Wohaib FC
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Hafiz Wohaib Butt Memorial Football Club or simply Wohaib FC are a football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
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 club playing in the Pakistan Premier League
Pakistan Premier League
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. The club is based in the city of Lahore
Lahore
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.

Under the chairmanship of former international defender, ex-Pakistan Football Federation
Pakistan Football Federation
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 (PFF) official and Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
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 (MNA), Hafiz Salman Butt, the club was formed in December 1982 in memory of his younger brother. It is the only club from Pakistan to have qualified for the Asian Club Championship group stage in 1992, they were hammered 10-0 by Al Wasl FC
Al Wasl FC
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, but drew 1-1 to eventual runners-up PAS Tehran F.C.

Wohaib FC was among the first privately-operated football teams in Pakistan as well as being a founding member club of the Pakistan Premier League
Pakistan Premier League
The Pakistan Premier League is the first division of Pakistani football. It was established in 2004, in place of the National Championship by the Pakistan Football Federation.-Origins:...

 back in 2004. The club has a good youth system that has in recent years provided player for Pakistani youth teams at various age groups as well winning many national youth competitions in the past.

Despite being a privately-funded club, Wohaib FC is not as organised as some of government-operated department sports teams. In the 2006/07 PPL season
Pakistan Premier League 2006-07
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, Wohaib FC narrowly missed out on being relegated after finishing just one point above the relegated HBL
HBL FC
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. In the 2007/08 season, they were relegated after losing 8 players to other clubs and internal destabilisation.

Performance in AFC competitions

  • Asian Club Championship: 1 appearance
1993: Group Stage

Current squad

Zahid Nadeem (c), Nadeem Hussain, Asif Naeem, Muhammad Salman, Jabran Bin Salman, Muhammad Saqib, Bilal Abbasi, Zulqarnain Irshad, Bahadur Ali Hussain, Fouad Nisar, Mudasar Hussain, Hassan Bin Salman, Muhammad Mazhar Yaseen, Shahbaz Hussain, Muhammad Saeb Ashraf, H.R. Muhammad Noman,Usman Ishfaq, Muddasar Saeed, Hafez Ahmed Nisar, Usman Ali, Sohaib Ali,M.Talha Muneer, Ghazanfar Yaseen, Muhammad Qasim, Hafiz Mohsin Younis Khan, Niaz Muhammad, Bilal Akram, Raheel Ahmad, Muhammad Rameez Rasheed, Saeed Ahmed, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Idrees, Asim Ashraf, Ali Raza,
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