Their men's team traveled to India three years later and took part in 18 games of which 8 were won, 9 lost and 1 tied.

In 1948, the Afghanistan Football Federation joined FIFA and sent a men's national team to the UK to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

From 1974 to 1979, an international football tournament named Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup, was organized in the country, in which multiple foreign teams participated.

The Afghanistan women's national football team has taken refuge in Australia and keeps training and playing regularly,[5] while a development squad is based in the UK.

They have also finished runner-up of the same event in 2011 and 2015 and fourth at the Asian Games 1951 and the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup.