Football\u2019s global governing body, FIFA, has suspended the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) with immediate effect, plunging Nepali football into a severe crisis.<\/p>\n
Bureau of the FIFA Council enforced the ban due to a serious violation of rules regarding third-party interference.<\/p>\n
According to FIFA statutes, all member nations must manage their sports affairs independently and without any external or government influence.<\/p>\n
The decision follows a long-standing dispute between Nepal’s National Sports Council (NSC) and ANFA over internal elections and management. Both FIFA and the AFC had previously warned Nepal of a potential ban.<\/p>\n
Following the suspension, the Nepali national team, local clubs, and football officials are completely barred from participating in all international competitions and activities under FIFA and the AFC.<\/p>\n
FIFA has stated that the international ban will only be lifted after all external interference ends and its strict conditions are fully met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Football\u2019s global governing body, FIFA, has suspended the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) with immediate effect, plunging Nepali football into a severe crisis. Bureau of the FIFA Council enforced the ban due to a serious violation of rules regarding third-party interference. According to FIFA statutes, all member nations must manage their sports affairs independently and without any external or government influence. The decision follows a long-standing dispute between Nepal’s National Sports Council (NSC) and ANFA over internal elections and management. Both FIFA and the AFC had previously warned Nepal of a potential ban. Following the suspension, the Nepali national team, local clubs, and football officials are completely barred from participating in all international competitions and activities under FIFA and the AFC. FIFA has stated that the international ban will only be lifted after all external interference ends and its strict conditions are fully met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[520,730],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}