Malawi has submitted a new video to CAF in an attempt to overturn the decision to ban Bingu National Stadium.
Malawi is now without a certified stadium after CAF last week blacklisted Bingu National Stadium and 25 more from other nations.
This meant the Flames of Malawi played their World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifier matches away from home.
The move has also affected FCB Nyasa Big Bullets scheduled to host Red Arrows of Zambia next month in the CAF Champions League preliminary round.
“CAF used old pictures to ban Bingu Stadium.”
According to a spokesman for the ministry of sports, MacMillan Mwale, the government and the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) have submitted updated videos showing the stadium’s current condition.
Mwale said CAF decided to look at old pictures. “These pictures were taken when the stadium hosted Kenya’s match against Ivory Coast. We have worked in all the gaps which they told us.”
“Yes, I can confirm that we have submitted fresh images and I believe they will give us a response so that the stadium should host matches next month,” he said.
Some of the areas that CAF was not comfortable with about the stadium were the benches and Mwale said the gap has been fixed.
“There was also a concern about the pitch, we have addressed that area, and it is our hope that CAF will give us a green light to host matches. If they want to come physically, we will be happy with that also,” he said.
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Sudan, South Sudan, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Niger, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central Africa, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, and Lesotho are among nations lacking a qualifying stadium.
