ANFA targets AFC competition through National League. But ‘club licensing’ issue remains

Inviting additional A Division clubs to participate, ANFA pushes for the National League as Nepal’s route back to continental football. But the absence of any AFC-licensed clubs exposes a deeper, unresolved structural gap.

Last month, during a meeting between representatives from a dozen A Division clubs with Minister for Youth and Sports Bablu Gupta, Karma Tsering Sherpa, president of Himalayan Sherpa Club, said that the major prize for the club winning the Martyr’s Memorial ‘A’ Division League is to participate in the club competition of the Asian Football Confederation.