WAPDA FC

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WAPDA

Full name

Water & Power Development Authority
Football Club

Nickname(s)

The Watermen

Founded

1983

Ground

Punjab Stadium,
Lahore, Pakistan
(Capacity 8,000)

Chairman

Munawar Malik

Manager

Khalid Butt

League

Pakistan Premier League

PPL 2007/8

1st





Home colours





Away colours

WAPDA are a Pakistani football club who play in the Pakistan Premier League.

WAPDA have been Pakistani champions 5 times. They won their first title in 1983, beating HBL FC, and repeated this feat in 1991 against HBL. In 2001 they overcame KRL FC to win their third title, and retained their title in 2003 against Pakistan Army FC. In 2004 in the revamped PPL, they became the inaugural champions, when they pushed Army into second in a final day decider.

They repeated the same feat, this time in the 2007-08 season, when they again beat Army on the final day of the season to win back the league after a gap of 3 years, in which Army dominated. They also set a new record going undefeated for the whole season, becoming Pakistani football's version of Invincibles.

Since the turn of the millennium, WAPDA have become one of the three dominant clubs in Pakistan. This has been aided by the quality of the football played.

They represented Pakistan in the AFC President's Cup 2005, and beat that year's runners-up Dordoi-Dynamo, 1-0, but were knocked out at the group stage.

1 Achievements
2 Performance in AFC Competitions
3 Current Squad
4 Former Players

[edit] Achievements

Pakistan Premier League: 6

1983, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007/08

Quaid-i-Azam Shield: 1

1992

All Pakistan Tufail Shaheed Football Tornament: 1

2001

[edit] Performance in AFC Competitions

Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance

1992: Qualifying - 1st round

AFC President's Cup: 1 appearance

2005: Group Stage

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Abdul Aziz
2	DF	Muhammad Shahid
3	DF	Naveed Akram
4	DF	Tanveer Ahmed
5	DF	Dilshad Ali
6	MF	Zakir Hussain
7	MF	Yasir Iqbal
8	MF	Mehmood
9	MF	Zulfiqar Ali Shah
10	FW	Khuda Bakhsh
11	FW	Arif Mahmood
12	MF	Syed Raza

No.	Position	Player
13	MF	Imran Niazi
14	FW	Qamar Zaman
16	DF	Jamshed Anwar
17	DF	Zeeshan Aslam
18	MF	Zahid Hameed
19	DF	Adeel
20	GK	Luqman Rasheed
21	DF	Akram Masih
22	MF	Burham Ali
23	FW	Syed Aoun Raza
25	FW	Bashir Ahmad

[edit] Former Players

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