LAHORE, June 23: Six-time National Champions Wapda will take on Nepal Police Club (NPC) in the fourth AFC President’s Cup qualifiers (Group-A) at the MBPJ Stadium in Selangor on Tuesday.

Group ‘A’ matches were originally scheduled to be played in April at the Dashrath Stadium in Kathmandu but an alternative venue had to be found after Nepal withdrew as hosts due to the political situation in the country.

Teams:

NEPAL POLICE CLUB: Kthapa Ritesh, Magar Mukunda Thapa, Shrestha Bishal, Shrestha Rakesh, Rai Lil Bahadur, Paudel Dipendra, Paudel Dipak, Shrestha Rabin, Subedi Suman, Pandey Parbat, Rai Ramesh Kumar, Shrestha Kunjan, Silwal Bhola Nath, Ghimire Chetan, Karki Roshan, Budhathoki Ramesh, Rijal Arjun, Thapa Anant Raj, Rai Ju Manu.

WAPDA: Abdul Aziz, Luqman Rashid, Jamshed Anwar, Tanveer Ahmed, Naveed Akram, Dilshad Ali, Adeel Riaz, Zeeshan Aslam, Akram Masih, Mehmood Ali, Yasir Iqbal, Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Shahid, Imran Niazi, Qamar Zaman, Khuda Bakhsh, Arif Mehmood, Zulfiqar Ali Shah.—PPI

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