For nearly five years, dozens of Afghanistan’s women soccer players have lived in exile — scattered across Australia, the United States and Europe — unable to officially represent their country’s ...

Football governing body FIFA on Tuesday announced that the Afghan Women's Refugee Team will be allowed to participate in official competitions. "The FIFA Council today approved a momentous amendment ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women's soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...

Afghanistan women will become a "symbol of resilience" after Fifa approved their return to international competition, says former captain Khalida Popal.

A team of Afghan refugees will participate in its first international soccer tournament, which will be a round-robin event for four women's national teams in the United Arab Emirates, FIFA announced ...

The Afghan women’s national football team, forced into exile after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, has been given a formal route back into international competition following a significant rule ...

The Afghan women's refugee team will participate in its first-ever international tournament in October. The upcoming FIFA Unites: Women's Soccer will kick off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women's national team, celebrated the team's reinstatement in what she described as a "historical moment" after a ...

For Afghanistan's national soccer team, 2013 was a groundbreaking year. Not only did the team play its first international match for a decade, but it won its first ever international trophy in the ...