Mighty Mufulira Wanderers general secretary Mumba Mwila is confident the club can end its 30-year trophy drought within the next two years.
Mighty last won silverware in 1996 when they lifted the Super League title.
Financial challenges and demotions to Division One have characterised the club’s fortunes over the last 26 years.
In an interview with Kitwe journalist Mathews Kabamba, Mwila said Wanderers would target the Super League title next season.
“It’s been painful, especially for us who have been Mufulira Wanderers from birth. I was fairly young the last time Mighty won the league. The 30 years have been painful, and when you look back, we had no proper sponsorship. There was a time sponsorship stopped coming from the mine and it negatively affected everything,” Mwila said.
“We were almost going into extinction. There was a season when we faced demotion to Division Two on the final day and I think that would have been the end of Mighty Mufulira Wanderers. We also struggled for nine years in Division One and finally qualified for the Super League in 2014. From 2014 it has been in and out of the Super League,” he said.
Wanderers have won the league title nine times.
“Now we have stabilised and this gives us so much hope that we are able to fight for honours. The fans should not wait any longer. We will try and give it a go during the transition season. We have 18 games to play. If we start with a good pace, I think the fans would not have to wait any longer than a year or two,” Mwila said.
Meanwhile, Wanderers management is impressed with the performance of coach Lameck Banda and his bench. Banda joined Wanderers in June 2025.
“The performance of the technical bench is very good. The coach has done very well. He took us to the ABSA Cup after a long time. We expected this and more from coach Lameck Banda,” he said.
Mighty finished eighth in the 2024/25 season with 49 points from 34 matches.
“This season has been hot and cold. We pushed and played ABSA Cup, which was our target. I would rate our performance at 60 percent,” Mwila said.
Mighty eye end to 30-year trophy drought
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What has affected Mighty and most heavyweight soccer clubs in Zambia is the failure to adjust to business without ZCCM.
Teams had no business management skills and they couldn’t be faulted for only focusing on the football side of the trade. But now it’s 30 years later are there no Zambian entrepreneurs to exploit brands such as Mighty, Nkana, Magnificent for a very successful business venture? It’s a pity Zambian business people only know how to invest in taxis and bottle stores. We should be asking how Moise Katumbi did it in neighborhood Lubumbashi.
That privatization process in Zed was too narrowly focused they forgot about the football industry the mines were running.
However, now we should study how South African rugby runs its business more successfully than the more popular football business.
FAZ should adopt strategies from SARU and get government to facilitate certain commercial aspects of professional soccer. The industry is there it’s just waiting for a breakthrough entrepreneur to succesfully model for many others.
Is the new FAZ any better than Kamanga? Can we see a revolution that can bring happiness to Zedians who are in loadshedding trauma?