Khyber Lion advances in Peshawar Football League

In the first match of opening day in Peshawar Football League, Khyber Karwan Lion in a thrilling match defeated DC Chitral Markoor by 3-2. Khyber Lion was 2 goals down at the end of first half but the staged a strong comeback and scored 3 goals in the second half to win the match.

Muhammad Nouman and Alamgir netted two quick goals through field attempts. Muhammad Nouman got a free ball from mid-fielder Sher Afzal and zoomed quickly into the danger zone where he netted a superb goal to make the tally 1-0. After a short-break of 7-minute in the first half Alamgir slammed in another forceful kick from the 25-yard distance and made the tally 2-0. Till the end of the first half play DC Chitral Markoor team have their two goals lead.

In the second half, Khyber Karwan Lion managed their position accordingly and despite in two goals deficit staged a strong comeback by scoring three consecutive goals and won the match by 3-2. Right winger Imran, center forward Ibrahim and left winger Amir scored one goal each through the field attempts. The second-half was totally dominated by Khyber Karwan Lion who scored three goals to win the match by 3-2.

In another match, City Eagles and Islamia College Stoori played a 1-1 draw before City Eagles was leading 1-0 at half-time. Hashim scored a beautiful goal through field attempt for City Eagles while Mehmood banged in the equalizer in the second half. Both City Eagles and Islamia College Stoori raided on each other defense with some good attacking moves but none of the teams could get any lead till the end of the first 25-minute play. This was Hashim, the right winger who scored a superb goal on the field attempt in the 26th minute.

Leading 1-0 at half-time, City Eagles failed to click in the second session dominated by Islamia College Stoori. Islamia College Stoori found the equalizer in the 68th minute through Mehmood, the center striker and thus the match ended in a 1-1 draw.

In the third match of the days processing Town-3 Jagwar and Abaseen also played 1-1 draw. Yasir scored for Town-3 Jagwar and Abbas leveled the tally 1-1 for Abaseen.

Vice Chancellor Sarhad University of Science and Technology Peshawar Salim Ur Rehman was the chief guest on this occasion. He formally made the commencement of the opening of Peshawar Football League in which a total 10 teams are taking part. Director CECOS University Sohaib, Secretary KP Football Association Basit Kamal, international footballers Qazi Asif, Atiq Shinwari, Jamshed Khan, Allouddin, Zeeshan, officials of the other participating teams, players and large number of spectators were also present. The winner will be awarded Rs 0.1 million while the runners-up will get Rs 50,000, best goal-keeper, best player, best scorer, best emerging player and best referee will be awarded Rs 10,000 each.
The participating teams in the tournament are

1. Qisa Khawani Darwash
2. City Eagles
3. Sarhad Nangayali
4. Islamia College Stoori
5. DC Chitral Markoor
6. Town-3 Jagwars
7. Hayatabad Tooryalay
8. Town-1 Tigers
9. DC Sarkar Peshawar
10. Khyber Karwan Azmari