Bravehearts Basketball Club, sometimes written as Brave Hearts,
is a Malawian
basketball
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club based in
Lilongwe
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. The club's colours are green and white. Founded in 2015, they play in the regional Central Zone Basketball League and in the national
BASMAL National Championship.
The Bravehearts have played in the
Road to BAL tournaments in
2022
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and
2025
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.
The home arena of the team is the ABC Blue Gym.
History
The club was founded in 2015 by businessman Griffin Kalua. The Bravehearts' organization features senior men's and women's teams, as well as junior teams. In 2018, club founder Kalua took over as head coach.
The Bravehearts' men's team won the
BASMAL National Championship in 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
In the
2025 BAL qualification
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, Bravehearts qualified for the Elite 16, after finishing second in the group.
They were the first-ever Malawian team to advance past the first round.
Honours
BASMAL National Championship
* Champions (4): 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
Players
Current roster
The following is the Brave Hearts roster for the
2022 BAL Qualifying Tournaments:
References
External links
Facebook page
Basketball teams in Malawi
Road to BAL teams
Lilongwe
Basketball teams established in 2015
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