Football

The Bangladesh Under-19 national football team were held to a goalless draw by Pakistan in their final Group C game of the AFC U-19 Championship qualifiers at the Francouse Al-Hareeri Stadium in Arbil City, Iraq on Saturday. The six best runners-up sides will join the nine group champions in the final round next year in ... Read more

The Bangladesh Under-19 national football team will face Pakistan today to find out if they can confirm their place in the AFC U-19 Championship next year as one of the best runners-up sides. Bangladesh are gunning for one of the six best runners-up spots up for grabs in the AFC U-19 Championship qualifiers at the ... Read more

The National Sports Council has finally decided to provide the Bir Sreshtho Shaheed Sipahi Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur to the Bangladesh Football Federation to install artificial turf, a top NSC official confirmed on Wednesday. The BFF had requested a 20-year long-term

The Bangladesh Football Federation’s professional league committee has recommended that some of its own members should be put on the referees committee, top officials said after a meeting at the BFF House on Wednesday. Professional league committee chairman Salam Murshedi said that some top club officials had asked to be put on the referees committee,

Coca-Cola will bring world football’s greatest prize, the FIFA World Cup trophy, to Bangladesh from December 17 to 19 to give local football fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the trophy. ‘Today is a very important day, not only for Coca-Cola, but also for football lovers of Bangladesh because for the first time, Coca-Cola, with ... Read more

One of the best cement producing companies in Bangladesh, Shah Cement Industries Ltd have come forward to sponsor the first formula racer from Bangladesh, Mahfuzur Rahman Tushar for the upcoming ‘16 JK Tyre Racing Competition Formula LGB 4 – Round 4’ in Delhi. A press conference was called to announce

Bangladesh U-19 Football team left for Iraq Sunday morning to take part in the Group C matches of the AFC U-19 Championship Qualifiers that will begin Tuesday at the Francouse Al-Hareeri Stadium in the Arbil City of Iraq. Hemanta Vincent Biswas will lead the Bangladesh team in the AFC youth meet while national striker Toklis Ahmed ... Read more

Four-time domestic football league champions Abahani Limited have appointed Australian Nathan Hall as coach for the upcoming season, confirmed top officials of the Dhanmondi-based club on Thursday. Abahani officials interviewed the 28-year old Hall last month but only confirmed his appointment on Thursday. Hall will arrive in Dhaka on October 20 and immediately

Bangladesh Under-19 national football team coach Rene Koster thinks his team can get out of its qualifying group next week and go through to the 2014 Asian Football Confederation Under-19 Championship in Myanmar. The Dutchman only took charge of the team on September 8 – a week after their training camp had begun – but is ... Read more

Bangladesh national football team coach Lodewijk De Kruif hit back at the fact-finding committee on Wednesday and said that they have misjudged his performance at last month’s SAFF Championship in Kathmandu. The fact-finding committee, headed by Bangladesh Football Federation vice-president Badal Roy, said that De Kruif was found, after 10 days

Under-19 national football team beat Tota Academy 6-0 on Wednesday in a practice match ahead of their tour of Iraq for the AFC Under-19 qualifiers, to be held in Baghdad from October 8 to 12. The Bangladesh Football Federation said the opponent team were made up of players from the second tier league. The BFF ... Read more

The Under-10 and Under -12 national teams will not take part in the Youth Football Festival in South Korea from October 4-6, breaking the hearts of the players slated to make the trip. The players were denied visas to attend the festival after the confirmation deadline was allowed to pass without anyone informing the Korean ... Read more

Saff Debacle Probe Committee recommends punishment for Zahid The fact-finding committee, formed to probe SAFF football debacle, in its report on Saturday has recommended that fitness trainer Yamali Mohammet and winger Zahid Hasan should be punished for their part in the competition. The committee, headed by Bangladesh Football

There is major uncertainty surrounding Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra as the football season approaches without an elected body running the Muktijoddha Sangsad. ‘Nothing is final yet. Due to the crisis with the central command election we are little bit on the back-foot about forming the team,’ coach Shafikul Islam Manik

Top officials of Abahani Limited have interviewed Australian coach Nathan Hall for the upcoming season, an official revealed on Tuesday. ‘It was a productive discussion between the two parties, but we are yet to finalise him,’ Abahani football manager Sattyajit Das Rupu said on Tuesday. Rupu also said that Hall had been the head

Faridpur football fans will have a chance to watch football rivals Mohammedan Sporting Club and Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club play at the newly-renovated Faridpur District Stadium today. The Faridpur District Stadium is to be inaugurated as Sheikh Jamal District Stadium after the completion of the renovation work. To commemorate the event,

Saff Debacle Probe Committee wraps up interviews Badal Roy, convener of the Bangladesh Football Federation fact-finding committee investigating the national team’s failure at the SAFF Championship, hinted on Monday that they would suggest strong action if anyone was found to be underperforming. The committee, formed by the BFF after

Six new faces will arrive in Dhaka in the last week of this month for trials with Abahani Limited while Mohammedan Sporting Club have set their sights on sub-continental players as the local giants are gearing up for the upcoming football season. Both Abahani and Mohammedan have placed their priority on recruiting quality foreign players ... Read more

Saff Debacle Probe Russell chief blames coaches for failure Sheikh Russell Krira Chakra president Nurul Alam Chowdhury blamed the coaching staff and the national team management committee for Bangladesh’s SAFF Championship debacle after facing the fact-finding committee at the Bangladesh Football Federation House on Friday. Chowdhury had recently expressed interest in

Saff Debacle Probe Footballers blame physio Seasoned footballers of the Bangladesh national team blamed physical trainer Mohammet Yamali for their weariness during the recently concluded 10th SAFF Championship in Nepal where they went out in the first round. While facing queries of the fact-finding committee on Thursday at the BFF House, midfielder Atiqur Rahman Meshu, wing-back