Football

Karachi, June 29: Leisure Leagues National Championship qualifying round commences next week as 78 different city champion teams will feature at 13 venues of the country in the group round. The qualifying round will kick start when nine different city champion teams will assemble in Sukkur next week. Another ten teams will travel to Tando Jam. Quetta will host 16 ...

Both Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) and organising committee of the 33rd National Games have pledged that no athlete will suffer and opportunity to showcase their talent will be given to all athletes in the biennial spectacle which will be hosted by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from October 26 to November 1.  “Neither the POA nor we, the organisers, want any athlete to ...

Spain’s World Cup winning striker Fernando Torres announced his retirement from football on Friday, bringing an end to a glittering 18-year career. Torres, who scored more than 100 goals across two spells at his boyhood club Atletico Madrid, also played for Premier League sides Liverpool and Chelsea and Italy’s AC Milan. He left Atletico to join Japan’s Sagan Tosu in ...

Karachi: Two eight-team leagues have simultaneously commenced as a part of Leisure Leagues at Malir Cantonment’s Major Shabbir Shareef Shaheed Football Stadium. Prior to the commencement of the two leagues, a festival match for women was also organized in an effort to promote small-sided football among both genders. The festival match was played between MLO and GFA teams. The regulation ...

Brazil striker Cristiane became the oldest person to score a World Cup hat-trick as her treble handed debutants Jamaica a 3-0 loss. The South American champions were missing legendary forward Marta, the all-time leading scorer in Women’s World Cups, through injury in Grenoble. But they got their Group C campaign off to a flying start as Cristiane headed the first ...

In a dramatic turn of events, a rape case filed against Juventus star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been dropped, a media report said. In September 2018, Katheryn Mayorga had filed a lawsuit alleging Ronaldo for sexual harassment and rape in a penthouse in the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The incident went back to June 2009 when he ...

Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) President Ashfaq Shah and officials meet with FIFA and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) delegation, which is in Pakistan on a fact finding mission to resolve PFF issues. The mission which was led by head of MA Governance FIFA Luca Nicola, Senior Manager MA Governance and Services FIFA Alexander Holt, Deputy Director Legal AFC Andrew Mercer and ...

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be a 32-team tournament as originally planned, FIFA has announced. The world governing body had considered expanding its showpiece event to 48 teams but has now determined this is not practical. FIFA shelved a proposed expansion of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 teams on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the ...

Islamabad, May 25: Thailand Embassy team recorded a 1-0 victory against their Nigerian counterparts in Pakistan in the final of Six-a-Side Leisure Leagues for Diplomats here at Jinnah Stadium. Thailand Embassy fielded two teams in the exciting league – Thailand A and Thailand B and both teams qualified for semifinals. Thailand B defeated Thailand A by 2-0 score. Nigerian Embassy ...

Karachi: Al-Shams Football Club, Tiger Football Club and Star Football Club emerged city champions of Larkana, Kandiaro and Naushahro Feroze respectively and have subsequently qualified for the Leisure Leagues National Six-a-Side Football Championship. The three teams have one moved step forward on ‘Road to Crete’ as the winner of the National Championship will qualify to represent Pakistan in the second ...