Afghan women have a football league of their own

An Afghan female football player of Kabul team (C) vies for the ball with her Herat opponent (L) in the final match at the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) stadium in Kabul on October 3, 2014. The stands were almost empty at Afghanistan's first women's football league final, but those supporters who did turn up were determined to mark the occasion with noisy chants and cheers as Kabul came out 5-1 winners. The women's four-team league was a ground-breaking tournament in Afghanistan, and was held in parallel with the Afghan Premier League (APL), a competitive and well-established men's event now in its third year. AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR

Small crowd, big hopes for Afghan women’s football league

The final scoreline read Kabul 5 - Herat 1, but for the players and noisy supporters who cheered them on, women's football was the biggest winner at the climax of Afghanistan's first female sport's league.