“When I step on to the pitch everything else is automatically erased from my mind,” says the captain of Afghan Women United, Fatima Haidari, when asked how football helps her cope with the traumas she ...

A tournament that included a team of refugee women's soccer players from Afghanistan has been moved to Morocco and shifted to later this week, FIFA confirmed Wednesday. The tournament, dubbed FIFA ...

United States-based female refugee soccer players from Afghanistan will not have access to FIFA-organised training camps that determine the selection process for the newly-created Afghanistan women’s ...

A FIFA-organised tournament involving the Afghanistan women’s refugee team has been moved from the United Arab Emirates to Morocco, the world football governing body said, with the four-team friendly ...

BURTON UPON TRENT, England, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul ...

After four years in exile, some of Afghanistan's female footballers have returned to the pitch, giving hope to those still in the country, fighting for basic rights.

ZURICH — 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 — ...

Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country again in a soccer ...