President Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat on Saturday unveiled the new Logo of PFF at a ceremony held at Fifa Football House.
The new logo, dynamic, stylish and energetic, picks up on the form and structure of PFF and the glittering part of the ceremony was Flag of Logo, unwrapped by Faisal Saleh Hayat, with showering of flowers, surrounded by flags of Pakistan, Fifa, AFC and in the presence of all PFF's Directors and head of Provincials/organisational Associations.
The logo is a fire-up, shining black and white football progressing gloriously towards triumph with dark green background. These are the colours of PFF as well as national flag of Pakistan viz. dark green in colour with a white bar.
The idea of fireball is to ignite, motivate the players to go for success and if they could draw with Asian Champion Iraq, they can beat any team. "The new PFF logo captures perfectly the dynamic growth of football in recent years in Pakistan, vision of Pakistan and it will drive our players, coaches, referees and organisers to go for top spot.
When people see the new Logo, we want them to be inspired to make a positive change in their life. The Logo has been targeted at the young people the PFF staff hope will get involved," said Faisal who added the Logo will teach us " Go extra mile to achieve the target".
"After Pakistan winning the soccer event of Colombo's South Asian Games two years ago to outpace Indian in overall soccer gold medal tally, football has been growing strongly in Pakistan since Faisal Saleh Hayat took over the command in 2003. I am sure this new visual identity will help to promote the football throughout our country," said Naveed Haider.
Pakistan will undertake tour of Chinese Taipei to face host Chinese Taipei, Sri Lanka and Guam in second AFC Challenge Cup from 2-6 April 2008, followed by seventh SAFF Championship where Pakistan will take on arch rival India, host Maldives and Nepal in Group-A.
The eight-nation event will be held from 3-14 June 2008. Pakistan U14 team will appear in AFC U14 Festival of football at Iran in May while Bangladesh's 11th South Asian Games in November will be held for U23 team who will vie for hat-trick of triumphs at Dhaka after back-to-back gold in 2004 and 2006.