{"id":48889,"date":"2026-06-03T21:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48889"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:24:41","slug":"saff-championship-nepal-out-of-the-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/saff-championship-nepal-out-of-the-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFF Championship: Nepal out of the semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Goa (India), June 3: Nepal has failed to qualify for the finals of the SAFF women&#8217;s football Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-final match held earlier today at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Nepal lost to Bangladesh by 1-2 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal had taken the lead with Geeta Rana making the first strike in the opponent goal in the 23rd minute of the match. Geeta converted a corner kick from Deepa Shahi.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bangladesh leveled the score in extra time of the first half. Ritu Porna Chakma made it 1-1 just at half time.<\/p>\n<p>In the similar fashion, Bangladesh&#8217;s Sagorika, who came on as a subsistute, scored again in the extra time of the second half to give her team a famous victory, and a place in the final of the championship.<br \/>\nThis is the second time that Nepal has been knocked out of the semi-finals in the championship that began in 2010. Earlier, Nepal lost to India in the semi-finals of the SAFF Championship held in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa (India), June 3: Nepal has failed to qualify for the finals of the SAFF women&#8217;s football Championship. In the semi-final match held earlier today at the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Nepal lost to Bangladesh by 1-2 goals. Nepal had taken the lead with Geeta Rana making the first strike in the opponent goal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889"}],"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=48889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48891,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions\/48891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}