WAPDA Lahore Football Club serves as the football section of

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. It is based in

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. The club used to compete in the National Football Championship and

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. The club regularly participates in the PFF National Challenge Cup. WAPDA F.C. has been Pakistan champions 8 times, winning four titles in the Pakistan Premier League. They won their first league title in 1983, beating Habib Bank, and repeated the feat in 1991. In 2001, they overcame

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to win their third title, and retained their title in 2003 against

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. In 2004 in the revamped Pakistan Premier League, they became the inaugural champions when they pushed Pakistan Army into the second spot in the final-day decider. Their biggest achievement came in 2007–08 when they finished the season unbeaten after defeating Pakistan Army on the final day. They are the only Pakistani club to finish the season unbeaten, earning the title of the Invincibles.

History

The club was founded in 1983 and won its first trophy in the National Football Championship the same year. The club won most trophies in the 2000s, winning the league five times. WAPDA's first ever Asian competition appearance was in the

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, where they lost 5–0 to Dhaka Mohammedan SC away, and drew 0–0 at home, thus losing 5–0 on aggregate. They represented Pakistan in the AFC President's Cup 2005, losing both of their games against Blue Star SC and Hello United and defeated Dordoi Bishkek 1–0 in their last group stage match as they were knocked-out of out the group stages. The club's next appearance in Asian competition was in 2008 AFC President's Cup, where once again they finished at bottom of their group, drawing one and losing two matches. In

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, WAPDA finished second in their group and qualified for semi-finals after being the best second-placed in the tournament, WAPDA faced their group-mate Regar-TadAZ in the semi-finals, WAPDA lost 4–3 at

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. Club's last Asian appearance was in

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, where they finished third in their group and were knocked out. Following the domestic football revamp in the country in 2023, departmental clubs including WAPDA remained competing in the PFF National Challenge Cup.

Honours

Domestic

* National Football Championship ** Winners (4): 1983, 1991, 2001, 2003 *

** Winners (4): 2004–05, 2007–08, 2008–09,

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* National Football Challenge Cup ** Winners (2):

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, 2023–24 * Quaid-i-Azam Shield: ** Winners (1): 1992

Performance in AFC competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

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: Qualifying - 1st round *

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: 4 appearances ::

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: 3° in Group Stage ::

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: 4° in Group Stage ::

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: Semi-finalist ::

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: 3° in Group Stage

Notable players

References

External links

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