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

Fifa has cleared the way for the exiled Afghanistan women’s national team to represent the country but has been criticised ...

Afghan women and girls were banned from playing competitive sports. Consequently, Afghanistan’s national women’s football team had to leave the country and seek refuge in foreign countries.

FIFA is facing fresh calls to officially recognise the Afghanistan women’s football team. Members of the national ... the wellbeing of women and girls in Afghanistan” and to provide ...

The founder and former captain of Afghanistan’s women's soccer team says it's past time FIFA let them back on the pitch.

In two days, the Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team (AWNT) will be absent from the 2026 AFC Women ... we could show the world that Afghan women and girls belong in sport, in school and ...

The SRA and others, such as Popal, Malala Yousafzai and Human Rights Watch, have consistently called for Fifa to recognise the exiled team. The senior side were evacuated to Australia in 2021, and ...

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) should act to stop the ongoing discrimination against Afghan women footballers living in ...