The Afghan team have been absent from FIFA tournaments since the second Taliban takeover of the nation in 2021.

Meanwhile, Hamed Amiri, captain of the national U-17 football team of Afghanistan, also said that their training is going well and given the confidence and preparations, the national team will ...

The Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) called on FIFA on Tuesday to take action to recognize the Afghan women’s football team in exile as the representative of Afghanistan to ensure their return to ...

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Despite FIFA contradicting its own human rights policies of gender-based discrimination by deferring to the Afghanistan Football Federation, which refuses to support a women's team, it states that ...

Afghanistan’s national women’s football team have received support from a United Nations special rapporteur as they urge athletes worldwide to stand in solidarity as they fight their exclusion ...

FIFA is facing fresh calls to officially recognise the Afghanistan women’s football team. Members of the national side, as quoted in a report published by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA ...