Pakistan Girls’s staff celebrates after being accepted for the FIFA Sequence for the primary time. Picture: PFF
Pakistan Soccer Federation (PFF) on Monday launched a five-pillar technique aimed toward creating ladies’s soccer from grassroots participation to the nationwide staff and creating sustainable alternatives for gamers, coaches, referees and directors.
The Pakistan Girls’s Soccer Technique 2026-2030, offered beneath the theme “From Paper to Pitch”, focuses on participation and competitors, participant improvement and excessive efficiency, training and capability constructing, promotion and inclusion, and governance and management.
The technique is constructed across the current ladies’s soccer construction in Pakistan, which incorporates 62 registered golf equipment and academies, 673 registered feminine gamers and 5 licensed feminine referees, based on the federation.
PFF President Syed Mohsin Gilani mentioned the launch got here at a big second for ladies’s soccer within the nation.
“It is a historic yr for ladies’s soccer in Pakistan,” Gilani mentioned, pointing to the ladies’s nationwide staff’s participation in a FIFA occasion and its improved place on the planet rankings.
He mentioned the technique would deal with enhancing the nationwide staff’s efficiency, creating younger gamers and constructing a broader and stronger soccer ecosystem for ladies.
“We have to develop not solely gamers but additionally coaches, referees, managers and leaders,” Gilani mentioned.
The technique proposes increasing grassroots and youth competitions and introducing a phased competitors construction masking nationwide, provincial and district ladies’s leagues. It additionally requires complete participant registration and a nationwide expertise identification system.
Head of Girls’s Soccer Muzghan Orakzai mentioned the target was to ascertain a transparent pathway for ladies coming into the game at grassroots degree to progress to the nationwide staff.
“The intention is to not begin from zero, however to strengthen what already exists,” Orakzai mentioned.
Underneath the high-performance pillar, the federation plans to ascertain regional coaching centres, nationwide youth staff programmes and an built-in high-performance system for the senior ladies’s staff. The technique units a goal of at the least 10 worldwide matches a yr for the senior nationwide aspect.
The federation additionally plans to coach and certify at the least 250 ladies coaches throughout the nation’s 4 areas and improve the variety of registered feminine referees to 100.
The promotion and inclusion pillar requires consciousness programmes in faculties, faculties and universities, alongside advertising and marketing and communications initiatives, media partnerships and efforts to extend fan engagement. The federation goals to succeed in at the least 2,000 ladies yearly via programmes throughout the 4 areas.
Governance reforms will deal with rising ladies’s illustration in decision-making, strengthening monitoring and reporting, professionalising golf equipment and leagues, and enhancing safeguarding and participant welfare methods.
PFF Chief Working Officer Shahid Khokhar mentioned efficient planning was meant to align ambitions with sensible realities, whereas Technical Director Adeel Rizki described youth soccer as central to the technique’s success.
“Over the subsequent three years, a lot will rely upon what we do for younger gamers,” Rizki mentioned.
Prime Minister’s Coordinator for the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination Syeda Mehreen Sajid welcomed the trouble to ascertain a transparent pathway and referred to as for expertise in smaller cities and cities to be included alongside main city centres.
By 2030, the technique envisages elevated participation by ladies, extra gamers, coaches and referees, better alternatives for ladies in management and an expert, accountable and protected soccer system.
The federation mentioned its broader mission was to ascertain ladies’s soccer as certainly one of Pakistan’s outstanding sports activities sectors whereas creating an inclusive pathway for expertise from grassroots degree to the best stage.