2019 PFF National Challenge Cup

The 2019 PFF National Challenge Cup was the 28th edition of domestic association football cup competition in Pakistan. 15 teams participated in the competition, commencing from 19 July and concluding on 4 August 2019. The competition was held in Peshawar, with Tehmas Khan Football Stadium and Qayyum Football Stadium hosting all the matches. Pakistan Army defeated Sui Southern Gas by 3-2 to win their third title.^[2]

2019 PFF National Challenge Cup

Tournament details
Country	Pakistan
City	Peshawar
Venue(s)	Tehmas Khan Football Stadium Qayyum Stadium
Dates	19 July 2019 – 4 August 2019[1]
Teams	15
Defending champions	Pakistan Air Force
Final positions
Champions	Pakistan Army (3rd title)
Runners-up	Sui Southern Gas
Third place	Khan Research Laboratories
Fourth place	WAPDA
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	74 (2.55 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Muhammad Waheed (7 goals)
Awards
Best player	Saadullah Khan (SSGC)
Best goalkeeper	Ahmed Manzoor (Pakistan Army)
← 2018 2020 → All statistics correct as of August 4, 2019.

Teams

The following 15 teams participated in the tournament:^[2]

• Khan Research Laboratories (PPL)
• Pakistan Airforce (TH)
• PFF Tigers
• Asia Ghee Mills
• Civil Aviation Authority
• Karachi Port Trust
• Karachi United
• National Bank
• Pakistan Army
• Pakistan Navy
• Pakistan Police
• Pakistan Railways
• Pakistan Television
• Sui Southern Gas
• WAPDA

Notes

TH = Challenge Cup title holders; PPL = Pakistan Premier League winners

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan Air Force	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Advance to Knockout round
2	Pakistan Police	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
3	National Bank	3	1	1	1	4	6	−2	4
4	Asia Ghee Mills	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0

Updated to match(es) played on 26 July 2019. Source: GSA

Pakistan Air Force	4–0	Asia Ghee Mills
Irfan Ali 45' Mansoor 59' (pen.), 67' M. Faisal Yaseen 61'	Report

19 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Attendance: 500

National Bank	2–2	Pakistan Police
Basit Ali 42' Maqbool 67'	Report	Tariq 28', 53'

20 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Pakistan Air Force	2–0	Pakistan Police
Ali Raza 64', 84'	Report

23 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

National Bank	2–0	Asia Ghee Mills
Maqbool 20' Sher Ali 88'	Report

23 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Attendance: 200

Pakistan Police	5–0	Asia Ghee Mills
	Report	Jamil 31' M. Hanif 49' Yousaf Ali 75', 80' Nabeel 87'

26 July 2019

17:00 PST

Qayyum Football Stadium, Peshawar

National Bank	0–3	Pakistan Air Force
	Report	Sohail Jr. 47' M. Faisal Yaseen 90+3' Mansoor 90+4'

26 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sui Southern Gas	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4	Advance to Knockout round
2	Pakistan Navy	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
3	Pakistan Television	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Updated to match(es) played on 28 July 2019. Source: GSA

Pakistan Navy	2–0	Pakistan Television
Awais Gul 66' Abdurl Rehman 89'	Report

21 July 2019

23:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Sui Southern Gas	1–1	Pakistan Television
Zain-ul-Abden 58'	Report	Adnan Khan 41'

25 July 2019

17:15 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Sui Southern Gas	2–1	Pakistan Navy
Saadullah 10' Zakir Lashari 39'	Report	Farhaullah 73'

25 July 2019

17:00PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan Army	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Advance to Knockout round
2	Civil Aviation Authority	3	1	2	0	8	2	+6	5
3	PFF Tigers	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
4	Pakistan Railways	3	0	1	2	1	8	−7	1

Updated to match(es) played on 25 July 2019. Source: GSA

Pakistan Army	1–0	PFF Tigers
M. Jamil 90'	Report

22 July 2019

17:15 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Attendance: 500

Civil Aviation Authority	6–0	Pakistan Railways
Muhammad Waheed 4', 45+5', 60', 71', 78', 79'	Report

22 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Attendance: 700

PFF Tigers	0–0	Civil Aviation Authority
	Report

25 July 2019

20:00 PST

Qayyum Football Stadium, Peshawar

Pakistan Army	1–0	Pakistan Railways
Ali Raza 9'	Report

26 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Civil Aviation Authority	2–2	Pakistan Army
Shakeel Ahmed 6' Muhammad Waheed 62'	Report	M. Nasir 31', 51'

28 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Pakistan Railways	1–1	PFF Tigers
M. Saleem 90+2'	Report	Naik Alam 13'

