Pakistan’s futsal breakthrough continued on the SAFF Championship in Thailand as the lads’s workforce secured their first-ever worldwide win on Friday, a day after the ladies recorded Pakistan’s maiden futsal victory.
Within the males’s occasion, Pakistan got here again from a 2–0 deficit to beat Bhutan 4–2 on the Hua Mak Indoor Enviornment in Bangkok, registering their first worldwide victory in futsal.
Bhutan’s Dawa Shering put his facet forward with two fast targets early on, however Pakistan responded by Hassan Zafar, who scored within the twenty eighth minute to chop the deficit.
Asif Ahmed Chaudhry levelled the match within the thirty second minute earlier than Adnan Ashfaq struck within the thirty fourth and thirty fifth minutes to finish the turnaround and seal the win.
Pakistan’s beginning 5 for the match featured Tahir Khan, Hassaan Zafar, Humza Nusrat, Nisar Hussain and Salar Khan, with Abdul Wadud, Humza Khan, Asif Ahmad, Adnan Ashfaq, Ali Agha, Abdul Hannan, Zaid Khan, Muhammad Elham and Rajab Ali listed among the many substitutes.
Pakistan had opened the event with a 7–1 defeat to the Maldives of their first match.
Within the ladies’s occasion, Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka 3–2 on Thursday, with Azwa Chaudhry scoring a hat-trick to ship the ladies’s workforce’s first-ever worldwide futsal win.
Reacting to the landmark outcomes, the Pakistan Soccer Federation (PFF) mentioned on Instagram that Pakistan’s ladies’s and males’s futsal groups had “created historical past by successful their first-ever worldwide matches at SAFF Futsal 2026”.
The PFF mentioned the groups delivered the wins “regardless of an absence of Futsal infrastructure within the nation and the challenges”, including that Pakistan ladies beat Sri Lanka 3–2 whereas the lads’s workforce “got here from behind to win in opposition to Bhutan 4-2”.
PFF President Mohsen Gilani credited the achievement to the resilience and efforts of the coaches and gamers, saying: “our gamers and coaches have made historical past and we are going to construct on this basis to take Futsal to better heights and make Pakistan a pressure in Futsal”.
The federation additionally mentioned referees and coaches from Pakistan “accomplished their programs for Futsal through the SAFF Championship”.
The ladies’s workforce returns to face the Maldives at present at 6:00pm Pakistan time, whereas the lads’s workforce will play Sri Lanka of their subsequent match on January 18.
