Al Nassr Women — Cska Pomir Dushanbe Women, AFC Women's Champions League

Al-Nassr Women claimed a 12-0 victory over CSKA-Pamir Dushanbe Women in the preliminary round of the AFC Women's Champions League on 23 August 2026. The result settled any lingering questions about which side would progress at this stage. By then, the gap in quality between the two teams had become impossible to miss. The hosts came into the fixture with mixed recent form. They had drawn 1-1 with Bam Khatoon Women just three days earlier and gone goal-for-goal with Etihad Club Women before that. To be fair, those results suggested they were not operating at full strength yet. CSKA-Pamir arrived on a run of defeats that told their own story. A 1-5 loss to Etihad Club and a 0-3 hammering from Bam Khatoon in their previous two outings left little room for optimism. And here's the thing — when you stack those results against a side that has scored six goals against the Police Armed Forces, the outcome was never in doubt. The preliminary stage rarely produces drama, but this match was a statement of intent from Al-Nassr. Their five-goal win over Al-Ula in April showed what they are capable of when they find their rhythm. CSKA-Pamir's visitors in this fixture had nothing to lose and everything to prove, but the scoreline spoke louder than any pre-match rhetoric. The final tally of 12-0 left CSKA-Pamir with a mountain to climb in terms of confidence and results. Al-Nassr now sit on the right side of the preliminary stage with momentum behind them. By then, the question shifted from whether they could win to how convincingly they would do so.