![Kaleem signs for Iraq’s Al-Najaf FC [The News]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kaleemullah-to-join-Al-Najaf-FC-of-Iraq-1000x535.jpg "Kaleem signs for Iraq’s Al-Najaf FC [The News]")
Pakistan NT superstar looks set to leave Igdirspor for Iraqi Premier League side Al-Najaf.
Author: Editorial Staff (Editorial Staff)
![AFC U23 Qualifiers: Uncertainty creating anxiety among players, coaches [The News]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/AFC-U23-Championship-2020-qualifiers-draw.jpg "AFC U23 Qualifiers: Uncertainty creating anxiety among players, coaches [The News]")
February11February 11, 2019
AFC U23 Qualifiers: Uncertainty creating anxiety among players, coaches [The News]
With no end of new PFF crisis in sight due to FIFA inaction, worries that Pakistan will again return to missing international events.
![PM Imran meets Touchsky Group CEO for revolutionising football in Pakistan [The Nation]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Javed-Afridi-and-Ahmer-Kunwar-with-Imran-Khan-1160x535.jpg "PM Imran meets Touchsky Group CEO for revolutionising football in Pakistan [The Nation]")
January29January 29, 2019
PM Imran meets Touchsky Group CEO for revolutionising football in Pakistan [The Nation]
Peshawar Zalmi, TSG plan football league in Pakistan.
![Will guest appearances by Kaka, Figo revive football in Pakistan? [AlJazeera]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Luis-Figo-Saddam-Hussain-Kaka-at-World-Soccer-Stars-promo-in-Karachi.jpg "Will guest appearances by Kaka, Figo revive football in Pakistan? [AlJazeera]")
January26January 26, 2019
Will guest appearances by Kaka, Figo revive football in Pakistan? [AlJazeera]
Retired footballers to play two exhibition matches with other former players in a cricket-mad country later this year.
January21January 21, 2019
Ufone Balochistan Cup scheduled for March
3rd edition of Ufone Balochistan Football Cup to feature 720 players in 48 teams from across the province.
![Atletico Madrid shoot for football future in cricket-mad Pakistan [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Atletico-Madrid-academy-trainees-in-Lahore-800x535.jpg "Atletico Madrid shoot for football future in cricket-mad Pakistan [Dawn]")
January21January 21, 2019
Atletico Madrid shoot for football future in cricket-mad Pakistan [Dawn]
"We are not looking for players for Atletico Madrid because we know that this is going to be very difficult... Our target is to improve the football here," Coach Javier Visea told AFP.
![Football: The Facade of Exhibition Games [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Luis-Figo-and-Kaka-at-World-Soccer-Stars-promo-1160x535.jpg "Football: The Facade of Exhibition Games [Dawn]")
January20January 20, 2019
Football: The Facade of Exhibition Games [Dawn]
The euphoria of the recent visit to Pakistan of Kaka and Figo will fetch nothing substantial. Pakistan needs to do much more than that to improve the standard and quality of the game in the country
![The balance sheet [TNS]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/KRL-vs-SSGC-PPFL-2018-finale.jpg "The balance sheet [TNS]")
January20January 20, 2019
The balance sheet [TNS]
There were quite a few positives but also some negatives during the Pakistan Premier Football League which took place after three years.
![PSB recognises PFF’s newly-elected office bearers [The News]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PSB-vs-PFF.jpg "PSB recognises PFF’s newly-elected office bearers [The News]")
January18January 18, 2019
PSB recognises PFF’s newly-elected office bearers [The News]
SC-backed new PFF body re-affiliates with PSB.
![Hayat may face SC wrath as FIFA confirms PFF returned unused funds [Dawn]](https://footballpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Supreme-Court-1024x535.jpg "Hayat may face SC wrath as FIFA confirms PFF returned unused funds [Dawn]")
January17January 17, 2019
Hayat may face SC wrath as FIFA confirms PFF returned unused funds [Dawn]
Despite SC orders to make PFF finances come under its scrutiny, Hayat-led PFF had returned all leftover funds back to FIFA.