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The Pakistan national football team (Urdu: پاکستان قومی فٹ بال ٹیم) represents Pakistan in men's international football in FIFA-authorized events and is controlled by the Pakistan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Pakistan.
Any player who refers to art. 5 par. 1 [note 1] to assume a new nationality and who has not played international football [in a match (either in full or in part) in an official competition of any category or any type of football] shall be eligible to play for the new representative team only if he fulfils one of the following conditions:
Note. There might be more footballers who have played 20 or more official international matches for Pakistan.This absence of data is notable for old long-serving players before 1999 such as Zafar Iqbal, Mateen Akhtar, Sharafat Ali, Qazi Ashfaq & Mohammad Tariq Hussain, along with many others, who are likely to have accumulated a higher number of caps than currently recorded.
The Pakistan women's national football team made its international debut at the 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka. Midfielder Ishrat Fatima of Lahore's Sports Sciences Department (Punjab University) was the first captain of the team. The team played their first match on 31 January 2010 against India at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. [3]
The provincial and divisional teams became obsolete following the introduction of the Pakistan Premier League in 2004. The departmental and armed forces teams hired footballers as employees and provided them with a basic wage to play for their sides and work full time in the off-season.
Babar was in good touch despite Pakistan's losses in warm-up games to New Zealand and Australia, scoring 80 and an unbeaten 90. Pakistan still searching for right starting lineup ahead of World ...
Upon Pakistan's independence in 1947, both East and West wings of the country inherited the football infrastructure of the British Raj. [2] [3] The need for establishing a nationwide football association to govern the game properly was urgent, since India had inherited the erstwhile Calcutta-based Indian Football Association and the All-India Football Federation (AIFF).
The AFC U-16 Championship is the top level tournament for under-16 football teams in Asia and began in 1985. Pakistan participated in the tournament for the first time in 1992, finishing fourth in their five-team group at Rajshahi Stadium in Bangladesh in May 1992. The clash between Pakistan and Maldives ended in a 1–1 draw.