Bingu National Stadium

Ask anyone in Lilongwe why the stadium sits in Area 48 and the answer is simple: So Bingu National Stadium went up from bare ground, built between July 2012 and January 2017 by the Chinese firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group to a design from the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, paid for through a 2007 agreement with China's Exim Bank worth 70 million US dollars. It opened on 28 January 2017 with a friendly against Guangzhou Evergrande, who were held 2-2 by a Malawi youth team.

The pitch is natural bermuda grass, and the ground was built for 41,100. That number stopped being the real figure on 6 July 2017, when a crush at the stadium killed eight people. Capacity was pulled down to 30,000 in response, and FIFA later set a working limit of 31,680, conditional on a two-hour entry window. The single biggest crowd since then came in 2025, when 39,000 packed in for the Airtel Top 8 final between FCB Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers.

Silver Strikers and Mighty Wanderers both call it home alongside the national team, though the relationship with the CAF has been uneven — international club fixtures were suspended there in October 2025 over infrastructure concerns. Football aside, the stadium has carried Malawi's public life at large moments: Lazarus Chakwera's presidential inauguration in July 2020, a 300-bed field hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021, and the country's first Paralympic Games in July 2023.