LAHORE, May 25: The International Football Federation (FIFA) has appointed Nyim Keong Yap of Malaysia as the Match Commissioner of the Pakistan-Qatar Group A Olympic qualifier which is scheduled to be played on June 6 at Doha's Al-Gharrafa's Stadium.

Pakistan is one of the two South Asian teams appearing in the ongoing qualifiers alongwith India. It will be the fourth ever clash between Under-21 teams of the two nations.

The match in the 25,000-seater main stadium will kick off at 9.00p.m (PST).

FIFA also named three Iranian referees to supervise the match. Torky Mohsen will supervise the match as match referee while Safiri Esmaeil and Kamranifar Hassan will act as assistant referee and fourth Official respectively. —APP

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