Kinnah Phiri

Kinnah Phiri
Personal information
Date of birth	30 October 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth	Blantyre, Malawi
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1973–1981	Big Bullets
1982–1984	Manzini Wanderers
International career
1973–1981	Malawi
Managerial career
2004–2005	Big Bullets
2006–2007	Malawi (caretaker)
2007–2008	Free State Stars
2008–2013	Malawi
2014	Free State Stars
2014–2015	Free State Stars
2017	Mochudi Centre Chiefs
2017–2020	Jwaneng Galaxy
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kinnah Phiri (born 30 October 1954) is a Malawian football coach and former player who most recently coached Jwaneng Galaxy. He is the Deputy Director of Sports in the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

He is the all-time top goalscorer for the Malawi national team, having scored 71 goals in 117 games.^[2]

Playing career

Born in Blantyre, Kinnah began playing football for local side Big Bullets, and in 1982 was offered a contract by UAE club Sharjah SC. He was not allowed to leave the country, but he moved to Swaziland to play for Manzini Wanderers where he would finish his playing career.^[3]

Phiri was the inspiration behind the Malawi national team's finest hours in the late 1970s when Malawi twice won the East and Central Africa Challenge Cup. He scored 71 goals in 115 games.^[4]

In his club career, he stated that he had scored over 700 goals.^[5]

Coaching career

Bakili Bullets, Malawi (head coach)^{[citation needed]}
Free State Stars, South African Premier Soccer League (head coach)^{[citation needed]}
Malawi U23 (head coach)^{[citation needed]}
Malawi (head coach)^[6]

Career statistics

Scores and results list Malawi's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Phiri goal.

List of international goals scored by Kinnah Phiri
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Competition
1	20 January 1974	Curepipe, Mauritius	Mauritius	2–2	Friendly
2	6 July 1974	Blantyre, Malawi	Ivory Coast	5–1	Friendly
3	31 December 1974	Blantyre, Malawi	Tanzania	3–3	Friendly
4	31 December 1974	Blantyre, Malawi	Tanzania	3–3	Friendly
5	31 January 1975	Lilongwe, Malawi	Mauritius	1–1	Friendly
6	2 February 1975	Blantyre, Malawi	Mauritius	3–0	Friendly
7	23 February 1975	Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania	Tanzania	1–3	Friendly
8	27 February 1975	Zanzibar, Tanzania	Zanzibar	7–2	Friendly
9
10
11
12	29 March 1975	Blantyre, Malawi	Zambia	1–6	1976 African Cup of Nations qualification
13	13 April 1975	Lusaka, Zambia	Zambia	3–3	1976 African Cup of Nations qualification
14	13 April 1975	Lusaka, Zambia	Zambia	3–3	1976 African Cup of Nations qualification
15	10 July 1975	Lilongwe, Malawi	Kenya	3–1	Friendly
16	10 July 1975	Lilongwe, Malawi	Kenya	3–1	Friendly
17	31 August 1975	Blantyre, Malawi	Zambia	1–1	Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics
18	1 November 1975	Ndola, Zambia	Tanzania	3–1	1975 CECAFA Cup
19
20
21	7 November 1975	Chingola, Zambia	Uganda	2–1	1975 CECAFA Cup
22	9 November 1975	Lusaka, Zambia	Kenya	2–2	1975 CECAFA Cup
23	28 February 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Lesotho	4–1	Friendly
24	6 July 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Kenya	3–0	Friendly
25	7 July 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Sierra Leone	4–2	Friendly
26	4 September 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Uganda	1–1	Friendly
27	13 September 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Botswana	7–1	Friendly
28
29
30
31	15 September 1976	Lilongwe, Malawi	Botswana	3–0	Friendly
32	15 September 1976	Lilongwe, Malawi	Botswana	3–0	Friendly
33	24 October 1976	Blantyre, Malawi	Mauritius	1–1	1978 African Cup of Nations qualification
34	31 October 1976	Curepipe, Mauritius	Mauritius	2–3	1978 African Cup of Nations qualification
35	9 November 1976	Zanzibar, Tanzania	Kenya	2–2	1976 CECAFA Cup
36	27 March 1977	Lusaka, Zambia	Zambia	1–8	Friendly
37	30 September 1977	Gaborone, Botswana	Botswana	2–0	Friendly
38	1 October 1977	Gaborone, Botswana	Botswana	5–1	Friendly
39
40
41
42
43	11 November 1977	Lilongwe, Malawi	Lesotho	3–0	Friendly
44	13 November 1977	Blantyre, Malawi	Lesotho	6–1	Friendly Friendly
45	29 November 1977	Mogadishu, Somalia	Zambia	1–0	1977 CECAFA Cup
46	8 December 1977	Mogadishu Somalia	Kenya	2–1	1977 CECAFA Cup
47	12 December 1977	Nairobi, Kenya	Kenya	1–1	Jamburi Cup
48	18 June 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Zambia	1–2	Friendly
49	6 July 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Sierra Leone	5–0	Friendly
50	6 July 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Sierra Leone	5–0	Friendly
51	18 July 1978	Alger, Algeria	Egypt	1–4	Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games
52	25 July 1978	Alger, Algeria	Nigeria	2–3	Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games
53	25 July 1978	Alger, Algeria	Nigeria	2–3	Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games
54	22 October 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Algeria	1–1	Friendly
55	24 October 1978	Lilongwe, Malawi	Algeria	2–1	Friendly
56	24 October 1978	Lilongwe, Malawi	Algeria	2–1	Friendly
57	5 November 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Somalia	3–1	1978 CECAFA Cup
58	11 November 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Zambia	2–1	1978 CECAFA Cup
59	17 November 1978	Lilongwe, Malawi	Kenya	2–0	1978 CECAFA Cup
60	19 November 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Zambia	3–2	1978 CECAFA Cup
61	3 December 1978	Antananarivo, Madagascar	Madagascar	1–2	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
62	17 December 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Madagascar	5–1	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
63	17 December 1978	Blantyre, Malawi	Madagascar	5–1	1978 FIFA World Cup qualification
64	6 July 1979	Blantyre, Malawi	Kenya	1–0	Friendly
65	25 August 1979	Maseru, Lesotho	Lesotho	3–0	Friendly
66	25 August 1979	Maseru, Lesotho	Lesotho	3–0	Friendly
67	7 November 1979	Mombasa, Kenya	Sudan	4–0	1979 CECAFA Cup
68	18 April 1981	Gweru, Zimbabwe	Botswana	5–2	Friendly
69	18 April 1981	Gweru, Zimbabwe	Botswana	5–2	Friendly
70	19 June 1981	Blantyre, Malawi	Tanzania	4–1	Friendly
71	21 June 1981	Lilongwe, Malawi	Tanzania	3–1	Friendly