WAPDA F.C.

WAPDA FC
Full name Water & Power Development Authority Football Club
Nickname(s) The Watermen
Founded 1983
Ground Punjab Stadium,
Lahore, Pakistan
(Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman Munawar Malik
Manager Khalid Butt
League Pakistan Premier League
2008–09 Pakistan Premier League, 1st
Home colours
Away colours

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

WAPDA have been Pakistani champions 7 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.

Contents

Achievements

1983, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007-08, 2008, 2010
1992

Performance in AFC competitions

1992: Qualifying - 1st round
2005: 3° in Group Stage
2008: 4° in Group Stage
2009: Semi Finalist
2011: 3° in Group Stage

AFC President's Cup matches

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
WAPDA 12 13 3 3 7 11 15 -4

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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 FW Raufay Abbasi
8 MF Mehmood
9 MF Zulfiqar Ali Shah
10 FW Arif Mehmood (captain)
12 MF Syed Raza
13 MF Imran Niazi
No. Position Player
14 FW Qamar Zaman
16 DF Jamshed Anwar
17 MF Muhammad Mehdi
18 MF Zahid Hameed
19 FW Khuda Bakhsh
20 MF Burham Ali
21 DF Akram Masih
22 GK Luqman Rasheed
23 FW Wasim Tareen
25 FW Bashir Ahmad
29 DF Adeel
32 MF Mohammad Mohsin

Former players

Officials

Head Coach Khalid Butt
Assistant Coach Syed Qasim Raza
Assistant Coach Muhammad Ayaz
Media Officer Muhammad Khalid Mehmood
Team Manager Munawar Ahmed Malik
Chief De Mission Naveed Akram Cheema