Football

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

Bangladesh will face group favourites Iran in their final group B match of the AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship qualifiers at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today. To qualify in the final round in China next year, Bangladesh must win this match by nine goals and hope India slip against Jordan in the other match of the ... Read more

Terminated national football coach Lodewijk de Kruif left for Netherlands on Wednesday but kept the door open for a possible return at the helm sometime next year. The Bangladesh Football Federation terminated the contract of Dutchman Kruif last week citing negligence of duties as the coach spent more than seven months

Interim Bangladesh coach Saiful Bari Titu said on Tuesday that he will continue the coaching philosophy instilled over the last one-and-a-half years by outgoing coach Lodewijk de Kruif when his team will play two FIFA friendlies against Sri Lanka this week. Sri Lanka national football team arrived at Dhaka on

Iran moved within one point of qualifying in the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship final round on Tuesday when they trounced Jordan 6-1 in their third match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The Iranians now lead Group B with nine points from three matches and will only require a draw in their Thursday’s last match against ... Read more

The Bangladesh Football Federation and national coach Lodewijk De Kruif reached a consensus on Monday to end their relationship in an amicable manner, officials said. The BFF earlier decided to dismiss Kruif and his assistant Rene Koster, accusing the Dutchmen on their negligence of duties. While BFF insisted they are firm

India brought high-flying Bangladesh down to earth when they beat the home side 2-1 in the group B AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. With this defeat, Bangladesh’s chance to qualify for the final round in China is all but finished, as they now need to win their last ... Read more

India brought high-flying Bangladesh down to earth when they beat the home side 2-1 in the group B AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. With this defeat, Bangladesh’s chance to qualify for the final round in China is all but finished, as they now need to win their last ... Read more

The Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday has terminated the contracts of national team’s Dutch coach Lodewijk de Kruif and his assistant Rene Koster accusing them of negligence of duties. BFF president Kazi Salahuddin announced the decision after a meeting of national team management committee held on Friday night when most of the members voted in ... Read more

Bangladesh will play India in their third group B match of the AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship qualifiers at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today. Bangladeshi girls are highly motivated after two successive victories over Jordan and UAE and feel no pressure against the highest ranked side of the group India

Hosts Bangladesh continued their winning run in the AFC Under-16 Women’s Championship qualifiers when they hammered UAE 6-0 in their second match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday. Sanjida Akter, the architect of Bangladesh’s 1-0 win over Jordan in their previous match, struck two goals alongside Bipasha Mali as the home girls kept

Bangladesh were feeling that they have accomplished their mission in the in the AFC Under-16 women’s qualifiers when they beat UAE by 6-0 in their second match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Friday. Bangladesh began the tournament as clear underdogs with little hopes to qualify for the final round in China. Initially they were ... Read more

Hosts Bangladesh pulled off a huge upset in the AFC Under-16 women’s football Group B qualifying round match when they stunned Jordan 1-0 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Wednesday. Sanjida Akhter scored the only goal from the penalty spot in the 70th minute to leave Jordan shell-shocked. Jordan, who are currently placed 57th in the FIFA ... Read more

Bangladesh national team coach Lodewijk de Kruif has complained to FIFA over his unpaid wages, accusing the Bangladesh Football Federation of breaking their promises. Kruif also labelled the BFF as liars and said unless he is paid his dues, he will not return to take the charge for the two friendlies against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh have

Bangladesh face Jordan on the opening day The AFC Under-16 women’s football Group B qualifying round gets underway in Dhaka today with hosts Bangladesh taking on Jordan on the opening day at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The tournament will formally kick-off at 2:00pm when Iran play against UAE at the same venue. India are the other ... Read more

The Bangladesh Football Federation on Monday vowed to take tough action against the team’s that will skip age-level tournament in the coming season. The professional league committee of the BFF in a meeting in the afternoon decided that the offending clubs will face a fine up to Tk 20 lakh and a bar from participating in ... Read more

The Bangladesh Under-16 women’s football team promised to give their best during the AFC Under-16 Women Championship qualifying round, which gets underway in Dhaka on Wednesday. Jordan, Iran, United Arab Emirates, India and Bangladesh will play in the qualifying round with two teams progressing for the final round, which is scheduled in

The Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday formally unveiled Japanese Norio Tsukitate as the head coach of women’s national team. Tsukitate arrived on October 4 to take charge of the women’s team ahead of third Women’s SAFF Championship, scheduled in Pakistan from November 11-20. The Japan Football Association will bear the salary of Tsukitate, an AFC A

The much-talked about Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football Tournament saw some light finally as six teams confirmed their participation, said a top official of the Bangladesh Football Federation on Friday. BFF president Kazi Salahuddin said that Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Bahrain and Laos have agreed to join hosts Bangladesh in the tournament, scheduled to be held