[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":111},["ShallowReactive",2],{"country-en-nepal":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"country_code":99,"description":100,"extension":101,"federation":102,"flag":103,"lastUpdated":104,"meta":105,"navigation":106,"path":107,"region":102,"seo":108,"stem":109,"__hash__":110},"countries\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Fnepal.md","Pétanque in Nepal",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":92},"minimark",[9,13,30,35,59,74,78,85,89],[10,11,5],"h1",{"id":12},"pétanque-in-nepal",[14,15,16,17,21,22,25,26,29],"p",{},"Pétanque in Nepal is organized, at least on paper, by the ",[18,19,20],"strong",{},"Pétanque Fédération népalaise (PFN)",", also referred to as the Petanque Federation Nepal, domiciled in Kathmandu. Two independent sources - a 2015 announcement from the Fédération Internationale de Sport Boules (FIB) and the federation's own listing on petanque-world.com - corroborate the same core facts: the federation was created in ",[18,23,24],{},"August 2012",", and its president is ",[18,27,28],{},"Dr. Devkant Joshi",".",[31,32,34],"h2",{"id":33},"founding-and-affiliation","Founding and Affiliation",[14,36,37,38,42,43,46,47,52,53,29],{},"FIB's announcement, published 15 May 2015, describes the PFN as a newly affiliated federation \"à la Lyonnaise\" - meaning its affiliation with FIB specifically covers ",[39,40,41],"em",{},"jeu Provençal \u002F boule lyonnaise",", a related but distinct boules discipline from pétanque, even though the federation's own name uses \"Pétanque.\" FIB describes Dr. Joshi as a well-known senior educator and public figure in Nepal with a track record of sports administration responsibilities, and states the federation's mission as promoting ",[39,44,45],{},"boules"," in all its forms. At the time of the announcement, the federation intended to send a delegation to the FIB world championships in Casablanca (",[48,49,51],"a",{"href":50},"\u002Fcountries\u002Fmorocco","Morocco",") and Rijeka (Croatia) and to launch a development and training program for boule lyonnaise in Nepal. The announcement lists a contact email, ",[18,54,55],{},[48,56,58],{"href":57},"mailto:petanquenepal@gmail.com","petanquenepal@gmail.com",[14,60,61,62,65,66,69,70,73],{},"Separately, petanque-world.com's own federation listing for Nepal - an independent platform not affiliated with FIB - names the organization \"Nepal Petanque Federation,\" lists the same president (given there as ",[18,63,64],{},"Devkant Joshi",") and the same 2012 founding date, and gives a postal address of ",[18,67,68],{},"GPO Box 4081, Kathmandu"," with phone number ",[18,71,72],{},"+977-1-4302703",", plus a link to a federation Facebook profile. The consistency of the president's name and founding year across these two unrelated sources gives reasonable confidence in the federation's basic identity, even though details about its current activity are thin.",[31,75,77],{"id":76},"current-activity","Current Activity",[14,79,80,81,84],{},"Both petanque-world.com and a search of petanque-generation.fr's international competition listings turned up ",[18,82,83],{},"no currently registered clubs, no listed players, and no documented competitions"," for Nepal. This is consistent with a federation that formalized its affiliation more than a decade ago but has not built out a public competitive record since, similar to several other small national federations profiled on this site. We found no evidence of Nepal fielding a team at an Asian or World Pétanque Championship, and no news coverage of domestic tournaments or club activity in Kathmandu, Pokhara, or elsewhere in the country.",[31,86,88],{"id":87},"what-we-could-not-verify","What We Could Not Verify",[14,90,91],{},"We could not confirm whether the PFN is still active as of 2026, whether Dr. Joshi remains its president, or whether any boule-lyonnaise or pétanque play currently takes place in Nepal beyond the federation's formal existence. The federation's Facebook profile could not be independently verified with a working link. This profile will be updated if a more recent, dedicated source documenting active clubs or competitions in Nepal surfaces.",{"title":93,"searchDepth":94,"depth":94,"links":95},"",2,[96,97,98],{"id":33,"depth":94,"text":34},{"id":76,"depth":94,"text":77},{"id":87,"depth":94,"text":88},"NP","The Petanque Federation Nepal was founded in Kathmandu in August 2012 under president Devkant Joshi, though no active clubs or competitions are yet publicly documented.","md",null,"🇳🇵","2026-09-07",{},true,"\u002Fcountries\u002Fen\u002Fnepal",{"title":5,"description":100},"countries\u002Fen\u002Fnepal","HPvqBOEW3ImVsr41BSS4LMTymMp5KPuTjXHQNnKAKpA",1790080175197]