Tallest: 1 · Year
By quarter-hour; stoppage time counts as the 45th or 90th minute.
Tallest: 1 · Minute
Malawi's matches with known line-ups from their first recorded cap to their last.
| With them | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 0% |
| Without them | 37 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 22 | 40 | 24.3% |
| McClive Phiri | Zimbabwe | 2 |
| Abdou Razak Traoré | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Aboubacar Sawadogo | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Absalom Iimbondi | Namibia | 1 |
| Abubeker Nasir | Ethiopia | 1 |
| Adama Guira | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Akakulubelwa Mwachiaba | Zambia | 1 |
| Alain Traoré | Burkina Faso | 1 |
| Alec Mudimu | Zimbabwe | 1 |
| Alfeus Handura | Namibia | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 |
Finals and qualifying campaigns alike.
| 9 Jul 2021 | v Zimbabwe | 2–2 | 50′ | — | Extended lead | 2–0 | COSAFA Cup 2021 |
In a recorded line-up, on the scoresheet or booked. “—” where the line-up isn't known.
| 8 Jul 2022 | v Eswatini | 1–1 | came on 84′ | 6 | — | — | COSAFA Cup 2022 |
| 13 Jul 2021 | v Namibia | 1–1 | started, off 66′ | 66 | — | — | COSAFA Cup 2021 |
| 11 Jul 2021 | v Mozambique | 0–2 | started, off 63′ | 63 | — | Yellow | COSAFA Cup 2021 |
| 9 Jul 2021 | v Zimbabwe | 2–2 | started, off 74′ | 74 | 1 | — | COSAFA Cup 2021 |
| 17 Mar 2021 | v Ethiopia | 0–4 | came on 41′ | 49 | — | — | Friendly |
| 12 Nov 2020 | v Burkina Faso | 1–3 | started, off 45′ | 45 | — | Yellow | African Cup of Nations qualification 2020 |
| 11 Oct 2020 | v Zimbabwe | 0–0 | started | 90 | — | — | Friendly |
| 7 Oct 2020 | v Zambia | 0–1 | came on 66′ | 24 | — | — | Friendly |
| 11 Nov 2017 | v Lesotho | 1–1 | started, off 46′ | 46 | — | — | Friendly |
Caps, goals and cards count what the sources record: line-ups from about 2003 (World Cups from 1970, friendlies from about 2016), and few scorers in older friendlies — so career totals run low.