFA, but they are for the Malawi FA (Zanzibar is not a member of FIFA).


Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   112    43   39   30  126- 106     125       55.80

Types of Matches

Friendlies		30
CECAFA Cup		20
Malawi Independence Cup	17
African Cup Qualifier	13
World Cup Qualifier	 9
African Games Qualifier	 6
African Games		 5
Olympic Games Qualifier	 4
African Nations Cup	 1
Other Tournaments	 7
 
Total                  112

Goals:
Cap  51	1 goal
Cap  60	1 goal
Cap  74	1 goal
Cap 108	1 goal 

Total   4 goals


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Last updated: 12 Aug 2020

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