Tabitha Chawinga is a Malawian professional footballer and captain of the Malawi women’s national team whose career has moved through Sweden, China, Italy and France while repeatedly establishing new benchmarks for Malawian and African women’s football. In 2014, she became the first Malawian woman to sign for a European football club. She subsequently finished as a league top scorer eight times across four countries, became the first African woman to win the Serie A Femminile Golden Boot, was named the best player in both Italy and France, became the first Malawian footballer nominated for the Ballon d’Or, and joined OL Lyonnes, one of the most successful clubs in women’s football. In 2026, as Malawi’s captain, she led the Scorchers through their first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations appearance, into the final on debut, and to qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time.
The Malawian forward who became her country’s first woman to play professional football in Europe, won Golden Boots across four countries, and captained Malawi to its first WAFCON final and first FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification.
Category: Pioneer
Field: Football · Sport · Women’s Football · Athlete Development
At a Glance
Chawinga’s career demonstrates how professional mobility can compound. Her first move took her from a small women’s-football ecosystem in Malawi into Sweden’s third tier. Performance moved her into Sweden’s second division and then its top flight. Continued scoring opened China, followed by Italy and France. At each stage, the competitive level increased while her scoring output remained high enough to win individual honours. The pathway did not remain individual: she used her Swedish network to help her younger sister Temwa enter European football, later financed women’s teams in Malawi, supported players’ education, developed school-based initiatives for rural girls, and was selected for FIFA’s Player Impact Programme as she developed the TC11 Academy concept around football and education for girls.
| Born | May 22, 1996 · Rumphi District, Malawi |
| Country | Malawi |
| Field | Professional football, women’s football and athlete development |
| Position | Forward |
| Known For | Eight league Golden Boots across Sweden, China, Italy and France; captain of Malawi; first Malawian footballer nominated for the Ballon d’Or |
| Education | Schooling in Malawi, including St Dennis Primary School; left formal schooling when she moved to Sweden to pursue professional football |
| Major Clubs / Organizations | DD Sunshine; Krokom/Dvärsätts IF; Kvarnsvedens IK; Jiangsu Suning; Wuhan Jianghan University; Inter Milan; Paris Saint-Germain; OL Lyonnes; Malawi women’s national team; TC11 |
| Current Club | OL Lyonnes |
| First / Record / Milestone | First Malawian woman to sign for a European football club; first African woman to win the Serie A Femminile Golden Boot; first Malawian Ballon d’Or nominee |
| GDT Category | Pioneer |
OL Lyonnes lists Chawinga’s date of birth as May 22, 1996 and records 58 appearances and four titles with the club since she joined in 2024. Her contract, signed in July 2024, runs through June 30, 2027.
Why She’s a Girls Do That Champion
Tabitha Chawinga’s significance is not limited to the number of goals she has scored.
Her career changed the professional information available to Malawian girls.
Before 2014, no Malawian woman had established a professional club career in Europe.
After Chawinga moved to Sweden, that pathway existed.
Before a Malawian woman had succeeded in one of Europe’s major leagues, there was no domestic precedent for doing so.
Chawinga subsequently became the leading scorer in both Italy and France.
Before 2024, no Malawian footballer had appeared on a Ballon d’Or shortlist.
Chawinga finished 16th.
Before 2025, Malawi’s women had never qualified for WAFCON.
By 2026, Chawinga was captaining them in the tournament final and into their first FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The effect extended beyond representation.
When Kvarnsvedens needed another player after Tabitha’s success in Sweden, she recommended her younger sister Temwa. The club initially resisted the suggestion that Malawi could produce another player of similar quality. Tabitha pushed for the trial. Temwa was signed.
That intervention mattered well beyond one transfer. Temwa subsequently became one of the leading forwards in world football.
Tabitha therefore did not simply establish a pathway out of Malawi.
She demonstrated that the pathway could be replicated.
Her later investments address another part of the system: ensuring that girls inside Malawi have teams, school support, equipment, development opportunities and visible routes through which talent can progress.
For Girls Do That, this is the distinction between being first and creating succession.
Her Story
Rumphi: Talent Before Infrastructure
Tabitha Chawinga grew up in Rumphi District in northern Malawi.
