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Club officials have hailed Super League of Malawi (Sulom) for running the Bakili Muluzi Super League (BMSL) first round in a systematic manner.
But the clubs have asked the Super League administration body to improve on a few areas like fixtures, security and the general administration of the league.
MTL Wanderers chairman Humphrey Mvula said he had noticed a lot of improvements in the league’s general administration compared to the previous years.
“The executive has done well. The fixtures committee has also done a good job because we did not have regular postponements of games.
“But the area that they may not have done well is where they did not call for a meeting of all clubs to look at the rules and regulations and general administration of the league. They went ahead to elect sub committees without involving stakeholders. Some of the membership in the subcommittees is not good enough.
“We have not seen any improvement in gate collections. Clubs continue getting peanuts from gate collections. We have also seen that some referees are still favouring certain teams. They are out to punish some teams and a good example is what our team went through on Sunday when we had two clear goals disallowed,” said Mvula.
Blue Eagles team manager Elijah Kachikuwo said Sulom had done its best to ensure the league was run properly.
“I think we should thank Sulom. They have tried hard to ensure the league was free of controversy. No team has gone to court this time and there haven’t been any serious squabbles.
But Kachikuwo advised Sulom on fixtures, saying: “They came up with a set of fixtures for the whole first round but later on started changing. This affected teams’ plans. We hope in the next round they will respect all the fixtures.
“We were also affected by the staging of many games in the same (area) at the same time. We could have Silver playing at Silver Stadium, Blue Eagles playing at Nankhaka and Civo fulfilling a fixture at Civo Stadium at the same time. This was affecting our revenue collection”.
Bullets secretary Ophman Kondowe also congratulated the Sulom for doing well: “Generally, the administration has been good. There have been some improvements in officiation though we have seen some few cases of incompetent refereeing,” said Kondowe.
He added: “But what was of concern was the nature of some fixtures. We were made to play two games in Lilongwe and travel to the North to fulfill two other fixtures within one week. We also got fixtures showing that we would be at home against Wanderers but this later changed as Wanderers played at home,” said Kondowe.
Civo’s treasurer Victor Lungu said he did not notice much problems in the administration of the league.
“I think there is some maturity coming up though there is need for improvement in officiation. Our team has suffered a lot in this field but in the other areas we don’t have anything to complain about,” said Lungu.
Silver’s chairman Wilson Banda said he had noticed big improvements compared to the previous seasons.
“The general administration has been better and as Silver Strikers we have not encountered any problems to do with the running of the league,” said Banda.
Sulom’s chairman Henry Chibowa said: “From the reports we have been getting, clubs have been satisfied with the administration of the league. But we cannot be 100 percent perfect.
“There were cases where we have to adjust fixtures after consultations with club officials. For example, the dates we got from Bullets for their Caf game against Villa were not the dates that we found on the Internet. We had to make the necessary inquiries and come up with proper adjustments”.
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