The Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup was an annual football tournament held in

Ghazi Stadium Ghazi Stadium (; ) is a multi-purpose stadium located in eastern Kabul, Afghanistan, which is mainly used for association football matches. It is sometimes called by other names such as the Afghan Football Federation Stadium. It was built during t ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. The football tournament was part of a festival of sporting and cultural events staged annually in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

from 1974 till 1977 to commemorate the anniversary of the

Republic of Afghanistan A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...

, following its foundation on 17 July 1973 when Mohammad Daoud Khan came to power following the

1973 Afghan coup d'état The 1973 Afghan coup d'état was led by Army General and prince Mohammed Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan under a one-party system led by ...

. It was stopped following Daoud's assassination on 28 April 1978 during a coup d'état (the

Saur Revolution The Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution ( ps, د ثور انقلاب; prs, إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (, ) by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ...

) which formed the

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA),, renamed the Republic of Afghanistan, in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. The PDPA came to power ...

. The anniversary of the Saur Revolution was also celebrated with a similar ''Jashn'' festival later on in 1979, which was won by

Pamir Dushanbe CSKA Pamir Dushanbe ( tg, Клуби футболи ЦСКА-Помир Душанбе, Klubi Futboli CSKA Pomir Dushanbe; fa, زسکا پامیر دوشنبه) is a professional football club based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan that currently plays in ...

for the fifth consecutive time. The 1976 edition also featured the official national teams of

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and

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Etymology

The festival was referred to as ''Jashn-e-Jamhouriat'' (), ''Jashn-e-Kabul'', or simply ''Jashn''. It was also referred to in the

Kabul Times ''The Kabul Times Daily'' ( prs, روزنامه کابل تایمز; ) is a state-run English-language newspaper in Afghanistan, initially established on February 27, 1962 as ''The Kabul Times''. , it had a daily circulation of 47,000 and is offe ...

newspaper as the ''Jame-Jamhouriat Cup'' (), or as ''Jamhouriat Cup''.

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