{"id":235057,"date":"2025-10-23T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:49:15","slug":"fifa-tournament-featuring-afghan-womens-refugee-team-relocated-to-morocco-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235057\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA tournament featuring Afghan women\u2019s refugee team relocated to Morocco | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">FIFA confirms change of name to Afghan Women United, dropping \u2018refugee\u2019 from the team name ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 23 Oct 202523 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>A FIFA-organised tournament involving the Afghanistan women\u2019s refugee team has been moved from the United Arab Emirates to Morocco, the world football governing body said, with the four-team friendly competition set to begin on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFIFA Unites: Women\u2019s Series\u201d tournament, originally scheduled to run from October 23-29 in Dubai, also features the national women\u2019s teams of the UAE, Chad and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan women\u2019s refugee team\u2019s creation stems from the Taliban\u2019s ban on women\u2019s sports following their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, prompting players to flee the country, fearing persecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFIFA would like to thank the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FMRF) and looks forward to working together to host a successful tournament,\u201d FIFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The governing body also confirmed that the Afghanistan women\u2019s refugee team has chosen a new official name, \u201cAfghan Women United,\u201d following consultation with FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Taliban\u2019s takeover, Afghanistan had 25 women players under contract, most of whom now live in Australia. Afghanistan\u2019s men\u2019s team continues as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA confirms change of name to Afghan Women United, dropping \u2018refugee\u2019 from the team name ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,12241,44,588,85,29994],"class_list":{"0":"post-235057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}