KATHMANDU, Dec 25: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) on Tuesday announced a special package to the spectators for the Qatar Airways Martyr’s Memorial A-Division League.

KATHMANDU, May 5: Bowlers turned in a quality performance in the final match as departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club defeated New Horizon Butwal by 59 runs to win the second edition of Karnali Premier League (KPL) held at Kalinchowk Cricket Ground in Surkhet on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, May 4: New Horizon Butwal held its nerve to chase a tricky total of 63 runs by three wickets against Karnali XI in a semifinal match to reach the final of the second season of Karnali Premier League held at Kalinchowk Cricket Ground in Surkhet on Friday.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Saraswati Youth Club has advanced into the final of the second Roj Bahini Chandragiri Gold Cup football tournament with 1-0 win over A-Division League opponent Jawalakhel Youth Club in Chandragiri on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, April 30: Skipper Rabindra Jung Shahi’s all-round performance helped Karnali XI clinch 11-run win against departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club in the ongoing Karnali Premier League during a Group A match played at Kalinchowk Cricket Ground in Surkhet on Monday.

KATHMANDU, April 28: The host team Karnali XI has reached the semifinal of the ongoing Karnali Premier League after defeating Mid-western Cricket Club by 31 runs in the last group match played in Surkhet on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 30: Nepal Police Club defeated New Road Team (NRT) 3-0 in the fifth rounds of the Martyr Memorial A-Division League at the ANFA Complex in Satdobato.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: Nepali youth striker Bimal Gharti Magar is not to be seen in the remaining matches of ongoing home soccer event- Martyr's Memorial 'A' Division League as he is all set to go to Belgium for a trial.

Football league resumes from Wednesday

October 9, 2018 20:41 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: The martyrs memorial A division league football tournament resumes from Wednesday. The tournament that began on September 29 had been halted for the Bangabandhu Gold Cup held in Bangladesh, where many players involved in the club represented their country.

KATHMANDU, Aug 3: Nepal Volleyball Association (NVA), in a bid to commercialize the national game, is organizing women’s volleyball league including franchise clubs starting this October. The league will be organized in coordination with Aadhi Awadhi Foundation of India. The government recognized volleyball as the national game of Nepal 14 months ago.

KATHMANDU, August 1: A Sabitra Bhandari inspired performance helped the departmental team Armed Police Force Club (APF) register a 3-1 victory over the other departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club in the league decider and clinch the Vice-president National Women’s League at the ANFA Complex in Satdobato on Tuesday. Bhandari scored a hat-trick for APF, who finished the league unbeaten.

KATHMANDU, July 23: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is organizing the Martyr’s Memorial A-Division League after a halt of five long years.

KATHMANDU, July 21: Lalitpur’s Omega Secondary School is set to organize the Rautahat Premier League (RPL) at the Sugar Mills Ground in Garuda, Rautahat from September 17 to 26.

KATHMANDU, July 8: Nepal all-rounder Sagar Pun who was roped in by the Malaysian Premier League outfit Kuala Lumpur has scored 66 runs to provide the team its first win in its inaugural match of the tournament on Saturday at Kuala Lumpur.

ENGAGE Empowering League ends

July 2, 2018 18:16 pm

KATHMANDU, July 2: The third edition of the Turkish Airlines ENGAGE Empowering League, the biggest adaptive sport competition in South Asia promoting disability rights through wheelchair basketball, ended on June 30 with reigning champion Wheelchair Sport Association, W.S.A. and Tribhuvan Army Club, T.A.C. reconfirming their superiority in the female and male categories respectively.

KATHMANDU, May 27: The departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club  has clinched the Ruslan Karnali Premier League title with a 37-run victory over Rupandehi XI on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, May 17: The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) unveiled on Wednesday the date to organize the country’s football backbone, ‘A’ Division National League, which has not been played for the past three years. The league will be held from September 29.

KATHMANDU, May 16: After several rounds of meetings with the participating clubs of the 'A' Division, the All Nepal Football Association's league committee slated Martyrs' Memorial 'A' Division League for September 20 to January 30.

Mohamed Salah has added yet another award to his glittering collection after the Liverpool star was named EA Sports' Premier League Player of the Season on Sunday.

DHANGADHI, May 9: Ruslan Dhangadhi Premier League (DPL) has put the total expenditure for the second season of the marquee cricket event at Rs 31.2 million. Organizing a press meet on Tuesday, Dhangadhi Cricket Academy (DCA) made public its income and expenditure details.

ROME, May 3: Liverpool reached the Champions League final after riding their luck to contain a fired-up AS Roma in a 4-2 defeat at the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday that sent them through 7-6 on aggregate.

MADRID, May 2: Holders Real Madrid reached the Champions League final for the third year in a row after Karim Benzema scored twice in a 2-2 draw with wasteful Bayern Munich on Tuesday to win their semi-final, second leg 4-3 on aggregate.

Two men from Rome were arrested by Merseyside Police on suspicion of attempted murder after a man was left with serious injuries following an incident ahead of Liverpool's 5-2 win over Roma at Anfield.

Liverpool want to sign Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak but will have to fork out €100million to meet his buyout clause, according to reports.

