Afghanistan national bandy team

Afghanistan national bandy team has been set up by bandy playing Afghan ex-pats in Karlstad, Sweden, taking up a sport which is very popular in Sweden.

The team is not sanctioned by the sports governing bodies in Afghanistan, even if the Federation of International Bandy has accepted Afghanistan as a member, so it is not allowed to take part in the World Championship. However, it has played friendlies against the Somalia national bandy team (which also is based in Sweden) in 2016 and 2017.[1]

Sources

somaliabandy.com: "Vinst mot Afghanistan", januari 24, 2017 Archived 2018-01-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish), read July 10, 2017

National sports teams of Afghanistan
Bandy Baseball Basketball M W 3x3 Beach soccer Cricket M W U19 Field hockey Football M U23 U20 U17 W Futsal Handball Rugby sevens Volleyball M W
Olympics Paralympics Deaflympics Asian Games

National bandy teams

Men's

Active	Afghanistan Belarus Canada China Czech Republic Estonia Finland Germany Great Britain Hungary Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Mongolia Netherlands Norway Russia Slovakia Somalia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States
Defunct	Austria-Hungary Belgium Commonwealth of Independent States England France Italy Soviet Union

Women's

Active	Canada China England Estonia Finland Hungary Japan Norway Russia Sweden Switzerland United States
Defunct	Soviet Union

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