Rainford Kalaba - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Zambian player, who obtained 104 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap  Goals     Date     Venue	        Opponent       Score    Competition

  1  1	 1  11- 6-05  	Lusaka  	Swaziland 	3-0	COSAFA Cup
  2	 1  12- 6-05  	Lusaka  	Malawi  	2-1	COSAFA Cup
  3	 1  18- 6-05  	Chililabombwe	Mali    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
  4	 1  13- 8-05  	Mmabatho	South Africa 	2-2 [1]	COSAFA Cup        
  5	 1  14- 8-05  	Mmabatho	Zimbabwe	0-1	COSAFA Cup
  6	 1   3- 9-05  	Chililabombwe	Senegal 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier  
  7	 1  22- 1-06	Alexandria	Tunisia 	1-4	African Nations Cup
  8  1	 2  22- 7-06	Windhoek	Malawi  	3-1	COSAFA Cup
  9	 2  23- 7-06	Windhoek	Seychelles	2-0	COSAFA Cup
 10	 2  19- 8-06	Lusaka  	Botswana	1-0	COSAFA Cup
 11	 2  21-10-06	Lusaka  	Angola  	2-0	COSAFA Cup
 12  1	 3  26-11-06	Addis Ababa	Burundi 	2-3	CECAFA Cup
 13  1	 4   2-12-06	Addis Ababa	Zanzibar 	4-0 [*]	CECAFA Cup
 14	 4   5-12-06	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 15	 4   8-12-06	Addis Ababa	Rwanda  	1-0	CECAFA Cup
 16	 4  10-12-06	Addis Ababa	Sudan    	0-0 [2]	CECAFA Cup
 17	 4  24- 3-07	Brazzaville	Congo-Brazzav.	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 18	 4  26- 5-07	Windhoek	Namibia 	2-1	
 19	 4   2- 6-07	Chililabombwe	Congo-Brazzav.	3-0	African Cup Qual. 
 20  1	 5   9- 6-07	Morogoro	Tanzania	1-1	
 21	 5  16- 6-07	Chililabombwe	Chad    	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 22	 5  22- 8-07	Lomé    	Togo    	1-3	
 23	 5   8- 9-07	Cape Town	South Africa	3-1	African Cup Qual.
 24	 5  24-10-07	Bloemfontein	South Africa 	0-0 [3]	COSAFA Cup
 25	 5  21-11-07	Dar-es-Salaam	Tanzania	0-1	
 26	 5   6- 1-08	Radès   	Tunisia 	2-1	 
 27	 5  22- 1-08	Kumasi  	Sudan   	3-0	African Nations Cup
 28	 5  30- 1-08	Kumasi  	Egypt   	1-1	African Nations Cup
 29	 5  22- 5-08	Tripoli  	Libya   	2-2	
 30	 5  25- 5-08	Tehran  	Iran    	2-3	
 31	 5  21- 6-08	Chililabombwe	Swaziland	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 32	 5  10- 9-08	Chililabombwe	Togo    	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 33      5  19-11-08    Casablanca      Morocco         0-3 [*]
 34	 5  29- 3-09	Cairo   	Egypt   	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 35  1	 6   6- 6-09	Chililabombwe	Rwanda  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 36	 6  20- 6-09	Chililabombwe	Algeria 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 37	 6  10-10-09	Chililabombwe	Egypt   	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 38	 6  14-11-09	Kigali  	Rwanda  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 39	 6  21-11-09	Lusaka  	North Korea	4-1	 
 40	 6  28-12-09	Johannesburg	Mozambique	1-0	
 41  1	 7   9- 1-10	Johannesburg	South Korea	4-2	
 42	 7  13- 1-10	Lubango 	Tunisia 	1-1	African Nations Cup
 43	 7  17- 1-10	Lubango 	Cameroon	2-3	African Nations Cup
 44  1	 8  21- 1-10	Benguela	Gabon   	2-1	African Nations Cup 
 45	 8  26- 5-10	Calama  	Chile   	0-3	
 46	 8  11- 8-10	Kampala 	Uganda  	1-1	
 47  1	 9   5- 9-10	Chililabombwe	Comoros 	4-0	African Cup Qual.
 48  1	10  18- 9-10	Sana'a  	Yemen   	1-0	
 49	10  10-10-10	Tripoli  	Libya   	0-1	African Cup Qual.
 50	10  31-12-10	Suez    	Kuwait  	0-4	
 51	10   9- 2-11	Manzini 	Swaziland	4-0	
 52	10  27- 3-11	Maputo  	Mozambique	2-0	African Cup Qual.
 53	10   4- 6-11	Lusaka  	Mozambique	3-0	African Cup Qual.
 54	10  10- 8-11	Harare  	Zimbabwe	0-2	
 55	10   4- 9-11	Mitsamiouli	Comoros 	2-1	African Cup Qual.
 56	10  15-11-11	Kaduna  	Nigeria  	0-2	
 57	10  18-12-11	Dundo   	Angola  	0-1	
 58	10  14- 1-12	Johannesburg	Namibia 	0-0	
 59  1	11  21- 1-12	Bata    	Senegal 	2-1	African Nations Cup
 60	11  25- 1-12	Bata    	Libya   	2-2	African Nations Cup
 61	11  29- 1-12	Malabo	Equatorial Guinea	1-0	African Nations Cup