Football began when she was approximately six or seven years old. There was little formal infrastructure around her participation. She played with boys and described using footballs made from plastic or paper.
The difficulty was not only material.
Her participation in football conflicted with expectations around girls.
Chawinga has described parents who initially wanted their children focused on school rather than sport, a household without substantial financial resources, and a mother who farmed while her father worked as a cleaner. She sold vegetables and sweets and took on small jobs for income.
Gender made the resistance more specific.
In later discussing her Believe in the Possibilities campaign, Chawinga described a rural environment in which sport was treated as an acceptable extension of boys’ lives while girls were expected to prioritise domestic work. Her own commitment to football brought criticism and punishment.
The structural problem was clear.
Talent existed.
The development pathway did not.
DD Sunshine: The First Development System
Chawinga’s first major step into organized women’s football came through DD Sunshine in Lilongwe.
FIFA records that she joined the club at approximately 13. The move created access to something village football could not provide: regular organized competition, coaching, visibility and contact with people connected to the wider game.
That distinction matters in player development.
Raw ability has limited economic value if there is no mechanism through which scouts, clubs and intermediaries can observe it.
DD Sunshine became that mechanism.
The club ultimately connected Chawinga to an opportunity in Sweden.
The move was not produced by an established Malawian export pipeline. It emerged from individual relationships, a foreign connection to the Swedish club Krokom/Dvärsätts IF and the willingness of people around DD Sunshine to advocate for a trial.
In 2014, the trial became a contract.
Chawinga became the first Malawian woman to sign for a European football club.
Sweden: The First Export
Chawinga joined Krokom/Dvärsätts IF in Sweden’s third tier.
Her first European season produced 39 goals and the league scoring title.
The following season, she moved to Kvarnsvedens IK in Sweden’s second division.
She scored 43 goals, again finishing as the league’s leading scorer and helping Kvarnsvedens win promotion.
She then proved that the production could survive another increase in competitive level.
In 2017, playing in Sweden’s top division, Chawinga scored 26 goals and finished as the league’s leading scorer.
The Swedish period established a pattern that would subsequently repeat across her career:
new country → higher competitive level → rapid adaptation → scoring title.
Eight Golden Boots Across Four Countries
Chawinga’s scoring record is unusual not simply because of its volume, but because it has reproduced across different leagues and football cultures.
| Season | Country | Club / Level | League Goals | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Sweden | Krokom/Dvärsätts IF · third tier | 39 | League top scorer |
| 2015 | Sweden | Kvarnsvedens IK · second tier | 43 | League top scorer |
| 2017 | Sweden | Kvarnsvedens IK · top flight | 26 | League top scorer |
| 2018 | China | Jiangsu Suning · top flight | 17 | Chinese Women’s Super League top scorer |
| 2019 | China | Jiangsu Suning · top flight | 12 | Chinese Women’s Super League top scorer |
| 2021 | China | Wuhan Jianghan University · top flight | 9 | Chinese Women’s Super League top scorer |
| 2022/23 | Italy | Inter Milan · Serie A Femminile | 23 | Serie A Golden Boot |
| 2023/24 | France | Paris Saint-Germain · Division 1 | 19 | French league top scorer |
The record amounts to eight league scoring titles across four countries: Sweden, China, Italy and France.
The sequence is also useful for evaluating adaptability.
The first three scoring titles came in three different levels of Swedish football.
Three came in China.
The final two came consecutively in two major European leagues.
The result was not one extraordinary season in one tactical environment.
It was sustained production across more than a decade of professional mobility.
China: Moving Into a Larger Professional Market
In 2018, Chawinga joined Jiangsu Suning in the Chinese Women’s Super League.
She scored 17 league goals in her first season, won the Golden Boot and was named the league’s Player of the Year.
In 2019, she repeated both awards, finishing as top scorer with 12 goals while Jiangsu won the league title as part of a major domestic trophy run.
The move to China represented another change in scale.
Sweden had provided the European entry point.
China provided a larger professional environment, stronger financial incentives and sustained top-flight competition.
By this stage, Chawinga was no longer primarily a Malawian prospect succeeding abroad.
She was becoming one of the leading African players in the international women’s game.