KATHMANDU, April 20: The All Nepal Football Players’ Association has expressed serious concern over the ongoing irregularities in Nepali football particularly by the postponement of General Assembly and election of the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA).

KATHMANDU, April 15: Team Chauraha Dhangadhi retained its title with a 21-run win over Kathmandu Goldens on Friday in the second edition of the Dhangadhi Premier League (DPL) played at the Seti Zone Police Cricket Ground in Dhangadhi.

LONDON, April 6: Heavyweights Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Lazio took big steps towards reaching the Europa League semi-finals after convincing home first-leg victories and RB Leipzig also stayed on course with a 1-0 win over Olympique de Marseille on Thursday.

April 2: Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp has vowed “there will be fire” when the Merseyside club faces Manchester City in Wednesday’s Champions League showdown, saying his team, at their best, are capable of defying the odds to reach the semi-finals.

KATHMANDU, April 1: Golden Gate International College has clinched the first Kwiks Men’s Basketball League title defeating the departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club by a score difference on Saturday.

ZURICH, March 27: Players who switch clubs during the course of a season will be allowed to play for both in the Champions League under new rules announced by UEFA on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, March 22: The Ruslan Dhangadhi Premier League has unveiled the tie-sheet for the second edition of the tournament amidst a program on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, March 16: TU College and DAV College have advanced into the final of the ongoing Golden Gate University Cricket Cup T20 Tournament on Friday.

KATHMANDU, March 15: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved the second edition of the Ruslan Dhangadhi Premier League (DPL), which had introduced franchise-based T20 event in Nepal, scheduled to start from March 31 in Dhangadhi.

LONDON, March 12: ARSENAL 3 WATFORD 0

KATHMANDU, March 3: Caribbean Premier League (CPL) outfit St. Kitts and Nevis has snapped up Nepali teenage sensation Sandeep Lamichhane for the 2018 season. The globe-trotting career for the 17-year-old continues as he will become first Nepali player to play in West Indies’ premier T20 event. He was signed up during the CPL auction in London for a fee of US$ 5,000 on Thursday in Round 13 of the draft pick.

Sandeep Lamichhane’s remarkable globe-trotting cricket career continued Thursday when he became the first Nepal player to be selected for the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 tournament.

LONDON, Feb 26: Pep Guardiola claimed his maiden English silverware as his side thrashed Arsenal 3-0 in the League Cup final with Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and David Silva all on target in a disappointingly one-sided showpiece on Sunday.

FEB 21: Argentina icon Lionel Messi denied Chelsea a famous victory with his first goal in nine matches against the Blues to hand Barcelona the edge in this engrossing UEFA Champions League round-of-16 opener.

Kwiks Basketball League from today

February 17, 2018 09:41 am

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Kwiks Basketball League, the country’s first ever club level home and away double league round-robin basketball tournament is kicking off today.

KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Nepal has won the toss and invited Kenya to bat first on its fourth match of the ICC World Cricket League Division Two on Monday. The match is played at Wanderers Cricket Stadium, Windhoek of Namibia.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Nepalaya International College is going to organize the College Premier League Cricket Tournament from February 13. Players under 19 years of age will be eligible to participate in the Twenty20 tournament, to be played in league cum knockout format.

LIVERPOOL, Feb 5: There couldn’t have been a more dramatic way for Harry Kane to bring up 100 goals in the Premier League.

LONDON, Jan 25: Arsenal fought back from a goal down against old foes Chelsea to reach the League Cup final as Granit Xhaka poked home to complete a 2-1 second-leg win on Wednesday that set up a Wembley showdown with Manchester City.

The justice league

January 12, 2018 08:33 am

Chief Justice Parajuli and some of his league were beyond offended when Dr KC used the words ‘mafia don’ to describe him.

LONDON, Jan 11: Chelsea missed a string of chances to draw 0-0 at home with Arsenal in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final on Wednesday as the video assistant referee (VAR) stoked the tension with two important interventions.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: Departmental team Armed Police Force (APF) has moved closer to win the title as it defeated the other departmental team, Tribhuvan Army Club (TAC), 2-1 in the ongoing 16th National Women’s Football League under the National Sports Council (NSC) championship on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 6: The second edition of the Everest Premier League (EPL) concluded on December 30, with Paras Khadka-led Biratnagar Warriors clinching the title by a run over Sharad Vesawakar’s Bhairahawa Gladiators at the TU Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.

Far-western books Super League place

January 5, 2018 09:30 am

KATHMANDU, Jan 5: Far-western Region on Thursday secured their Super League berth after a struggling 1-0 victory over Central in the ongoing 16th National Women’s Football League under the National Sports Council (NSC) Championship.

TAC, APF advance to Super League

January 4, 2018 07:29 am

KATHMANDU, Jan 4: Departmental teams Tribhuvan Army Club (TAC) and Armed Police Force (APF) on Wednesday secured their Super League places with respective wins in the ongoing 16th National Women’s Football League under the National Sports Council (NSC) Championship.

KATHMANDU, Jan 3: Departmental team Nepal Police Club (NPC) has continued its winning streak in the ongoing 16th National Women’s Football League under the National Sports Council (NSC) with a struggling 2-1 victory over Far-western Region on Tuesday. Central Region defeated Eastern Region by 4-0 on the same day.