 62	11   4- 2-12	Bata    	Sudan   	3-0	African Nations Cup
 63	11   8- 2-12	Bata    	Ghana   	1-0	African Nations Cup
 64	11  12- 2-12	Libreville	Ivory Coast 	0-0 [4]	African Nations Cup
 65	11   2- 6-12	Khartoum	Sudan    	3-0 [5]	World Cup Qualifier
 66	11   9- 6-12	Ndola   	Ghana   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 67	11   8- 9-12	Ndola   	Uganda  	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 68	11   8- 1-13	Johannesburg	Morocco 	0-0	
 69	11  12- 1-13	Ndola   	Norway   	0-0 [*]	
 70	11  21- 1-13	Nelspruit	Ethiopia	1-1	African Nations Cup
 71	11  25- 1-13	Nelspruit	Nigeria  	1-1	African Nations Cup
 72	11  29- 1-13	Nelspruit	Burkina Faso	0-0	African Nations Cup
 73	11  24- 3-13	Maseru  	Lesotho 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 74	11  14- 8-13	St-Leu-La-Ft.   Senegal 	1-1	
 75	11   6- 9-13	Kumasi  	Ghana   	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
 76	11   5- 3-14	Ndola   	Uganda  	2-1	
 77	11  31- 8-14	Lusaka  	Sudan    	3-1 [*]	
 78	11   6- 9-14	Ndola   	Mozambique	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 79	11  10- 9-14	Praia   	Cape Verde Isl.	1-2	African Cup Qual.
 80	11  11-10-14	Niamey  	Niger   	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 81  1	12  15-10-14	Ndola   	Niger   	3-0	African Cup Qual.
 82	12  15-11-14	Maputo  	Mozambique	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 83	12  19-11-14	Ndola   	Cape Verde Isl.	1-0	African Cup Qual.
 84	12   4- 1-15	Johannesburg	South Africa	0-1	
 85	12  18- 1-15	Ebebiyin	Congo-Kinshasa	1-1	African Nations Cup
 86	12  22- 1-15	Ebebiyin	Tunisia 	1-2	African Nations Cup
 87	12  26- 1-15	Ebebiyin	Cape Verde Isl.	0-0	African Nations Cup
 88  1	13  29- 3-15	Lusaka  	Rwanda  	2-0	
 89	13  10- 5-15	Lusaka  	Malawi  	2-0	
 90	13  13- 6-15	Ndola   	Guinea Bissau	0-0	African Cup Qual.
 91	13   6- 9-15	Nairobi		Kenya		2-1	African Cup Qual.
 92  1	14   8- 9-15	Lusaka  	Gabon   	1-1	
 93	14  11-11-15	Karima		Sudan   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 94	14  23- 3-16	Ndola   	Congo-Brazzav.	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 95	14  27- 3-16	Brazzaville	Congo-Brazzav.	1-1	African Cup Qual.
 96  	14   4- 6-16	Bissau  	Guinea-Bissau	2-3	African Cup Qual.
 97  1	15   4- 9-16	Ndola    	Kenya    	1-1  	African Cup Qual.
 98	15   9-10-16	Ndola    	Nigeria 	1-2  	World Cup Qualifier
 99	15   8-11-16	Kampala 	Uganda   	1-0
100	15  12-11-16	Limbé    	Cameroon	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
101	15  10- 6-17	Ndola   	Mozambique      0-1     African Cup Qualifier
102	15   8- 9-18	Windhoek	Namibia 	1-1	African Cup Qual.
103	15  14-10-18	Bissau		Guinea-Bissau	1-2	African Cup Qual.
104	15  17-11-18	Maputo  	Mozambique	0-1	African Cup Qual.

[1] Zambia won 9-8 on penalty kicks.
[2] Zambia won 11-10 on penalty kicks.
[3] Zambia lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
[4] Zambia won 8-7 on penalty kicks.
[5] FIFA resolution match awarded to Zambia 3-0

[*] these four matches are not recognized as full A-internationals by FIFA, but they are 
    for the Zambian FA. Zanzibar is not a FIFA member.

NB: the matches against Nigeria (0-0,  6- 1-10 in Durban -closed doors-), South Africa
    (1-1, 11- 1-12 in Johannesburg -training match-) and Angola (0-2, 5- 1-13 in Nelspruit
    -training match-) are not full A and therefore not included here.

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   104    45   33   26   132-  92     123       59.13

Types of             Matches  Goals

Friendlies		30	 5
African Cup Qualifier	26	 3
African Nations Cup	18	 2
World Cup Qualifier	16	 1
COSAFA Cup		 9	 2
CECAFA Cup		 5	 2

Total 		       104	15


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Authors: Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com) and Jerry Muchimba (jmuchimba@gmail.com)
Last updated: 16 Mar 2024

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