Kamwendo (right): Photo Credit: Mighty Mukuru Wanderers Media.
Malawi’s Castel Challenge Cup champions, Mighty Mukuru Wanderers, have started 2025 on a high after signing highly-rated striker Promise Kamwendo on a free transfer.
Kamwendo, among the TNM Super League’s leading scorers in the just-ended season, has joined Wanderers at the end of his contract with Dedza Dynamos FC.
Wanderers have released a statement confirming the capture of the forward who was at the centre of a transfer saga between them and cross-town Blantyre rivals FCB Nyasa Big Bullets.
“Striker Promise Kamwendo has this morning [Wednesday, 1st January 2025] penned a three-year deal with Mighty Mukuru Wanderers FC. The forward spent the last three seasons at Dedza Dynamos FC with 29 goals to his tally. He comes to Lali Lubani Road as a free agent,” the statement reads.
Kamwendo should have joined the Blantyre-based Wanderers in September 2024 but the disciplinary committee of the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) ordered him to join Dedza Dynamos after finding that Wanderers had signed him irregularly.
The striker had earlier agreed to sign for Wanderers rivals Bullets only to make a U-turn, prompting the latter to seek FAM’s intervention on how who owned the player.
Dedza were also fined for pocketing K3 million from Bullets and K4 million from Wanderers as part of the transfer transactions. FAM also ordered Kamwendo to refund K6 million signing-on fee he pocketed from Wanderers.
Kamwendo is seen as a replacement for Christopher Kumwendo who left Wanderers to sign for Zambian side mid-last season, Green Buffaloes on loan, leaving Wanderers without a trusted target man.
Wanderers have been unable to win the Super League title for over a decade and finished in second place behind champions, Silver Strikers, in the 2024 season.
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