Nepal’s 42-year presence in South Asian football under threat as dispute deepens

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.

Nepal could miss a South Asian football tournament for the first time in over four decades—that too by the country’s most-loved football team: Nepal women’s senior team.