Alex Chola - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Zambian player, who obtained 102 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps; he scored 43 international goals for his National Team and thereby entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap  Goals     Date	Venue    	Opponent       Score	Competition

  1	     30- 3-75	Blantyre	Malawi  	6-1	African Cup Qual.
  2  1	 1   14- 4-75	Lusaka  	Malawi  	3-3	African Cup Qual.
  3  2	 3    4- 5-75	Lusaka  	Mauritius	5-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
  4  2	 5   18- 5-75	Port Louis	Mauritius	4-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
  5      5   22- 6-75	Maputo  	Tanzania 	1-1	International Tourn.
  6      5   29- 6-75	Maputo  	Mozambique 	1-2	International Tourn.
  7	 5   31- 8-75	Zomba   	Malawi  	1-1 [!] Olympic Games Q.
  8  2	 7   12-10-75	Lusaka  	Malawi  	4-1 [!] Olympic Games Q.
  9  1   8   24-10-75	Lusaka  	Mozambique 	3-0	International Tourn.
 10	 8   26-10-75	Lusaka  	Uganda  	2-1	African Cup Qual.
 11  1	 9   31-10-75	Lusaka  	Kenya   	1-2	CECAFA Cup
 12	 9    2-11-75	Lusaka  	Uganda  	0-1	CECAFA Cup
 13	 9   15- 2-76	Chingola	Nigeria 	1-3	
 14	 9    4- 4-76	Khartoum	Sudan   	0-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 15	 9    9- 5-76	Lusaka  	Malawi  	4-0	African Cup Qual.
 16	 9   30- 5-76	Blantyre	Malawi  	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 17      9   30- 9-76	Gaborone	Botswana	3-2	International Tourn.
 18  2	11    5-11-76	Zanzibar	Zanzibar	3-0	CECAFA Cup
 19	11    8-11-76	Zanzibar	Somalia 	4-2	CECAFA Cup
 20	11   12-11-76	Zanzibar	Kenya   	2-0	CECAFA Cup
 21	11   14-11-76	Zanzibar	Uganda  	0-2	CECAFA Cup
 22  1	12   16-11-76	Dar-es-Salaam	Tanzania	3-2
 23	12   13- 2-77	Kampala 	Uganda  	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 24  1	13   27- 2-77	Ndola   	Uganda  	4-2	World Cup Qualifier
 25  1	14   26- 3-77	Lusaka  	Malawi  	8-0	
 26	14    9- 6-77	Alger      	Algeria 	0-2	African Cup Qual.
 27     14   16- 6-77	Kitwe    	Cuba    	0-1
 28	14   26- 6-77	Lusaka  	Algeria  	2-0 [1]	African Cup Qual.
 29	14   15- 7-77	Cairo   	Egypt   	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 30	14   31- 7-77	Lusaka  	Egypt   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 31     14    3-10-77	Lusaka  	India 		3-1 
 32  2	16   27-11-77	Mogadishu	Tanzania	4-2	CECAFA Cup
 33	16   29-11-77	Mogadishu	Malawi  	0-1	CECAFA Cup
 34	16    5-12-77	Mogadishu	Kenya   	4-2	CECAFA Cup
 35	16    9-12-77	Mogadishu	Uganda   	1-1 [2]	CECAFA Cup
 36  2	18   28- 1-78	Lusaka  	Zanzibar	6-1	
 37  1	19   29- 1-78	Lusaka  	Zanzibar	5-0	
 38  3	22    5- 2-78	Lusaka  	Swaziland	9-1	
 39	22    5- 3-78	Accra   	Ghana   	1-2	African Nations Cup
 40	22    8- 3-78	Accra   	Upper Volta	2-0	African Nations Cup
 41	22   25- 6-78	Lusaka  	Malawi  	0-0	
 42	22   28-10-78	Lusaka  	Algeria 	0-3	
 43  1	23    7-11-78	Blantyre	Uganda  	2-1	CECAFA Cup
 44  1	24    9-11-78	Blantyre	Somalia 	4-0	CECAFA Cup
 45  1	25   11-11-78	Blantyre	Malawi  	1-2	CECAFA Cup
 46  1	26   13-11-78	Blantyre	Kenya   	9-0	CECAFA Cup
 47	26   17-11-78	Blantyre	Uganda  	4-0	CECAFA Cup
 48	26   19-11-78	Blantyre	Malawi  	2-3	CECAFA Cup
 49	26   15- 4-79	Blantyre	Malawi  	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 50	26   29- 4-76	Lusaka  	Malawi  	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 51	26   24- 6-78	Lusaka  	Zaire   	4-1	
 52  1  27    6- 9-78	Lobamba  	Swaziland 	6-1
 53     27    7- 9-78	Lobamba 	Swaziland 	5-2	
 54  1	28   30- 6-79	Kinshasa	Zaire   	2-1	
 55	28   11- 8-79	Dar-es-Salaam	Tanzania	0-1	African Cup Qual.
 56  1	29   26- 8-79	Lusaka  	Tanzania	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 57	29   28-10-79	Lusaka  	Lesotho 	0-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 58	29    4-11-79	Nairobi 	Uganda  	2-1	CECAFA Cup
