Introduction
The FDH Bank Cup is a National Knockout Cup organised by the Football Association of Malawi (FAM). It is sponsored by FDH Bank. The 2025 Edition will be played for five months between July and November 2025.
The 2025 FDH Bank Cup National draw will be held on Thursday, 31st July 2025 at the Mpira Village from 10 am. It will attract 32 teams with 16 coming from the Super League and the other 16 from the Four Regional Leagues and National Division League
The Regional preliminary round is almost complete, and a total 63 teams; 12 National Division League teams and 51 Regional Leagues Premier Division teams (14 from the South, 12 from the Centre, 9 from Eastern Region and 16 from the North) took part in the Preliminaries. The Cup will be played on knockout basis.
The qualified teams for the National draw are as follows:
Super League:
Mighty Wanderers, FCB Nyasa Big Bullets, Silver Strikers, Blue Eagles, Ekhaya
FC, Karonga United, Civil Service United, Kamuzu Barracks, Creck Sporting,
MAFCO FC, Chitipa United, Dedza Dynamos, Moyale FC, Mighty Tigers, Mzuzu
City Hammers, Songwe Border
Regional Playoffs
South: The Boyz, FC Thondwe, Zingwangwa United, Bangwe All Stars Central Region: Mitundu Baptist, Mchinji Villa, FC Shire, Chatoloma Admarc.
Eastern Region: Red Lions, Prison United, Becks Academy.
Northern Region: Baka City, Chilumba Barracks, Sporting FC, Jenda United, M’mbelwa Warriors.
The Draw
The draw will start with the round of 32 whereby the top eight Super League teams as per the log table of Monday 28th July 2025 namely: Mighty Wanderers, FCB Nyasa Big Bullets, Silver Strikers, Blue Eagles, Ekhaya FC, Karonga United, Civil Service United, Kamuzu Barracks, will be seeded in the sense that they will not face each other.
They will be put in one pot and drawn against the other 24 teams (The remaining 8 Super League teams and the 16 Regional Leagues teams) in the other pot. However, during the draw involving the seeded teams there will be another draw to determine the home teams in the matches while the other draw the home team will be determined by the team drawn first.
In the round of 16, the winners of the of round of 32 matches will face each other to determine the eight teams to qualify for the quarterfinals. The teams will be paired based on their match numbers with the winner of match number 1 facing winner of match number 16 in that order up to the last match pairing winner match number 8 and winner match number 9. In this round the winners of matches 9-16 will be home teams in the fixtures.
The quarterfinals and semifinal draw will be done after the round of 16 on dates to be announced.
For further information please contact:
FAM Competitions Department
Email: competitions@fam.mw
Phone: 0999/888 436391