Reuniting With Temwa
Chawinga moved to Wuhan Jianghan University in 2021.
Her younger sister Temwa was already at the club.
Wuhan won the Chinese Women’s Super League, and Tabitha finished as the league’s top scorer with nine goals. It was her third Chinese top-flight Golden Boot.
The sisters’ presence at the same Chinese club represented the maturation of a pathway that had begun years earlier in Malawi.
Tabitha had left Malawi first.
Temwa followed her through DD Sunshine.
Tabitha entered Kvarnsvedens.
Temwa subsequently entered the same Swedish club.
Tabitha moved to China.
Temwa followed into the Chinese league.
By 2021, both were league champions together.
The Tabitha–Temwa Pathway
Temwa’s career is not reducible to her sister’s intervention. Her own performance established her at every subsequent stage.
But the mechanism through which the first international opportunity emerged is documented.
When Kvarnsvedens began looking for a replacement for Tabitha, she proposed Temwa.
The club initially resisted.
Tabitha recalled that the owner did not believe Malawi could produce another player comparable to her. She continued advocating for her sister until the club agreed to offer Temwa a trial.
Temwa was signed.
Temwa later described Tabitha as instrumental to her professional progression, both in creating overseas connections and in advising her about how to manage the demands of a football career.
The case demonstrates how migration networks operate in professional sport.
The first player absorbs substantial uncertainty:
visa process,
club expectations,
cultural adaptation,
contract structures,
professional standards,
training systems,
and the credibility problem associated with coming from a market scouts rarely monitor.
Once she succeeds, some of that information becomes available to the next person.
The pioneer creates more than visibility.
She creates market information.
Inter Milan: The Italian Breakthrough
After six years in China, Chawinga returned to European football in 2022 on a season-long loan to Inter Milan.
She scored immediately on her Serie A debut against Parma.
By the end of the 2022/23 league season, she had scored 23 goals.
The total placed her eight goals ahead of the nearest challengers and made her the first African woman to win the Serie A Femminile Golden Boot.
The Italian Footballers’ Association subsequently named her Women’s Player of the Year for the season.
The distinction was significant for two reasons.
First, Chawinga had returned to European club football after six years outside it and immediately led one of its major leagues in scoring.
Second, she had now won league scoring titles in Sweden, China and Italy.
CAF described her at the time as the only African woman to have won league Golden Boots in three countries abroad.
France was next.
Paris Saint-Germain: Best Player in France
Chawinga joined Paris Saint-Germain on loan for the 2023/24 season.
She entered a squad expected to compete simultaneously for the French title, domestic cup and UEFA Women’s Champions League.
The adjustment period was short.
She finished the French league season with 19 goals in 21 appearances, taking the scoring title.
She also became one of the league’s most productive creators. At the time the season awards were announced, PSG reported that she was leading the scoring race while tied for the league lead in assists with ten.
The French Football Federation named her D1 Arkema Player of the Season.
The UNFP players’ awards independently named her Division 1 Arkema Player of the Season.
She also won consecutive league Player of the Month awards in February and March 2024.
In one season, she had become both France’s leading scorer and its recognized best player.
Europe’s Champions League
The PSG season also gave Chawinga her first sustained campaign in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Across the campaign including qualifying, OL Lyon later recorded six goals in 12 appearances. In the main competition, UEFA’s end-of-season selection credited her with five goals and two assists.
PSG reached the semifinals.
Chawinga scored in the quarterfinal against BK Häcken and again during the semifinal tie with Lyon.
UEFA’s Technical Observer panel selected her in the 2023/24 Women’s Champions League Team of the Season alongside players including Aitana Bonmatí, Caroline Graham Hansen, Lindsey Horan and Kadidiatou Diani.
She also finished the season as a Coupe de France winner with PSG.
The progression from Swedish third-division football to UEFA’s Team of the Season had taken ten years.
The Ballon d’Or
In 2024, Chawinga was nominated for the Women’s Ballon d’Or.
She became the first Malawian footballer to receive a Ballon d’Or nomination.
She finished 16th in the world.
The nomination placed a Malawian player inside football’s most visible individual award process for the first time.
