The Pakistan Football Federation initially planned to hold the first ever National Futsal Championship in December 2010,[6] though the event was then postponed to July 2011 and eventually canceled altogether.[7]
Several Pakistani teams participated in the Neymar Jr's 5 tournament in Brazil, including Peshawar's Ghosts FC in 2016[8] and the Chitral futsal club Highlanders FC in 2017.[9][10]
In 2016, the Pakistan Soccer Futsal Federation sent an under-17 team to a tournament in Scotland.[11] In February 2018, the Pakistan Soccer Futsal Federation organised the International Futsal Cup at the Liaquat Gymnasium in Islamabad with a field composed of foreign teams from Brazil, Turkey, Nepal, Afghanistan in addition to two local teams, the Pakistan Greens and Pakistan Whites.[12] The Brazilian team won the final defeating Pakistan by 12-1.[13][5] The same year, the Pakistan Soccer Futsal Federation also intended to host the Asian Futsal Championship.[14][15]
By the early 2020s, the Pakistan Football Federation had yet to succeed in organising futsal at national level, despite the efforts of local clubs and departments to create separate five-a-side teams.[16][1]
In 2023, the Pakistan Football Federation launched the National Futsal Cup, the first nationwide futsal competition organised under its authority. The event was structured as a five-phase regional circuit, with separate tournaments for men and women held in Lahore, Quetta, Islamabad, Peshawar, and Karachi. Each regional phase crowned its own champions, SA Gardens (men) and MRF (women) in Lahore,[17] Hazara Quetta FC (men) and Hazara Quetta FA (women) in Quetta,[18] Team Eighteen (men) and Smurfs (women) in Islamabad,[19] and Forza FC (men) and Karachi City (women) in Karachi.[20] The PFF had announced that top teams from each phase would later compete in a National Futsal Championship to determine the overall champions. However, that final stage was never held, and the competition effectively ended after the Karachi phase in April 2024.[21][22]
In January 2025, the Pakistan Football Federation intended to send the first ever women national futsal team to the 2025 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup qualification but later withdrew due to financial constraints.[23] The same year however, the men's Pakistan national futsal team debuted at the 2026 AFC Futsal Asian Cup qualification in October 2025.[24][25]
