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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.
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.
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 .
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.
In ice hockey, a team must submit their starting lineup to the opposing team's captain and to the officials before the game. If a team inserts any other player into the lineup at game time, the opposing captain can direct the official to call a starting the wrong lineup penalty, a two-minute minor.
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 ...
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.