Afghanistan national bandy team has been set up by bandy playing

Afghan Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...

expatriates in Karlstad, Sweden, taking up a sport which is very popular in Sweden. The team is not sanctioned by the sports governing bodies in Afghanistan, even if the

Federation of International Bandy The Federation of International Bandy (FIB; french: Fédération internationale de bandy, russian: Международная федерация хоккея с мячом, sv, Internationella Bandyförbundet) is the international governing bo ...

has accepted Afghanistan as a member, so it is not allowed to take part in the

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

. However, it has played friendlies against the Somalia national bandy team (which is also based in Sweden) in 2016 and 2017.somaliabandy.com: "Vinst mot Afghanistan", januari 24, 2017
(in Swedish), read July 10, 2017

Sources

{{National bandy teams National bandy teams Bandy Bandy in Afghanistan