 59  1	30    6-11-79	Nairobi 	Tanzania	2-2	CECAFA Cup
 60	30   10-11-79	Nairobi 	Kenya   	1-3	CECAFA Cup
 61	30   25-11-79	Maseru  	Lesotho 	5-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 62	30   22- 2-80	Cairo   	Egypt   	1-4 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 63  1	31   13- 4-80	Lusaka  	Egypt   	1-1 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 64  1	32   19- 4-80	Bulawayo	Tanzania	2-0	International Tourn.
 65	32   20- 4-80	Salisbury	Zimbabwe	1-2	International Tourn.
 66	32   18- 5-80	Addis Adaba	Ethiopia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 67  1	33    1- 6-80	Lusaka  	Ethiopia	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 68  1	34    7- 6-80	Ndola   	Zimbabwe	2-1	
 69	34    8- 6-80	Lusaka  	Zimbabwe	1-3	
 70	34   15- 6-80	Blantyre	Malawi  	0-2	
 71	34   29- 6-80	Lusaka  	Kenya   	5-0	
 72	34   20- 7-80	Leningrad	Cuba    	0-1 [!] Olympic Games
 73	34   22- 7-80	Moskva  	Soviet Union	1-3 [!] Olympic Games
 74	34    2-11-80	Lusaka  	Angola  	1-1	
 75	34   16-11-80	Fès     	Morocco 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 76	34   30-11-80	Lusaka  	Morocco  	2-0 [3]	World Cup Qualifier
 77     34    7-12-80	Kisumu  	Kenya 		1-1 
 78     34   10-12-80	Nakuru  	Kenya		0-2 
 79     34   12-12-80	Nairobi 	Kenya		1-2
 80  3	37    3- 3-81	Kitwe   	Congo-Brazz.	4-1	
 81  1	38    5- 4-81	Lusaka  	Congo-Brazz.	1-1	
 82	38   11- 4-81	Salisbury	Zimbabwe	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 83	38   25- 4-81	Lusaka  	Zimbabwe	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 84  1	39   26- 6-81	Lusaka  	Zaire   	3-1	
 85  1	40   28- 6-81	Lusaka  	Zaire   	3-3	
 86  1	41   16- 8-81	Casablanca	Morocco 	1-2	African Cup Qual.
 87	41   30- 8-81	Lusaka  	Morocco 	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 88	41   18- 2-82	Gaborone	Botswana	2-0	
 89	41    7- 3-82	Benghazi	Algeria 	0-1	African Nations Cup
 90	41   10- 3-82	Benghazi	Ethiopia	1-0	African Nations Cup
 91	41   13- 3-82	Benghazi	Nigeria 	3-0	African Nations Cup
 92	41   16- 3-82	Tripoli 	Libya   	1-2	African Nations Cup
 93	41   18- 3-82	Tripoli 	Algeria 	2-0	African Nations Cup
 94  1	42    1-10-82	Cairo   	Egypt   	5-3	
 95	42    3-10-82	Cairo   	Egypt   	0-0	
 96  1	43   10- 4-83	Khartoum	Sudan   	1-2	African Cup Qual.
 97	43   24- 4-83	Lusaka  	Sudan   	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 98	43    9-10-83	Lusaka  	Egypt   	1-0 [!] Olympic Games Q.
 99	43   29-10-83	Cairo   	Egypt   	0-2 [!] Olympic Games Q.
100	43   10- 8-85	Lagos   	Nigeria 	0-0	African Cup Qual.
101	43   18- 8-85	Lusaka  	Nigeria 	1-0	African Cup Qual.
102	43    8-10-85	Bulawayo	Uganda  	0-3	CECAFA Cup

[1] Zambia won 6-5 on penalty kicks.
[2] Zambia lost 3-5 on penalty kicks.
[3] Zambia lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.

[!] the Olympic matches are not recognized as full A-internationals by FIFA, but they 
    are for the Zambian FA.


Total Record: 

Matches     Won   Draw  Lost   For Against  Points   Percentage 
 102         52     19    31     212-111      123        60.29


Types of             Matches  Goals

Friendlies		29	18
CECAFA Cup		20	10
African Cup Qualifier	19	 4
Olympic Games Qualifier	11	 7
World Cup Qualifier	 8	 2
African Nations Cup	 7	 0
Olympic Games		 2	 0
Other Tournaments 	 6	 2

Total caps / goals:    102	43



About this document

Thanks to Neil Morrison; sources included: Times of Zambia and Zambia Daily Mail

Prepared and maintained by Jerry Muchimba and Roberto Mamrud for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Jerry Muchimba and Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com)
Last updated: 12 Mar 2015

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