28 July 2019

17:00 PST

Qayyum Football Stadium, Peshawar

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Khan Research Laboratories	3	2	1	0	8	0	+8	7	Advance to Knockout round
2	WAPDA	3	2	1	0	5	0	+5	7
3	Karachi Port Trust	3	1	0	2	1	8	−7	3
4	Karachi United	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Updated to match(es) played on 24 July 2019. Source: GSA

Khan Research Laboratories	3–0	Karachi United
Izharullah 29' Iftikhar A. Khan 41' Umair Ali 90+1'	Report

20 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

WAPDA	3–0	Karachi Port Trust
Zubair Qadeer 10' Ashfaquddin 23' Adnan Saeed 57'	Report

21 July 2019

20:15 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

WAPDA	2–0	Karachi United
Zubair Qadeer 18' Ashfaquddin 78'	Report

24 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Khan Research Laboratories	5–0	Karachi Port Trust
Arslan Ali 17' Izharullah 29' Iftikhar A. Khan 39' Imran Khan 65' Umair Ali 83'	Report

24 July 2019

17:15 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Khan Research Laboratories	0–0	WAPDA
	Report

27 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Karachi Port Trust	1–0	Karachi United
Fareed Ahmed 21'	Report

27 July 2019

17:00 PST

Qayyum Football Stadium, Peshawar

Knockout round

Quarter-finals

Pakistan Air Force	0–3	WAPDA
	Report	Usman Manzoor 29' Ashfaquddin 32', 75'

29 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Sui Southern Gas	1–0	Civil Aviation Authority
Habib-ur-Rehman 34'	Report

30 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Khan Research Laboratories	6–1	Pakistan Police
Umair Ali 1', 44', 87' Zaid Umer 53' Imran Khan 59' Zeeshan Siddiqui 80'	Report	M. Yousaf 40'

31 July 2019

17:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Pakistan Army	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Pakistan Navy
Abbas 101' Zil Hasnain 113'	Report

31 July 2019

20:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Attendance: 2,000

Semi-finals

WAPDA	0–1	Sui Southern Gas
		Hussain 23'

1 August 2019

18:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Khan Research Laboratories	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Pakistan Army
	Report
Penalties
Umair Ali Iftikhar A. Khan Shahid Ghulam Fareed	1–3	Nisar Ahmed Najeeb-ur-Rehman M. Jamil

2 August 2019

18:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Third place

WAPDA	0–1	Khan Research Laboratories
	Report	Umair Ali 90'

3 August 2019

21:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Final

Main article: 2019 PFF National Challenge Cup final

Details

Sui Southern Gas	2–3	Pakistan Army
Saadullah 41' M. Tahir 52'	Report	Abbas 67', 75' Ali Raza 77'

4 August 2019

21:00 PST

Tehmas Khan Football Stadium, Peshawar

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	29 July – 15:00
	Pakistan Air Force	0
					1 August – 18:00
	WAPDA	3
					WAPDA	0
	30 July – 20:00
					Sui Southern Gas	1
	Sui Southern Gas	1
									4 August – 21:00
	Civil Aviation Authority	0
									Sui Southern Gas	2
	31 July – 17:00
									Pakistan Army	3
	Khan Research Laboratories	6
					2 August – 18:00
	Pakistan Police	1
					Khan Research Laboratories	0 (1)
	31 July – 20:00
					Pakistan Army (a.e.t.)(P)	0 (3)			Third place
	Pakistan Army (a.e.t.)	2
									3 August – 21:00
	Pakistan Navy	0
									WAPDA	0
									Khan Research Laboratories	1

Statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 4 August 2019^[3]

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Muhammad Waheed	Civil Aviation Authority	7
2	Umair Ali	Khan Research Laboratories	6
3	Ashfaqquddin Babar	WAPDA	4
4	Mansoor Khan	Pakistan Air Force	3
5	Ali Raza	Pakistan Air Force	2
	Muhammad Tariq	Pakistan Police
	Iftikhar Ali Khan	Khan Research Laboratories
	Izharullah Khan	Khan Research Laboratories
	Muhammad Nasir	Pakistan Army
	Ali Raza	Pakistan Army

Clean Sheets

As of 4 August 2019

Rank	Player	Team	C
1	Abdul Basit	WAPDA	4
	Nasrullah	Khan Research Laboratories	4
2	Ghanzafar Yaseen	Pakistan Air Force	3
3	Saqib Hanif	Sui Southern Gas Company	2
4	Murad Khan	PFF Tigers	1
	Shehroz Ahmed	Pakistan Navy	1
	Ahmed Manzoor	Pakistan Army	1
	Sameer Ahmed	Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority	1

Awards

As of 4 August 2019

Award	Player	Club
Top Scorer	Muhammad Waheed	Civil Aviation Authority
Most Valuable Player	Saadullah Khan	Sui Southern Gas
Best Goalkeeper	Ahmed Manzoor	Pakistan Army
Fair Play	—	Pakistan Air Force