Tolo News: Despite a 1-1 draw against India on Tuesday night’s qualifying match for the World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023, Afghanistan has only qualified for the third round of the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers. Afghanistan’s football team is no longer in the running for the World Cup 2022. Click here to read
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s national football team will face India on Tuesday in Qatar for the final group match in the second round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2023 AFC Asian Cup joint qualifiers. The match will kick off at 6:30 pm in Afghan time and will be aired on Lemar TV. Click here
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U-20 national football team beat Tajikistan 1-0 on Saturday night in the U-20 Women’s Championship 2021 in Dushanbe. The competition is run by the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA). The Afghan team will face Iran on Monday in its third match of the tournament. Click here to read more (external link). Other
Tolo News: Oman defeated Afghanistan 2-1 in the Asian Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 match at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Qatar on Friday. Afghanistan will face India in Group E on Tuesday. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U-20 (under 20) national football team on Wednesday left Kabul for Dushanbe, Tajikistan, for the CAFA Junior Championship, an international football competition in Central Asia. Afghans will face Uzbekistan in their first match of the competition on Friday. The tournament started in Dushanbe on June 9 and will end on June 18.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 8, 2021 Three Afghans and three Iranians will be part of a refugee team of 29 athletes competing across 12 sports at next month’s Tokyo Olympics. The team, which will compete under the Olympic flag and include athletes from countries also including Syria, South Sudan, and Eritrea, was unveiled at a virtual
Tolo News: A two-day running competition in Kabul ended on Sunday that included eighty females aged 17-21 from Herat, Kandahar, Balkh, Daikundi, and Kabul provinces. The young women competed in several distance categories, ranging from 100 meters to 3 kilometers. Click here to read more (external link). Other Afghan Sports News Afghan boxer Ramesh Rahmani
Tolo News: At least 80 women have participated in a handball competition in Kabul that started on Saturday and will continue for five days to select best players for the national team. This is the fourth year of the handball competitions in which girls from six provinces have attended. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: The 1-1 draw between Afghanistan and Bangladesh diminished the qualification hopes for both teams with the Afghan side moving to five points while Bangladeshis are on two points. Afghanistan will face Oman on June 11 while Bangladesh will face India on Monday. Their hopes of automatically advancing to the third round of the
Tolo News: Kabul Royal on Wednesday were crowned the champions of the Kabul Women’s Football League after winning all six matches in the tournament and not giving up a single goal. The league competition kicked-off two months ago with 36 matches between eight teams from Kabul. Click here to read more (external link).