It also changed the international positioning of Malawian women’s football.
A country that had never qualified for WAFCON now had a player being evaluated among the leading women footballers in the world.
OL Lyonnes
On July 2, 2024, Chawinga signed a three-year contract with Olympique Lyonnais, now OL Lyonnes, running through June 30, 2027.
The move represented another change in competitive context.
Lyon is the most successful club in the history of the UEFA Women’s Champions League, with eight European titles.
At Inter and PSG, much of Chawinga’s recognition had been individual: leading scorer, best player, Team of the Season.
At Lyon, the next phase became increasingly tied to team trophies.
French Champion
In her first season with Lyon, Chawinga became a French league champion as the club defeated PSG 3–0 in the 2025 championship final.
The 2025/26 Domestic Treble
OL Lyonnes then completed a domestic treble in 2025/26.
The club won the inaugural LFFP Cup, defeating PSG 1–0 in the final.
It won the Coupe de France, again defeating PSG, this time 4–1.
And on May 29, 2026, Lyon defeated Paris FC 5–0 to secure the French championship.
Chawinga scored the first two goals of the title match, in the 11th and 17th minutes.
The three trophies meant that Chawinga had won four titles across her first two seasons with the club. OL Lyonnes’ current profile records 58 appearances and four titles since her arrival.
Another Champions League Final
OL Lyonnes also reached the 2026 UEFA Women’s Champions League final in Oslo.
Barcelona won the final 4–0.
For Chawinga, it nevertheless represented another step in competitive scale: from making her Champions League debut with PSG in 2023 to appearing with Lyon in the final of Europe’s premier women’s club competition less than three years later.
Club Career Pathway
| Period | Club | Country | Development |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early career | DD Sunshine | Malawi | Organized women’s football and domestic development pathway |
| 2014 | Krokom/Dvärsätts IF | Sweden | First Malawian woman to sign for a European club; league top scorer |
| 2015–2017 | Kvarnsvedens IK | Sweden | Promotion from second tier; later top-flight Golden Boot |
| 2018–2020 | Jiangsu Suning | China | Multiple Golden Boots, Player of the Year awards and domestic titles |
| 2021–2022 | Wuhan Jianghan University | China | League champion; 2021 Golden Boot |
| 2022/23 | Inter Milan | Italy | Serie A Golden Boot; AIC Women’s Player of the Year |
| 2023/24 | Paris Saint-Germain | France | French Golden Boot; Player of the Season; Coupe de France; Champions League Team of the Season |
| 2024–present | OL Lyonnes | France | Four club titles across first two seasons; 2026 Champions League finalist |
Captain of Malawi
Chawinga’s club career developed faster than Malawi’s national women’s football infrastructure.
For years, the Scorchers possessed internationally successful individual players without having appeared at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
That changed in 2025.
Malawi defeated Angola in the final qualifying round and secured its first-ever WAFCON qualification.
CAF’s official qualification record identifies Tabitha Chawinga as team captain.
The achievement created the first opportunity for the Chawinga generation to compete for Malawi at a major senior continental finals.
What followed substantially exceeded qualification.
WAFCON 2026: Debutants to Finalists
Malawi entered the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco as tournament debutants.
Their first match was against defending champions Nigeria, historically the dominant country in African women’s football.
Malawi won 3–2.
Temwa Chawinga scored Malawi’s first goal.
Tabitha scored the second.
Temwa scored the third.
Malawi followed the result with a 3–1 victory over Egypt.
They then lost 2–1 to Zambia, with Tabitha scoring Malawi’s goal, but still finished top of the group and advanced to the quarterfinals.
The debutants were now among Africa’s final eight.
The World Cup Match
In the quarterfinal, Malawi defeated Ghana 2–1.
The victory was larger than the immediate tournament result.
WAFCON also served as the qualification pathway for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
By reaching the semifinals, Malawi qualified for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027.
It was the first Women’s World Cup qualification in the country’s history.
The Semifinal
Malawi faced Algeria in the semifinal.
Tabitha scored twice.
Temwa scored once.
Malawi won 3–1 and advanced to the WAFCON final in its first appearance at the tournament.
The national-team captain who had spent more than a decade accumulating individual records abroad was now captaining Malawi into its first continental final.
