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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.
In its early years, football in Pakistan was mainly dominated by departmental and armed forces teams, which hired footballers as employees and provided them with a basic wage to play for their sides and work full time in the off-season.
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:
The Pakistan Army Football Club serves as the football section of the Pakistan Army. The club was established in 1950 by Pakistan Army and is the third oldest existing club in Pakistan after Karachi Port Trust (1887) and Pakistan Navy (1948). [1] The club used to compete in the National Football Championship and Pakistan Premier League.
Pakistan's national team debuted in 1950 and has yet to qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals. Pakistan has never qualified for any major tournament outside the South Asian region, although on regional level the team has won the 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament , and has achieved gold at the South Asian Games in 1989 and 1991 .
Football is among the most popular team sports in Pakistan, together with long time number one cricket and field hockey. [1] [2] [3] Pakistan's current top domestic football league is the Pakistan Premier League, recognised by the AFC as the official national football league.
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Upon Pakistan's independence in 1947, both East and West wings of the country inherited the football infrastructure of the British Raj. [3] [4] 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).