Nepal women’s team, a six-time runner-up, could miss the SAFF Championship for the first time amid the ANFA-NSC dispute, putting the country’s four-decade-long uninterrupted South Asian football legacy under threat.

The AFC has given Nepal an indirect slot to the AFC Challenge League 2026-27 season. But with no domestic league this year as well, the slot will not be used by a Nepali club for consecutive seasons.

Immigration blacklist follows suspension row as FIFA and AFC warn Nepal to lift decision by May 4.

Defending champions Bangladesh placed with hosts India in Group B.

Having already lost a FIFA Series opportunity because of administrative turmoil, Nepal’s women footballers now prepare for SAFF amid fears that suspension politics could again deny them international action.

World football bodies warn of possible suspension if interference persists, reject call for tier-based polls.

A court in ​San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, will hear testimony from just under 100 witnesses ​as it tries Maradona’s medical team over alleged negligence in the death ⁠of the 1986 World Cup champion.

Bosnia fight back with 10-man Italy forced to penalties as Barbarez’s side seal historic World Cup berth, extending Azzurri’s long qualifying drought.

Anjan Bista Training Centre is organising ‘Next Gen Boot Camp’, a 10-day football training session for teenagers aged eight to 16 from April 4 to 13.

It will be Arena’s first international game as the head coach of Nepal. A former head coach of Laos, Arena wants to start his campaign with a win and make Nepali fans back home happy.

With Nepali football at a standstill following NSC’s suspension of ANFA, the threat of a FIFA suspension looms large. But how do international bodies actually decide when to act?

New Nepal men’s head coach lost the chance to test his team at home against Hong Kong on Thursday. Now, Nepal’s AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers fixture against Laos, scheduled for March 31, is also at risk with ‘suspended ANFA’ raising hands.

The two bodies had been at loggerheads for months over ANFA’s decision to conduct the elections of its executive body early. The tussle now risks ANFA’s suspension from FIFA.

Bagmati defeated Gandaki by 170 runs in the other match of the Men’s PM Cup on Tuesday.

The National Sports Council asks the footballing body to submit a clarification within 24 hours after going against the order to suspend early election processes.

Clubs left in limbo as ANFA-NSC standoff over visas, elections and stadium access disrupts domestic and international fixtures.

FIFA has said nearly two million tickets were sold in the first two sales phases, with demand so intense that World Cup tickets were oversubscribed over 30 times.

Two teams stay unbeaten and eight have a shot at the title, while off-field legal battles add intrigue to ANFA’s expanded competition.

Laligurans Association Club and Friends’ Club Kopundole settled for a 1-1 draw in the other match of the day.

The court on Wednesday overturned the ANFA Appeal Committee’s decision that led to Three Star’s relegation from the A Division.