The Final
Malawi faced Cameroon in the final.
Cameroon won 3–0.
Malawi finished as African runners-up on debut.
Tabitha ended the tournament with four goals: one against Nigeria, one against Zambia and two against Algeria.
CAF’s Technical Study Group selected her in the official WAFCON 2026 Team of the Tournament.
Temwa was also selected and won the tournament Golden Boot with five goals and two assists.
Between them, the Chawinga sisters scored nine goals during Malawi’s first WAFCON campaign.
But the larger outcome was institutional:
Malawi entered the tournament having never played at WAFCON.
It left as a continental silver medallist and a FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifier.
Beyond Individual Performance
Chawinga’s off-field work has increasingly focused on a problem she experienced personally:
Malawi can produce football talent without having enough systems to identify, finance and develop it.
Her response has taken several forms.
TC11 and Domestic Women’s Football
By 2021, Chawinga had been personally financing DD Sunshine, the club that helped establish her own career.
She was also funding TC11, a newer women’s team she had launched.
That year, she moved the support into a more formal structure through 11 Investments.
Instead of money being transferred informally from Chawinga to the teams, the company became responsible for their sponsorship and administration.
The distinction was deliberate.
Chawinga told The Nation that there had previously been no proper sponsorship system because the money came directly from her. Formalizing the relationship through the business was intended to create greater operational order.
At the time, 11 Investments expected to spend more than K11 million on the two teams during the season.
Chawinga was also paying school fees for some players.
This introduced two different forms of support:
football participation
and
educational continuity.
That pairing later became increasingly central to her development work.
Reinvesting in the Club That Produced Her
The sponsorship of DD Sunshine is particularly important.
Professional football systems frequently depend on training clubs that absorb development costs long before a player generates meaningful commercial value.
Chawinga’s career began inside that system.
Years later, her professional earnings were being reinvested into the same institution.
The sequence therefore became circular:
DD Sunshine develops Tabitha → Tabitha accesses international football → international football creates income and networks → Tabitha reinvests into DD Sunshine and other women players.
That is a different model from one-off charitable giving.
It is reinvestment into the production system.
Believe in the Possibilities
In 2023, Chawinga expanded her work into schools through Believe in the Possibilities.
The campaign was designed around rural girls and the relationship between education and sporting talent.
Its initial model combined:
school materials,
sports equipment,
school visits,
motivational engagement,
and revenue from TC11-branded products intended to support the programme.
The intervention was based directly on Chawinga’s own experience.
Her childhood problem had not been lack of interest.
It had been an environment in which a rural girl’s participation in sport was not treated as a legitimate development pathway.
The campaign attempted to change the information available to schools, parents and girls.
Returning to St Dennis
In July 2023, Chawinga and Standard Bank Malawi provided writing materials and footballs to St Dennis Primary School in Rumphi, her former school.
St Dennis was the third school reached by the initiative, following Mitawa Primary School in Phalombe and Mikombe Primary School in Thyolo.
The combination of writing materials and footballs was consistent with the programme’s design.
The intervention did not frame sport and education as competing investments.
It treated both as development inputs.
TC11 Academy
In 2025, FIFA selected Chawinga as one of 14 women footballers worldwide for the inaugural FIFA Player Impact Programme.
The programme provides participants with coaching, financial assistance and global promotion to develop player-led social-impact projects.
Programme coverage identified Chawinga’s project as:
TC11 Academy: Providing access to quality football and education for girls in Malawi.
The academy concept represents the logical next stage of her earlier interventions.
Sponsoring teams supports existing players.
School campaigns broaden awareness.
An academy can potentially create a recurring development pathway.
The model moves from:
individual sponsorship
to:
organized talent development.
What Changed Because She Went First
Tabitha Chawinga’s career can be evaluated through the systems that existed before and after her entry.
Professional Mobility
Before 2014: no Malawian woman had signed for a European football club.
After 2014: a documented pathway existed.
Within three years, Temwa Chawinga had followed that route to the same Swedish club.
International Market Credibility
Chawinga’s sustained scoring record in Sweden established evidence that talent from Malawi could perform abroad.
She subsequently won scoring titles in China, Italy and France.
