Football

Former Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra coach Maruful Haque made an appeal to the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday to lift his one-year ban from football slapped by the disciplinary committee on August 24. Maruf, the treble winning coach of Sheikh Russell KC, was suspended for one year and fined Tk 30,000 when he demanded that the ... Read more

Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra received further blow after Mithun Chowdhury joined Asiad squad, when Mohammedan Sporting Club refused to release their five players to play for them in the AFC President’s Cup final round starting in Sri Lanka from September 20. Mohammedan Sporting Club sent a letter to the

Defender Meshu out of the Games with injury Bangladesh Under-23 national football team’s hopes of doing anything in the Asian Games took a heavy jolt when they lost their warm-up match against Vietnam Unted-23s 4-2 at the Munhak Football Field in Incheon, South Korea on Wednesday. With just five days to go before the start of ... Read more

Bangladesh Under-23 national football team had their first training session in Incheon, South Korea, on Tuesday and they will play a practice match against their Vietnam counterparts in preparation for the Asian Games at the Munhak Football Field Auxiliary Pitch today. Bangladesh team, who left for Incheon a week before

The second edition of the Airtel Under-18 Football Tournament will begin at the Bangabandhhu National Stadium on September 13. This is a competition of the youth teams from the Bangladesh Professional Football League clubs and Sheikh Jamal being the only team to pull their team out from the tournament for the second successive year. This was announced ... Read more

A 24-member Bangladesh Under-23 national team left Dhaka for South Korea on Sunday night to take part in the upcoming Asian Games with the aim to perform as a unit against some of their more illustrious opponents. Bangladesh will face Afghanistan in their first group match on September 15 before facing Uzbekistan and Hong Kong on ... Read more

An Overview Of DPL Teams (7) Abahani look to end title drought Abahani Limited will fight hard to end their title drought in the Dhaka Premier League with their young brigade, when they start their campaign this season in October. Abahani, a record 17-time champions in the league, claimed a hat-trick of titles from 2007-08 ... Read more

Argentina legend Gabriel Batistuta begged a doctor to amputate his legs due to the excruciating pain he felt after retiring in 2005, reports the Daily Mail. The former striker, who netted 56 times in 78 international caps and terrorised defences in Serie A for years, suffered terribly from the stress he had put

Bangladesh national team midfielder Mamunul Islam claimed that Atletico de Kolkata, a franchise of the cash-rich Indian Super League, have offered him to play for the side in its inaugural edition of the tournament, scheduled to start from October 12. The league will feature eight franchise

Poor refereeing and lack of concentration were at fault for Bangladesh Under-23s’ 0-1 defeat against Nepal in their second friendly match in Sylhet, said skipper Mamunul Islam on Sunday. More than 40,000 spectators watched the game at the Sylhet district stadium and many of them took their seat in the ground close to the touchline after ... Read more

The huge crowd gathering in Sylhet to watch Bangladesh Under-23 team’s friendly against Nepal may have provided football organisers an eye opener on Friday, but ironically the top officials of the Bangladesh Football Federation missed the scene. More than 40,000 fans scrambled at the Sylhet

The second friendly football match between Bangladesh Under-23 and Nepal Under-23 teams was delayed by an hour due to a pitch invasion, when a huge crowd entered the field by breaking the main gate of the Sylhet District Stadium on Friday. This was the first time that Sylhet hosted an

Defending champions Dhaka Tribune were knocked out of the Ascent 5-a-side Corporate Football when they lost 1-2 to Beximco Textile in the quarter-final at the STM Hall of the Scholastica School on Friday. The other team’s who moved into the semi-finals were — Magnito Digital, Rahimafrooze Storage and Chevron Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Under-23 national football team drew the first blood in their two-match international friendly series against their Nepalese counterpart with a 1-0 win at the Army Stadium at Banani on Tuesday. Sohel Rana scored the all important goal for the hosts on the hour mark to give them a huge boost for the second and final ... Read more

Qubee continued their winning run in the Ascent 5-a-side Corporate Football with a 3-2 win over IFC World Bank Group at the STM Hall of the Scholastica School on Tuesday. Noor-e-Alam, Yasir and Rased were all on scoresheet for the winners while Zulqar and Fahad scored a goal apiece for IFC. In the other matches ... Read more

If FIFA was governed in same style of the Bangladesh Football Federation then Louis Van Gaal would not have been Manchester United coach, at least for this season. On July 23 before the last group match of the World Cup, the then Netherland’s manager Louis Van Gaal blasted FIFA over the fixture schedule which

The Bangladesh Under-23 national football team will face Nepal Under-23 national team at the Banani Army Stadium today in a practice match to test their strength ahead of the Asian Games in Korea. The game provides Bangladesh a perfect opportunity to tighten their defence that leaked four goals against Bangladesh Army in a warm-up match at ... Read more

The Bangladesh Under-23 national football team is expected to play a friendly match as part of preparation for the upcoming Asian Games against a top-tier Malaysian Super League team in the first week of September, said a BFF official on Monday. The final decision will be made today after receiving

HSBC strolled into the second round of the 9th Ascent 5-a-side Corporate Football after a thumping 9-1 win over Cream & Fudge at the STM Hall of the Scholastica School on Monday. The winners needed to score at least seven goals to make it to the round of 16 and five goals from Naimul, two from ... Read more

Barcelona’s La Liga campaign looked set to get off to an unlucky start on Sunday evening as a black cat ran on to the pitch at the Nou Camp in the second minute of their opening league match against Elche, reports the Daily Mail. Blaugrana boss Luis Enrique saw the funny side of things in the ... Read more