2005 National Challenge Cup
football tournament season
The 2005 National Challenge Cup was the 17th season of National Challenge Cup, the main cup tournament in Pakistani football.
PTCL won the cup, although their team was dissolved in the end of 2005 season.
Background
The Pakistan Football Federation under new elected body headed by president Faisal Saleh Hayat abolished the President's PFF Cup along with the National Football Championship in 2004, as part of a league-first restructuring. In 2005 the federation launched the National Challenge Cup, often promoted in contemporary reports as an inaugural tournament, although it effectively represented a rebranded continuation of the earlier President’s PFF Cup. In contrary to the departments-only format of the former President PFF Cup, the restructured Challenge Cup briefly admitted club sides in the preliminary stage before the seeded departments entered later rounds.
Ahead of the event, the federation announced a format with five pre-seeded teams, WAPDA, KRL, Army, KPT and NBP, entering directly at the second stage. The tournament was scheduled to kick off on 1 June, featuring 27 phase-one teams, a prize purse of Rs1 million, and matches staged in Peshawar, Wah, Lahore, Faisalabad, Karachi and Quetta.
During the competition the second-stage venues were shifted, with Group I matches moved to Faisalabad and Group II to Rawalpindi’s Army Stadium.
PTCL won the cup in August 2005, with striker Adeel Ahmed finishing as leading scorer. The final at Rawalpindi Army Sports Complex was held under floodlights, with PFF president Faisal Saleh Hayat as chief guest.
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