By 2024, she was in UEFA’s Champions League Team of the Season.
Global Individual Recognition
Before 2024: Malawi had never produced a Ballon d’Or nominee.
In 2024: Chawinga finished 16th.
National-Team Performance
Before 2025: Malawi’s women had never qualified for WAFCON.
In 2025: they qualified with Chawinga as captain.
In 2026: they reached the final on debut.
In 2027: they will enter their first FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Domestic Development
Chawinga moved from personally helping individual players and teams to formal team sponsorship, school-based talent advocacy and an academy concept supported through FIFA’s Player Impact Programme.
The progression matters.
A pioneer can demonstrate possibility.
A development system can increase the number of people able to act on it.
Chawinga’s career increasingly contains both.
Milestones
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 1996 | Born May 22 in Malawi |
| Childhood | Begins playing football in Rumphi, frequently with boys and with improvised balls |
| c. 2009 | Joins DD Sunshine in Lilongwe |
| 2014 | Signs for Krokom/Dvärsätts IF in Sweden, becoming the first Malawian woman to sign for a European club |
| 2014 | Scores 39 goals and finishes as league top scorer |
| 2015 | Joins Kvarnsvedens IK; scores 43 goals, wins another scoring title and helps the club secure promotion |
| 2017 | Scores 26 goals and becomes top scorer in Sweden’s top flight |
| 2018 | Joins Jiangsu Suning in China; wins Chinese league Golden Boot with 17 goals and Player of the Year |
| 2019 | Wins another Chinese Golden Boot with 12 goals and a second Player of the Year award; Jiangsu wins the league |
| 2021 | Joins Wuhan Jianghan University; wins the Chinese league and her third Chinese Golden Boot with nine goals |
| 2021 | Formalizes support for DD Sunshine and TC11 through 11 Investments; also supports some players’ school fees |
| 2022 | Returns to Europe on loan to Inter Milan |
| 2023 | Scores 23 Serie A goals and becomes the first African woman to win the league Golden Boot |
| 2023 | Named AIC Women’s Player of the Year in Italy |
| 2023 | Develops the Believe in the Possibilities campaign for rural girls and schools |
| 2023 | Joins Paris Saint-Germain on loan |
| 2024 | Finishes as French league top scorer with 19 goals |
| 2024 | Named both D1 Arkema and UNFP Player of the Season |
| 2024 | Wins Coupe de France with PSG |
| 2024 | Named in UEFA Women’s Champions League Team of the Season |
| 2024 | Becomes the first Malawian Ballon d’Or nominee and finishes 16th |
| 2024 | Signs for Olympique Lyonnais through 2027 |
| 2025 | Wins the French championship with Lyon |
| 2025 | Captains Malawi to its first WAFCON qualification |
| 2025 | Selected for FIFA’s inaugural Player Impact Programme |
| 2026 | Wins the LFFP Cup, Coupe de France and French championship with OL Lyonnes |
| 2026 | Reaches the UEFA Women’s Champions League final with OL Lyonnes |
| 2026 | Captains Malawi at its first WAFCON |
| 2026 | Helps Malawi defeat defending champions Nigeria 3–2 in its first WAFCON match |
| 2026 | Malawi qualifies for its first FIFA Women’s World Cup |
| 2026 | Scores twice in semifinal victory over Algeria as Malawi reaches the WAFCON final |
| 2026 | Finishes as WAFCON runner-up and is selected in CAF’s official Team of the Tournament |
| 2027 | Malawi scheduled to make its FIFA Women’s World Cup debut in Brazil |
In Her Own Words
“I believe football is a calling from God.”
— Tabitha Chawinga, BBC Sport Africa
“I am here not only for myself, but also to represent my country.”
— Tabitha Chawinga, on joining Lyon
“It was my dream to play in the WAFCON. The time has come.”
— Tabitha Chawinga, before Malawi’s first WAFCON match
Read · Watch · Listen
Read
Tabitha Chawinga: Serie A’s top goalscorer on the adversity she faced in Malawi — BBC Sport Africa
A detailed account of Chawinga’s childhood in Rumphi, family circumstances, gender barriers, early football and move from Malawi to Sweden.
