Afghanistan Women's National Football Team

Official Account of the Afghanistan Women’s National Team (evacuated safely from the country in 2021). Playing unofficially, representing passionately.

[Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) @Sport_Rights]

✊🇦🇫 @khalida_popal & the Afghan Women’s National Team (@afghanwnt), who founded Afghanistan’s first women’s national team and created the @Girlpowerorg1, leading efforts to protect players facing war and persecution.

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

What a way to finish 🇦🇫🔥
Afghanistan Women end the FIFA Unites Women’s Series with a stunning 7–0 victory over Libya.
Proud of our girls, strength, unity, and passion on full display. ❤️💪⚽️

The journey continues...

#AfghanWomen #FIFAUnites #ProudMoment #Football #Victory

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

Final match ahead 🇦🇫💪
Afghanistan Women will face Libya on Saturday, November 1st at 18:00 CET in their last game of the FIFA Unites Women’s Series 2025.

Let’s go, girls! ❤️⚽️

📸:@annodong \🎨@shamsamini93

#WeBelieve #AfghanDream #SheBelieves #WomenInSport #FootballIsFreedom

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

What a special moment!
During our match against Tunisia, Dr. @nadi9nadim visited our girls, congratulating them on their return to football and inspiring them with powerful words of hope and motivation. 🇦🇫✨⚽️

#AfghanWomen #FIFAUnitedWomen #InspiringChange #HopeLives #foryou

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

Beautiful moments captured from our second game in the FIFA Unites Women's Series against Tunisia.

📸: @AnnOdong

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

Watch our player Mona Amini on @abcnews , sharing her excitement after being selected for the Afghan Women’s Refugee Team 🇦🇫⚽📹

#AWRT #abcnews #reels #foryou

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

👑⚽️ Goal Queen!
@mohammadi_nilab crowned Golden Boot winner of the Women’s State League 2 with 16 goals🇦🇺.
She is also among our 23 players set to participate in the upcoming FIFA series in Dubai, UAE.⚽️🇦🇫

[Joey Lynch @joeylynchy]

FIFA has released the inaugural Afghan women’s refugee team, set to play three friendlies later this month - their first games since the Taliban takeover of their home

13 of the squad are members of the @AfghanWnt that came to Australia and were supported by @gomvfc and @thepfa

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

From exile to the pitch 🌍⚽️ our players will play as “The Afghan Women’s Refugee Team” in unofficial FIFA friendly 1st international games Oct 23–29 in Dubai vs UAE, Chad & Libya. A FIFA-backed series marking a milestone in their fight for recognition. #AWRT

[Khalida Popal @khalida_popal]

Today, the FIFA Council announced the establishment of an Afghan Women’s Refugee Team (AWRT) as part of a broader strategy to support Afghan women footballers both in and outside the country. 📢 @AfghanWnt

https://t.co/vwejtwoYth
and
https://t.co/6s8AlzpSxT

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Great and uplifting news!

FIFA has approved the formation of the Afghanistan Women’s Refugee Team (AWRT)—a powerful step in support of Afghan female athletes who continue to chase their dreams, even in exile. This team will give them a platform to shine, represent, and inspire.

[Afghanistan Women's National Football Team @AfghanWnt]

"I was 5 when my father was killed by the Taliban and… age 12, my mother was killed by the Taliban… I found my sisterhood community through football & today I am using it to stand for my rights and the rights of every Afghan Girl who lost their dreams."

https://t.co/IdCFUfiQsi

[Suzy Wrack @SuzyWrack]

Fifa closes on recognising 🇦🇫 Afghanistan women’s team but players say it is too late👇 https://t.co/qXI6ZfrbwQ

[Displaced International @displacedint]

Displaced International calls on @FIFAcom to end the exclusion of displaced Afghan women footballers. By barring the @AfghanWnt from another World Cup cycle, FIFA is inadvertently reinforcing the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women—an act the @UN and rights groups have called a crime against humanity.

These athletes escaped gender apartheid, yet FIFA’s inaction extends that persecution to the global stage. Afghan women deserve more than empty solidarity—they need their rightful place in international football. Anything less is complicity.

Sign DI's global petition to end gender apartheid as a key driver of forced migration from Afghanistan:
https://t.co/XQaJUZZPP9

Read this call for action:
https://t.co/OUpaUrNOp7

#LetAfghanWomenPlay #FIFA #HumanRights #GenderApartheid
@FIFAWorldCup @FilippoGrandi
@khalida_popal @MAshrafHaidari

[Shubham Jain @shubhamjain224]

Afghan women must be allowed to represent their country in every sport. Excellent from @damopeck & @AnthonyRFurci to highlight the fight for @FIFAcom recognition by @AfghanWnt. Very important with the @theafcdotcom Women's Cup coming up! #Football #Sports
https://t.co/66ZHxVzLPL

[ABC SPORT @abcsport]

⚽🇦🇫 Australian-based @AfghanWnt soccer players are calling for recognition by FIFA to compete on the world stage again.

Next year Australia hosts the AFC Women's Asian Cup, while the team has been in exile since the 2021 takeover by the Taliban.

More: https://t.co/QNRNvcgPPC

[Craig F̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ @Craig_Foster]

Great to catch up again with the amazing Afghan Women’s National Team, this time in Wagga Wagga, regional NSW.

Thanks to the local community who have invited the team, who now play for Melbourne Victory, to play a match against the local select women’s team and to show their support.

Wagga is a welcoming city with a large refugee and multicultural community from Iraq, Iran, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Nepal, Vietnam and many other countries.

Thanks to the Council, local football community and the local multicultural council @AfghanWnt

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Australia will join with Germany, Canada and the Netherlands to hold the Taliban to account for its violation of obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

[Malala Fund @MalalaFund]

Malala Fund wants to see the Taliban held to account for violating the rights of Afghan women and girls. Bringing a case before the International Court of Justice is a move in the right direction.

Afghan women and girls are facing extreme and systematic oppression — with no right to education, to work or even speak in public. The need to confront these systemic atrocities head on is urgent. Flagrant violations of women and girls' rights cannot go unnoticed. We need leaders to codify gender apartheid in international law and secure human rights.

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Australia condemns the Taliban’s efforts to silence the voices of Afghanistan’s women and girls.

The latest vice and virtue decree bans women’s voices and bare faces in public.

We stand together with the women and girls of Afghanistan, and in support of their human rights.