The Bangladesh Football Federation on Monday decided to include Sylhet Football Academy team in the upcoming Bangladesh Championship League to give the young players opportunity to prove their worth in the competitive level. The decision came through a meeting of the BFF. Despite being late, BFF finally followed the path of All India Football Federation who has
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Arambagh await league lifeline
Arambagh Krira Sangha, relegated from the sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League, can get a lifeline to stay at the top flight as the Bangladesh Football Federation is planning to increase the number of participating clubs in the country’s top professional league. After going down in the recently concluded BPL,
Pioneer football prize money distributed
The pioneer league committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation finally awarded the prize money of the Dhaka City Corporation pioneer football league on Thursday after the conclusion of the league six months ago. The Pioneer League began on October 9 and ended
MSC confirm Super Cup entry
Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited confirmed their participation in the third edition of the Super Cup through a confirmation letter sent to the Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday. Later, Mohammedan officials also verified the matter
Lack of sponsorship postpones booters’ tour of England
India-based Celebrity Management Group, who were supposed to organise the tri-nation friendly matches between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, postponed the triangular series which was scheduled to be held in England in the first week of June, informed the Bangladesh Football Federation on Tuesday. The national team’s camp, which was scheduled to begin today
Footballers face long lay-off as league ends
The footballers of different clubs face a long lay-off as the Bangladesh Football Federation reneged on an earlier promise to keep the ball rolling for 10 months in a season. After taking over the charge for the second term, BFF president Kazi Salahuddin had promised that the off-season will not be prolonged for more than ... Read more
Super Cup prize money unchanged
The professional league committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation has decided to preserve the prize money of the Super Cup to Tk one crore, despite initially planning to reduce it by half. The Super Cup is scheduled to be held in November, confirmed Abdus Salam Mursehdi, chairman of the professional league committee after a meeting ... Read more
No Super Cup this season
The international friendly matches of the Bangladesh national team forced the Bangladesh Football Federation to shift the upcoming Super Cup to November, said a top official on Sunday. The Super Cup, which attracted huge attention during the inaugural edition in 2008 for its Tk 1 crore prize money, was last held in 2011. The third ... Read more
Friendly frenzy for booters
The national teams committee (NTC) of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) are planning to organise eight friendly matches before the 10th SAFF Championship in Kathmandu in September, informed Kazi Nabil Ahmed, chairman of the committee on Monday. `The national team will contest two FIFA friendly
FIFA director likely for final selection
BFF Academy’s Talent Hunt FIFA director likely for final selection FIFA technical director Jean Michel Benezet is likely to conduct the final selection of the booters for the Bangladesh Football Federation Academy in December as the divisional phase of the talent hunt has almost been completed last month. Some 120 booters — Under-14 and U-18 ... Read more
BFF designs talent hunt programme
The Bangladesh Football Federation in a development committee meeting on Tuesday decided to launch a countrywide talent hunt programme from September 1 in order to start its first academy in Sylhet. The nearly two-month long programme will be divided in four phases – upazila, district, division and national level – and 60 players (30 of ... Read more
Amer terms TV interview doctored
Brothers Union manager Amer Khan has told the Bangladesh Football Federation that his interview aired on a local television channel on match fixing was fabricated and incomplete as he was summoned by the federation. Amer in an interview with Ekattor TV on on Monday said that they had to concede a defeat in their Bangladesh Premier ... Read more
Badal, Nabil swap BFF positions
Bangladesh Football Federation vice-presidents Badal Roy and Kazi Nabil Ahmed swapped their positions in the two important standing committees as the newly-elected body of BFF took charge through a meeting on Saturday. Badal Roy, who was the chairman of the national team management committee last
It’s just the beginning?
After the successful completion of the Argentina-Nigeria match in Dhaka, Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has now sets its sights on bringing English Premier League champions Manchester United and Diego Maradona’s Al Wasl FC of UAE to the city next year. “If I am elected again in next year’s election, then I will try to bring ... Read more
Argentina-Nigeria friendly tickets from August 8
The tickets for next month’s Argentina-Nigeria international friendly match in Dhaka will go on sale on August 8 at eight different city branches of IFIC Bank, the Bangladesh Football Federation announced on Thursday. A total of 11,846 tickets – 6,447 for the western gallery and 5,399 for the eastern gallery – will be available for ... Read more
More questions than answers
League committee ends investigation into match-fixing scandal RECOMMENDATIONS o Taka 20 lakh fine for Jamal o Taka 5 lakh fine for Rahmatganj o Two-year suspension for Rahmatganj goalkeeper Iran Sheikh o Three-year suspension of Rahmatganj official Salahuddin Kala
Ilievski ready to take charge
His immense desire to return to the international arena has prompted Macedonian coach Nikola Ilievski to take charge of the Bangladesh national football team despite having only four days available to prepare them for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Pakistan. “For me, it is not important who the team is that I’m guiding. Whether ... Read more
Danish footballer in line to represent Bangladesh
A Danish footballer of Bangladesh origin named Jamal Bhuyan is likely to represent the national side after he was picked by the Bangladesh Football Federation in the 27-member preliminary squad for the World Cup pre-qualifiers on Friday. Jamal, son of a Bangladeshi living in Denmark, was born and brought up in Copenhagen and