The Sisters Putting Malawi Women’s Football on the Map — BBC Sport Africa
Documents how Tabitha’s move to Sweden developed, her role in recommending Temwa to Kvarnsvedens and the pathway both sisters later followed into China.
Tabitha Chawinga Eyes African Prize After Historic Italian Golden Boot Win — CAF
Covers the 23-goal Inter season that made Chawinga the first African woman to win the Serie A Femminile Golden Boot.
Tabitha Chawinga — OL Lyonnes
Her current club profile, including contract status, appearances, titles and career biography.
Malawi Reaps Benefit of Grassroots Investment With Historic Qualification for FIFA Women’s World Cup — FIFA
Documents Malawi’s first qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Tabitha’s 11 Investments to Sponsor Two Women’s Teams — The Nation
Documents Chawinga’s financing of DD Sunshine and TC11, the transition toward formal sponsorship and her support for some players’ education.
Tabitha Out to Inspire Schools — The Nation
Details the design of the Believe in the Possibilities campaign for rural girls.
Watch
Tabitha Chawinga: “Playing in the UWCL Was My Dream” — Paris Saint-Germain
Chawinga discusses entering the UEFA Women’s Champions League and her development at PSG.
Tabitha Chawinga — OL Lyonnes
The current player profile includes club media and video material documenting her career at Lyon.
Go Deeper
Football Association of Malawi
For Scorchers coverage, Malawi football development and national-team records.
Football Association of Malawi
CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations
Official competition reporting and records from Malawi’s 2026 debut campaign.
CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations
FIFA Women’s Football
Global development programmes, World Cup qualification and the Player Impact Programme.
OL Lyonnes
Current club information and competition coverage.
FIFA Player Impact Programme
The programme supporting Chawinga and 13 other women footballers in developing player-led social-impact projects.
Read about the Player Impact Programme
Sources & Further Reading
APA 7th Edition
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BBC Sport Africa. (2023, September 1). Tabitha Chawinga: Serie A’s top goalscorer last season on the adversity she faced in Malawi. BBC Sport Africa
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2021, December 2). Malawi’s Chawinga sisters reign supreme in China. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2023, June 6). Tabitha Chawinga eyes African prize after historic Italian Golden Boot win. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2023, December 5). Malawi star Chawinga named Italian Women’s Player of Year. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2025, October 28). Malawi make history with first-ever TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations qualification. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2026, July 28). Chawinga sisters stun Nigeria in historic Malawi WAFCON upset. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2026, August 12). Chawinga sisters inspire Malawi into historic TotalEnergies CAF WAFCON final. CAF
Confédération Africaine de Football. (2026, August 21). CAF unveils Team of the Tournament for the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026. CAF
Fédération Française de Football. (2024, April 29). Trophées 2023–2024 : Les lauréates. FFF
Fédération Française de Football. (2024, April 24). Chawinga conserve sa couronne en mars. FFF
FIFA. (2025, November 28). FIFA Player Impact Programme empowers women’s footballers to drive positive social change. FIFA
FIFA. (2026, August 14). Malawi reaps benefit of grassroots investment with historic qualification for FIFA Women’s World Cup. FIFA
Football Association of Malawi. (2025, March 1). Chawinga wins double at 2024 Malawi Sports Awards. Football Association of Malawi
OL Lyonnes. (2024, July 2). Tabitha Chawinga s’engage avec l’Olympique Lyonnais jusqu’en 2027. OL Lyonnes
OL Lyonnes. (n.d.). Tabitha Chawinga. OL Lyonnes
Paris Saint-Germain. (2024, April 29). Six gongs for Paris Saint-Germain at D1 Arkema’s end-of-season awards. Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain. (2024, May 27). Chawinga in UEFA Women’s Champions League team of the season! Paris Saint-Germain
The Nation. (2021, November 3). Tabitha’s 11 Investments to sponsor 2 women’s teams. The Nation
The Nation. (2023, March 23). Tabitha out to inspire schools. The Nation
The Times Group. (2023, July 6). Tabitha Chawinga donates to former school. The Times Group
UEFA. (2024, May 27). 2023/24 Women’s Champions League Team of the Season. UEFA
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