Football

Ward No. 13 football team of Rajshahi City Corporation beat Ward No. 16 2-0 in the 2nd Councilor Gold Cup football tournament at the District Stadium on Sunday. Riad and Shimar scored the two goals while Tuhin was adjudged as the man of the match. In another match of the day, Ward No. 22 defeated ... Read more

The under-19 women’s football team of Jordan and India arrived in the city yesterday to take part in the Group B qualifying-1 round matches of the AFC U-19 women’s championship that begins on Monday at the Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur. Iran, the other participants apart from hosts Bangladesh, will arrive today. India will ... Read more

Bangladesh Football Federation will arrange the AFC Under-19 Football Championship (Qualification Round) in Dhaka from September 20. The five-day long football meet for women will be staged in Bir Sreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal stadium in Kamalapur. Host Bangladesh, Iran, India and Jordan will participate in the

Robert Rubcic, the new Croatian football coach, pointed out a lack of finishing and not performing off-the-ball duties well as the major weaknesses of Bangladesh footballers and vowed to work hard on the flaws on Monday. Rubcic, who roamed around the Dhaka city during the three-day vacation on occasion

Bangladesh League champions Abahani Ltd moved into the final of the Bordoloi Trophy with a 1-0 win over Shillong Lajong (U-19) in the second semi-final at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati, Assam, on Monday. After a barren 90 minutes of regulation time the game went into extra time and experienced forward Alfaz struck the all-important ... Read more

Newly appointed head coach of Bangladesh national football team Robert Rubcic announced his intention to take Bangladesh thirty places higher in the FIFA rankings within the next year. The 47-year Croat, who arrived in the capital last morning after travelling 24 hours from Zagreb, stated his aim at a crowded press conference at the BFF ... Read more

Bangla-desh Football Federation on Monday received an offer from a Germany-based website for live streaming of the Bangladesh League matches. Al Musabbir Sadi, general secretary of the BFF, said the federation will take the matter seriously. ‘It is a good opportunity to present Bangladesh football to the viewers around the

Leave for Assam today Three-time Bangladesh League champions Abahani leave for Assam this afternoon to take part in the Bordoloi Trophy as part of their preparations ahead of the upcoming season. Abahani, who are still unaware of their opponents, will start their campaign from the second round as they have been drawn along with two ... Read more

Robert Rubcic, the new Croatian coach of Bangladesh national football team, will arrive on Wednesday to join his job. Rubcic will be the third foreign coach for the national side in two years since the present committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation took the helm in April, 2008. Rubecic is the 14th foreign national coach ... Read more

AFC Challenge Cup Bangladesh get direct entry The Asian Football Confede-ration (AFC) yesterday revealed the rules and regulations for the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup with Bangla-desh playing in the 16-team finals directly. The fourth edition of the Challenge Cup, which is designed for the third-tier nations of the continent, will however have stage qualifiers among ... Read more

Experien-ced goalkeeper Aminul Haque is eligible to play in the Asian Games after the Asian Football Confederation gave him clearance on Wednesday. An e-mail from the AFC stated that Aminul’s one-match suspension, after he was red-carded when playing against Sri Lanka in the AFC Challenge Cup last January, will not be

A two-day workshop on FIFA’s electronic transfer matching system got underway at the BFF house today, with the participation of all the professional league clubs. The day also opened the window of the foreign players’ transfer, which will be closed on October 15. Each of the 12 clubs will be eligible to sign five foreigners ... Read more

Bangla-desh Football Federation has finally deferred the starting date of inter-club players’ transfer for the Bangladesh League for one month from September 1 to October 1. The decision was made at a meeting of the BFF’s emergency committee on Saturday. Responding to the appeal by the seven clubs the BFF moved from its previous

The seven struggling clubs of Bangladesh League will request the Bangladesh Football Federation to extend the players’ transfer deadline by 25 days allowing them to complete their player registration procedures. Seven clubs – Brothers Union, Rahmatganj MFS, Farashganj SC, Arambagh KS, Chittagong Mohammedan SC, Chittagong Abahani and Feni Soccer Club – earlier informed the

Three times Bangladesh League champions Abahani yesterday flew in two new Ghanaian recruits along with their old Ghanaian stalwarts Awudu Ibrahim and Samad Yousif yesterday ahead of the upcoming season. Striker Twam, who last played in the Oman League and midfielder Yousif Aminu, who plays in the Ghanaian league, will be touring with Abahani to ... Read more

Leading sport conglomerate Puma is all set to sponsor the Bangladesh national women’s football team in the upcoming SAFF Women’s Championship in December. “Puma has agreed in principle to sponsor Bangladesh’s women’s football team for the SAFF Women’s Championship. Under the agreement they will provide jerseys, balls, trousers, socks and

The Bangladesh Football Federation is still uncertain of national custodian Aminul Haque could play in the Asian Games football. The custodian was sent off in the 37th minute of the AFC Challenge Cup match against Sri Lanka on February 20 in Sri Lanka

Shafiqul Islam Manik returned to his old hunting ground after a gap of three years as the AFC-A license coach was appointed yesterday as the head coach of Mohammedan Sporting Club for the next two years. Manik, who was nominated by the football committee on Thursday, was finally approved by the ad-hoc committee convener

Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to lead Barcelona to a 4-0 victory over Sevilla and a 5-3 aggregate win in the Spanish Super Cup. The Argentine forward had a quiet World Cup in South Africa but looked more comfortable back among his club mates at the

Shafiqul Islam Manik is all set to return to his old outfit when the football committee of Mohammedan Sporting Club proposed him as coach for the upcoming season. “The meeting has proposed to appoint Manik as a coach and the proposal has been sent to the convener for the final decision,” said Sayeed Hasan Kanon, ... Read more