National Champions 2007 Sports Sciences and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa won honours in Group-D and entered the quarter-finals of the sixth National Women Football Championship. Both joined Islamabad, Diya Football Club, Pakistan Wapda, and Frontier Women College in the last eight. The league matches have been completed and quarter-finals will be staged on August 1 & 2. The semi-finals are being scheduled for 4th August, while third-place match and final will be played on 5th August.
Sports Sciences of Lahore clinched quarter-final spot with impressive 4-0 win over depleted Azad Jammu & Kashmir in Group-D. It was their second straight win that saw the University girls leading 1-0 at interval. Their prominent goal-scoring striker Shagufta Akhter opened the scoring in the 14th minute from the free-kick. Winger Ayesha Hassan doubled the lead in the 41st minute. Midfielder Samia Ehsan dashed through the middle to enhance the lead further to 3-0 and it was left to substitute Hira Dawood to round off the tally of Samia's through pass three minutes from time. The quarter-finalist from the Group-D were Sports Sciences and KP, while in the last match of Group-A saw Islamabad overcoming Diya FC in thrilling, absorbing 4-3 finish.
Mezjgaan Orakzai - daughter of IFA President Dr Fazal Ur Rehman - dominated the proceedings in the initial stage with two breath taking goal inside five minutes. She landed opener in the third minute of Muneza Shahid's lob pass and made it 2-0. But Diya staged remarkable recovery and neutralised both the goals. Opportunist striker Hajra Khan pulled one back in the 11th minute and midfielder Maryam Leghari's long range 25-metre drive in the 14th minute brought the shoreline to 2-2. Hajra struck her second in the 25th minute, as Diya led 3-2 at interval.
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