{"id":48401,"date":"2026-05-25T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48401"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:04:42","slug":"nepal-begin-saff-womens-championship-campaign-with-victory-over-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-begin-saff-womens-championship-campaign-with-victory-over-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal begin SAFF Women\u2019s Championship campaign with victory over Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, May 25:<\/strong> Nepal kicked off their campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over in the tournament\u2019s opening match on Monday evening, boosting their hopes of reaching the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>In the Group \u2018A\u2019 encounter held at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Geeta Rana scored the decisive goal for Nepal in the 23rd minute of the first half. Her effort took a deflection off a Bhutan defender before finding the back of the net, ultimately sealing all three points for Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal also handed debut appearances to Anita Lamjel and Birshana Chaudhary during the match.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Nepal collected three points from their opening game. Hosts are set to face the in the other Group \u2018A\u2019 fixture later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 25: Nepal kicked off their campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over in the tournament\u2019s opening match on Monday evening, boosting their hopes of reaching the semifinals. In the Group \u2018A\u2019 encounter held at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Geeta Rana scored the decisive goal for Nepal in the 23rd minute of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48405,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48401\/revisions\/48405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}