Football

Popular giants Mohammedan Sporting Club set to disappoint their fans again as the inter-club players’ transfer window for the impending 2014-15 football season opens today. Mohammedan never tasted the title of the Bangladesh Premier League and it seems the drought is unlikely to be end in this season too. The traditional Black

The first batch students of country’s first ever football academy left Dhaka for Sylhet on Monday with a lot of expectations and emotions in their minds. The academy will begin on November 13, several years after the BFF conceived the idea. Parents and guardians bade budding footballers a bye on

A Slovenian football coach on Sunday met Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin and submitted his curriculum vitae looking to get the job of national football team’s head coach. The position fell vacant after the BFF served the tie with Dutch coach Lodewijk de Kruif last month. Slovenian Ermin Siljak had represented his national team from 1994 ... Read more

Bangladesh women’s football team left Dhaka for Pakistan on Sunday to participate in the 3rd SAFF Women’s Championship, to be held in Islamabad from November 11 to 20. Bangladesh who played in the semi-finals of the inaugural edition of the championship at Dhaka in 2010 were eliminated from the group stage in the next edition

Sonali Otit Club, a platform for former footballers, will host a two-day long Under 10-12 Football Festival at the Arambagh Artificial Turf starting from today. A total of 16 teams will participate in the competition, sponsored by Max Group, splitting into four groups. The group stage games will be held over 30 minutes,

The Bangladesh Football Federation will accord a reception to the national team today for their win over Sri Lanka in the recent FIFA friendly series. Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in Rajshahi on October 27 after the two teams played out a 1-1 draw in Jessore on October 24. ‘To encourage the national team for ... Read more

Satellite television Channel-9 has secured the sponsorship rights of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament for the next five years when they signed a deal with the Bangladesh Football Federation on Thursday. They agreed to provide Tk six crore for each edition of the tournament and handed over a cheque of Tk one crore for ... Read more

Japan Football Association has decided to send their Under-21 team instead of the Olympic team to take part in a friendly match against the Bangladesh next month, said the officials of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Wednesday. Earlier, the BFF president Kazi Salahuddin requested the JFA to send the Under-23 Olympic team to Dhaka to ... Read more

The Bangladesh Football Federation will host a national-wide lottery from November 10 to raise fund for the development of the game, said the officials on Monday BFF has appointed a consultant firm JK International, specialised in organising lotteries, after it received the necessary permissions from the finance ministry.

The Bangladesh Football Federation has accepted an invitation from Malaysia to send their Under-12 football team to participate in the Super Mokh Cup, scheduled from December 1-7. Three local teams and two English teams will participate in week-long competition among others. All the matches will be a 60-minute affair where

Gambian coach Omar K Sise is all set to be appointed as the coach of Muktijoddha Sangsad KC for the upcoming football season, said an official on Sunday. Sise, who coached Feni Soccer last season, will replace Shafiqul Islam Manik, who guided the club for the last three years. Muktijoddha said recently that they will ... Read more

The Bangladesh Football Federation will start the much-talked-about Sylhet Academy on November 13, two-and-half year after it was inaugurated by the FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Blatter inaugurated the academy at the Sylhet BKSP on March 6, 2012, but the BFF failed to make it functioning as the National Sports Council delayed the

Bangladesh is keen to host a football series at youth level against China to celebrate the 40th anniversary of friendship between the two countries in May next year, said a top official on Thursday. The proposal was initially discussed on August 30 at a meeting of the ministry of foreign affairs, who had requested the ... Read more

National coach Chandika Hathurusinghe on Wednesday requested the Dhaka Premier League coaches to ensure that the national players follow the schedule planned by the national trainer when they will be on club duty. The Dhaka Premier League is expected to start on November 5 when a good number of national players will be engaged with ... Read more

The long-awaited third edition of the Bangabandhu International Gold Cup Football Tournament will be held in the third week of the January next, the Bangladesh Football Federation decided it at an emergency meeting on Tuesday. Satellite television Channel 9 was awarded the sponsorship rights for 5-year as the BFF said they are planning to make ... Read more

Bangladeshi footballers put their recent frustration behind them to finally get a joyous moment as they beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in the second and final match of FIFA Friendly series in Rajshahi on Monday. It ended their winning drought of five matches spanning over 19 months, which the players believe will give them confidence in ... Read more

Bangladesh national football team ended their 19-month winning drought when they eked out a narrow 1-0 win over Sri Lanka in the second and final FIFA Friendly match at Rajshahi on Monday. Veteran forward Zahid Hasan Ameli sent some 30, 000 fans gathered at the Muktijuddha Smriti Stadium into delirium scoring a fourth minute penalty ... Read more

Second Bangladesh-Sri Lanka FIFA friendly at Rajshahi today Bangladesh will be keen for overcome their striking frailty and seal the series with a win when they take on Sri Lanka in their second FIFA friendly match in Rajshahi today. With the match, Rajshahi’s Muktijuddho Smirity Stadium will make its debut as an international venue making ... Read more

The 1-1 draw against Sri Lanka on Friday stretched Bangladesh national football team’s winless streak to five, taking some gloss off from Bangladesh Football Federation’s initiative of hosting regular international matches. Though Bangladesh dominated the match and the players took some satisfaction from the performance, their inability to beat an inexperienced Sri Lankan

Bangladesh ended their AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers with their heads high when they lost to Iran narrowly by 2-1 goals at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. Iran emerged group champions thanks to the win to qualify for the final round in China while Bangladesh finished third behind India, who beat Jordan 6-3 in ... Read more