The professional football clubs agreed to play next season’s Bangladesh Premier League in neutral venues only if the Bangladesh Football Federation provides Tk 10 lakh to each club every season.
The professional league committee, though, is yet to finalise the yearly football calendar and decided to meet again on Tuesday, the governing body informed after a meeting at the BFF House on Saturday.
Earlier, the BFF was planning to revoke the home-and-away basis competition and desired to set up the league in three different venues across the country.
Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong were initially selected as neutral venues for the country’s top flight football competition in the upcoming season.
‘Representatives of the league clubs agreed to play in neutral venues if we [BFF] assist them with extra financial support. We listened to their [clubs] demands and we will further discuss it on Tuesday in the emergency executive meeting,’ said Abu Nayeem Shohag, general secretary of the BFF.
Meanwhile, all the premier league clubs settled in principal to retain Arambagh Krira Sangha in the top-tier league next season but the professional league committee left the task of the decision-making on the hands of the executive committee.
The professional league committee also approved the final standings of the recently concluded Bangladesh Championship League where Uttar Baridhara and Chittagong Abahani officially confirmed their participation in next season’s premier leagueby virtue of being the champion and runners-up team respectively.
After the meeting, the committee imposed a binding obligation that ten of the players from U. Baridhara and C. Abahani cannot switch clubs in the forthcoming season.
-With New Age input
