KABUL (Pajhwok): The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has revealed the groupings for the upcoming 2026 AFC Futsal Asian Cup ...

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Noori had defied family pressure to represent Afghanistan professionally by playing for the country's ...

Afghanistan women’s refugee team played their first match in a FIFA-organised four-team friendly competition in Morocco.

Bangladesh will play a friendly match against Afghanistan at home as part of their preparation for November’s AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers home fixture against India.

In frantic phone calls and voice messages, Khalida Popal can hear the distress and tearful pleas for help. The football players in the Afghanistan women’s national team that Popal helped establish now ...

Afghanistan's female footballers were forced to flee to all parts of the globe after the return of the Taliban. After four years of fighting to represent their country on the pitch again, they are ...

Australia hosting the Women's World Cup last year was remarkably convenient for Mursal Sadat, a resident of the host nation for roughly two years. She and her teammates were invited to tour the locker ...

The aeroplane banked in preparation for landing and Ashley Westwood looked out of the window at what he thought was Kabul, the Afghan capital. Westwood — once on the books at Manchester United and ...

On August 15, Khalida Popal watched from Denmark as her country fell into the grip of the Taliban. Following nearly two decades of conflict, the insurgent militant group reclaimed Afghanistan’s ...

With last week marking a year since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, football star Nadia Nadim is coming to terms with a “weird feeling.” The anniversary comes weeks after a landmark ...

There’s an international football match today. It sees the 165th ranked team in the world face the 152nd. It won’t be taking place on the home turf of either country. The stadium staging it isn’t ...