"We would like our side ... to get at least five matches against some better sides before the qualifiers" in March 2019.
![Preparation for 2020 Olympics qualifiers: PFF plans to arrange international matches for team [The News]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pakistan-U23-at-2018-Asian-Games-1160x535.jpeg "Preparation for 2020 Olympics qualifiers: PFF plans to arrange international matches for team [The News]")
September30September 30, 2018
Category: Olympics
August25August 28, 2016
Olympic Football Review and looking ahead to Tokyo 2020
The Olympic Games is adjudged as the pinnacle of sporting events, and rightly so – with football playing a role...
![Failure yet again [The News on Sunday]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Untitled-4.jpg "Failure yet again [The News on Sunday]")
May24May 24, 2015
Failure yet again [The News on Sunday]
Following a disappointing failure in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers a couple of months back, Pakistan football team also failed to impress in the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 Championship qualifiers.
![Players were not confident: Hasan [The News]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Nauman-Ibrahim-Asghar-Anjum-Hassan-Baloch.jpg "Players were not confident: Hasan [The News]")
May23May 23, 2015
Players were not confident: Hasan [The News]
Pakistan football team’s assistant coach Hassan Baloch on Friday said that the confidence level of the players was not good during the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 Championship Group B qualifiers.
![AFC qualifiers aftermath: PFF backing Shamlan despite poor show [Express Tribune]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shamlaan.jpg "AFC qualifiers aftermath: PFF backing Shamlan despite poor show [Express Tribune]")
May20May 20, 2015
AFC qualifiers aftermath: PFF backing Shamlan despite poor show [Express Tribune]
Despite a dismal show at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) 2016 U23 Championship qualifiers, Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) secretary Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi hopes to extend coach Mohammed Shamlan’s contract, which ends in July.
May19August 23, 2020
With Kuwait defeat, Pakistan football faces uncertain future
Already without competitive football for the next four years after their 3-1 aggregate loss to Yemen in the first round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in March, the game in the country is left facing an uncertain future.
![Shamlan positive as U23s leave for AFC Championship [The News]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/download.jpg "Shamlan positive as U23s leave for AFC Championship [The News]")
May14May 14, 2015
Shamlan positive as U23s leave for AFC Championship [The News]
Despite having failed to secure international friendlies, Pakistan football team coach Mohammad Shamlan on Wednesday said his charges would give tough time to their strong rivals in the 2016 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 Championship Qualifiers
![Failure, yet again [TNS]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Pakistan.jpg "Failure, yet again [TNS]")
March29March 29, 2015
Failure, yet again [TNS]
Like in the past, Pakistan fell in the first round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers when they were held by Yemen to a goalless draw in their second leg in Manama on March 23.
![AFC U23 Group B qualifiers may be delayed till May [The News]](https://www.footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pakistan-vs-Indonesia-2014.jpg "AFC U23 Group B qualifiers may be delayed till May [The News]")
March27March 27, 2015
AFC U23 Group B qualifiers may be delayed till May [The News]
It is likely that the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 Championship qualifiers of Group B, also carrying Pakistan, would be held in the first week of May, a well-placed source told ‘The News’ on Wednesday.
March18March 18, 2015
Shamlan will not extend Pakistan contract [Dawn]
Pakistan head-coach Mohammed Al Shamlan will not extend his contract with the national team after it expires in July this year.