Pakistan gamers have fun their victories on the SAFF Championship on the Hua Mak Indoor Area in Bangkok, Thailand. — Instagram/@pakistanffofficial
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 Area in Bangkok, registering their first worldwide victory in futsal.
Bhutan’s Dawa Shering put his aspect 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 match with a 7–1 defeat to the Maldives of their first match.
Within the girls’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 girls’s and males’s futsal groups had “created history by winning their first-ever international matches at SAFF Futsal 2026”.
The PFF mentioned the groups delivered the wins “despite a lack of Futsal infrastructure in the country and the challenges”, including that Pakistan girls beat Sri Lanka 3–2 whereas the lads’s workforce “came from behind to win against Bhutan 4-2”.
PFF President Mohsen Gilani credited the achievement to the resilience and efforts of the coaches and gamers, saying: “our players and coaches have made history and we will build on this foundation to take Futsal to greater heights and make Pakistan a force in Futsal”.
The federation additionally mentioned referees and coaches from Pakistan “completed their courses for Futsal during the SAFF Championship”.
The ladies’s workforce returns to face the Maldives in the present day at 6:00pm Pakistan time, whereas the lads’s workforce will play Sri Lanka of their subsequent match on January 18.
