{"id":240488,"date":"2026-08-06T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-malawi-malawi-zambia-in-derby-battle-for-supremacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:53","slug":"zambia-malawi-malawi-zambia-in-derby-battle-for-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-malawi-malawi-zambia-in-derby-battle-for-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Malawi: Malawi, Zambia in Derby Battle for Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">When the draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 was completed, the Malawi versus Zambia matchup quickly gained popularity as one of the highly anticipated encounters of the continental competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">In downtoan Rabat at the Al Madina Stadium, debutants Malawi &#8211; the sensation of this edition, will face a seasoned Zambia side that must win to have any hope of finishing top of their group. With the Scorchers securing six points after two wins in as many matches, a draw would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 was completed, the Malawi versus Zambia matchup quickly gained popularity as one of the highly anticipated encounters of the continental competition. In downtoan Rabat at the Al Madina Stadium, debutants Malawi &#8211; the sensation of this edition, will face a seasoned Zambia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7887,8833,5028,257,254,29351,4709,881,25367],"class_list":["post-240488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-derby","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supremacy","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambiamalawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}