The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has decided to resume the National Football Championship in December after a four-year gap as the reshuffled competition committee sat for the first time at the BFF House yesterday.
The meeting decided to invite all 64 districts, services teams and public universities in the championship, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla National Football Championship, which will get underway in the last week of December. It was decided that the entries of the participating teams would have to reach to the competition committee by October 31.
Before the National Championship, the committee also decided to hold the JFA Cup U-15 football tournament in mid November as the Japan Football Association is seemingly unhappy with the football governing body, who spent a U-15 budget of $25,000 provided by the Japan Football Association for the youth development.
The committee headed by BFF vice president Manjur Hossain Malu also decided to resume the Suhrawardi Cup (youth) from next season across the country.
“Apart from those competitions, we are also planning to introduce a new tournament named BFF Cup with the involvement of all districts as the competition committee wants to keep all District Football Associations busy around the year,” said Malu after the meeting.
“We will place the proposal to the BFF executive committee and the inclusion of a new tournament in the calendar depends on the approval of the executive committee,” said Malu, who has been appointed competition committee chairman in place of Harunur Rashid.
