Balochistan United (blue) in action against Young Rising Stars. -APP (file photo)

LAHORE Balochistan United's front-runner Riffat Mehdi once again proved herself as the best woman soccer player of the country by becoming the leading scorer in the second National Women Football Club Championship.

 

Riffat now has the distinction of being the top scorer in both versions of domestic women's soccer — the National Women Football Championship and the National Women Football Club Championship.

 

Slamming 22 goals in the National Women Championship last year, she has scored 21 goals, setting a new record in the ongoing club championship, overtaking the 15 scored by Shabana Kausar of WP Club last year.

 

She has the honour of scoring the lone goal for Pakistan at the Amman International Women's Futsal Championship in May 2006.

 

Goal scorers of the 2nd National Womens Club Championship

 

21 Goals Riffat Mehdi (Balochistan United)

 

9 Marium Laghari (Diya)

 

7 Ayesha Hassan (SSWC)

 

6 Shaista (Balochistan United)

 

5 Khair Un Nisa (Balochistan United), Eilya Mohsin (LUMS)

 

4 Shahlyla Irfan (Balochistan United), Urooj Hussain (Diya), Sahar Zaman (YRS Pindi), Nadia Hashim (Suzuki)

3 Fehmida (Balochistan United), Ayesha Naeem (Frontier), Malaika Noor, Sana Mahmood (YRS Pindi)

2 Gulsina (Chiltan), Afshan Altaf (Diya), Saima (Fatima), Ishrat Fatima, Shagufta Akhter, Saima Akhter (SSWC), Zara Kiyani, Asmara Habib, OG (YRS Pindi)

 

1 Sohaila Irfan, Shazia, OG (Balochistan United), Afshan, Musarrat, Sonam Georg (Quetta Junior), Fatima, Shazia Khatak, Razia, Rizwana, Zeba (Rasko), Amina Jamal, Uraba (Roshni), Khadija Kazmi, Hina Javed, Arosa (Diya), Anjum Hayat, Fatima Hannan (LUMS), Naima Tufail (Fatima), Naima Mukhtar, Hira (SSWC), Rabia Zaman (Frontier), Sana Gul (YRS Pindi), Yasmeen, Fatima (Suzuki)

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