Football

Former technical director for the Football Association of New Zealand, Paul Smalley, is set to arrive in mid-August to take charge of the Bangladesh Football Federation’s director of technical and strategy, said the BFF on Tuesday. Smalley, who was recommended by FIFA for the job, was supposed to arrive in Dhaka on Monday but he delayed ... Read more

Four-time champions Abahani Limited registered their second win of the Bangladesh Premier League when they beat Team BJMC 1-0 at the MA Aziz Stadium on Tuesday. English forward Lee Andrew Tuck scored the all important goal in the 32nd minute to propel the Sky-Blues to joint top of the points table along with

Title aspirants Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra’s terrible run in the Bangladesh Premier League continued when they lost their third consecutive match of the league to hosts Chittagong Abahani by 1-2 goals in Chittagong on Monday. With the win, the port-city outfits have now seven points from three matches while Russell were still in search for

Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet left Dhaka at early hour on Sunday without signing formal agreement with the Bangladesh Football Federation, leaving his position as the head coach of Bangladesh national team uncertain. Saintfiet had earlier informed the BFF that he would go home for two weeks to be with his family and federation was hoping

Both Dhaka Abahani Limited and Chittagong Abahani tasted their first success in the Bangladesh Premier League winning their respective matches at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong on Friday. Dhaka Abahani edged past Feni Soccer Club 1-0 before hosts Chittagong Abahani thrashed Mohammedan Sporting Club by 4-2 goals in an entertaining second match of the ... Read more

Title aspirants Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra suffered their second successive defeat of the Bangladesh Premier League on Thursday as they were shocked by Rahmatganj Muslim Friends Society by 2-0 at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong on Thursday. Still smarting from their 0-1 defeat to newcomers Uttar Baridhara in their opening match, Russell dominated

Bangladesh national football team’s Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet has apparently backed out from signing his formal agreement with the Bangladesh Football Federation in order to explore his possibilities of taking the charge of Nigeria national team. Saintfiet was scheduled to sign the agreement on Wednesday but the BFF had to postpone the event abruptly as

pset was the order of the day as JB Group Bangladesh Premier League got underway in Chittagong on Sunday with Arambagh Krira Sangha holding defending champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club to 1-1 draw and Uttar Baridhara posting a 1-0 win over Sheikh Russell KC. Mohammad Abdullah, the in-form winger, struck the equaliser in the stoppage time

The Bangladesh football Federation on Saturday extended the time for reigning Bangladesh Premier League champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club to pay all their due money that some clubs owe to them after the last season’s players’ transfer window. The news came hours before the ninth edition of the BPL, which gets underway in Chittagong today, with

The Bangladesh Football Federation has agreed to pay the unpaid salary worth $50,000 (Tk 39.38 lakh approximately) to the former national team’s assistant coach Rene Koster, after the Dutchman lodged an appeal to FIFA, said BFF officials on Saturday. Earlier, the BFF refused to pay the three-month salary of the Dutch coach when he left the ... Read more

US born Bangladeshi triplet is in city hoping to seal their place in the final squad of the Bangladesh Under-16 women’s football team ahead of the AFC Women’s Under-16 Championship qualifiers. The championship is scheduled to be held in Dhaka from August 27 to September 5. The sisters — Meleni Apurba Rahaman, Melenia Apurba Rahaman

Languid BFF shows mismanagement The Bangladesh Football Federation finally released the partial fixture of Bangladesh Premier League on Thursday but not before the some drama behind the curtains. With only 48 hours to go before the league starts, BFF struggled to decide how many rounds will be held in the opening phase in Chittagong.

Bangladesh Football Federation is planning to play an international friendly match against Maldives in September 1 in Male as part of their preparation ahead of their Asian Cup qualifying home play-off match against Bhutan on September 6. BFF said they are making a discussion with Maldives Football Federation who primarily agreed to host Bangladesh. ‘We have

Reigning Bangladesh Premier League champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club on Monday sacked their head coach Shafiqul Islam Manik to facilitate the reappointment of Nigerian coach Joseph Afusi. Afusi left the club after helping Jamal to win last season’s Premier League title and Bhutan’s Kings Cup as well as guided the Dhanmondi-based outfit to become

National football team’s Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet expressed his satisfaction after a six-day long training camp with the 28-member preliminary squad as he believed he had received enough information about the players. The new coach conducted the camp to select the national team ahead of Bangladesh’s Asian Cup Qualifying Play-offs against Bhutan, scheduled

Abahani Limited, the most successful club in the professional league history of Bangladesh, is determined to win the forthcoming Bangladesh Premier League, scheduled to start on July 24 in Chittagong. Abahani, the Federation Cup champions, claimed that they have the ability to win the prestigious title after a three-year gap and win their fifth title ... Read more

Bangladesh Football Federation on Sunday omitted Rajshahi, Barishal and Gopalgonj as venues of the forthcoming JB Group Bangladesh Premier League considering following the demand of the clubs. With the decision the ninth edition of BPL, which will start from July 24, will be held in four venues- Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Mymenshing, instead of seven.

Cash-rich Chittagong Abahani will be eager to put their Federation Cup debacle behind them by lifting the forthcoming Bangladesh Premier League title, which gets underway on July 24. Slovakian coach Jozev Pavlik brought the port-city outfits their maiden top-tier title by winning the Independence Cup with a comparatively weakened side after some

Jafar Iqbal and Mohammad Abdullah Parvej, two youngsters, who were plying their trade in the third division football league a year ago, may fulfill their wildest of dreams of featuring in the Bangladesh national team in a month’s time. Both the players, who played a pivotal role in Arambagh Krira Sangha’s fairytale run in this season’s ... Read more

FIFA agreed to compensate Tk 1.8 lakh to Abahani Limited midfielder Atiqur Rahman Fahad, who sustained a meniscus injury during Bangladesh national football team’s World Cup qualifying match against Jordan on March 24 this year. Fahad, who remained out of the field for the last three months, will get the benefit from the world football governing ... Read more