Vanessa Chikupira
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Limbikani Vanessa Chikupila[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 April 1996 | ||
| Position(s) | Forward[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Biik-Kazygurt club | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Blantyre Zero | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020– | Malawi | 4 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 October 2021.[2] | |||
Limbikani Vanessa Chikupira (sometimes Chikupila) (born 2 April 1996) is a Malawian footballer who has played as a forward for the Green Buffaloes team in Zambia and the Biik-Kazygurt club in Kazakhstan. She was a member of the Malawi women's national team in 2025.
Club career
[edit]Chikupira has played for Blantyre Zero in Malawi.[3]
On 2023 she was the leading goalscorer for FCB Nyasa Big Bullets.[4] At the end of the year she signed for the Green Buffaloes team in Zambia.[5]
After a year in Zambia she moved to the Biik-Kazygurt club in Kazakhstan women's top football league. She was accompanied by Bernadette Mkandawire who also joined the same club.[6]
International career
[edit]Chikupira capped for Malawi at senior level during two COSAFA Women's Championship editions (2020 and 2021).[2] She was chosen again for the 2022 Championships. She was one of five Nyasa Bullets players chosen the others were rookie Bernadette Mkandawire, Emily Jossam, Mary Chavinda and goalkeeper Martha Banda.[7]
She was one of the players who obtained a hat trick on a 17-0 friendly against the team from the Seychelles in September 2023.[4]
In February 2025 she flew back to Africa to join other players picked to play Zambia. She was one of seven players based abroad who were included in Lovemore Fazili's Zambia squad. Chimwemwe Madise and Sabina Thom are contracted to play in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Tabitha Chawinga and Rose Kabzere are in France. Bernadette Mkandawire was with Chikupira in Zambia and Temwa Chawinga joined them from America.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Activity Report 2015/2016". DocPlayer. Football Association of Malawi. p. 28. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Vanessa Chikupira". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ Kambuwe, Mabvuto (14 July 2021). "Golden Boot race heats up in women's league". The Times. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ a b Loka, Kimpho (26 September 2023). "Chikupira shines for Scorchers in international friendly - FCB Nyasa Big Bullets FC". Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ "Malawi women's footballer joins Zambian club - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. 21 December 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ Manda, Solomon (31 December 2024). "Scorchers duo clinches deals". Nation Online. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ Loka, Kimpho (29 August 2022). "Five Bullets players in Scorchers final squad for Cosafa Women's Championship - FCB Nyasa Big Bullets FC". Retrieved 3 March 2025.
- ^ Chirwa, Garry (17 February 2025). "Temwa in, Fazili names final squad". Nation Online. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
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