Dhaka: Even though the Bangladesh women’s Olympic team could not register a win in Asian qualifiers of Olympic 2020 women’s football discipline, the team gathered valuable experience which will help the team do better in the future. In the tournament, Bangladesh played in Group C of Round 1 against India, Nepal and hosts Myanmar. Bangladesh went down 5-0 in the first match against Myanmar while in the second match, the scoreline was 7-1 against India. Determined to come out of the bad patch, the team gave it their all in the third...
Read MoreDhaka: To raise funds for the development of football in the country, the BFF had arranged the BFF Lottery 2018. The tickets for the lottery were in the market from March 13, 2018. The draw ceremony of the lottery was held on May 26 and the winners were announced. Now, to hand over the prizes to the winners of the lottery, the BFF has arranged a press meet which will be held at the BFF House at 12:30pm on Saturday, November 17. Representatives of electronic and print media are cordially requested to attend the event. Here is the...
Read MoreDhaka: The Bangladesh Premier League 2018-19 was slated to kick-off on November 30, 2018 in 7 different venues for the first time. However, the 11th national election is scheduled to be held on December 30, 2018. Citing several inconveniences ahead of the election, the participating clubs of BPL 2018-19 had submitted an application to postpone the kick-off the country’s top tier football. Taking their request into cognizance, the BFF Professional Football League Committee on Sunday decided to postpone the kick-off of BPL 2018-19 to...
Read MoreDhaka: The Bangladesh Premier League 2018-19, to be hosted in 7 venues across the country, will begin from the first week of January, 2019. The first division league was scheduled to begin from November 30, 2018 but the matches have been rescheduled due to the upcoming national election slated for December 30 this year. The decision was taken following a petition from the participating teams. The decision about the rescheduling was taken at a meeting of the BFF Professional Football League Committee at the federation’s board room on...
Read MoreDhaka: The U-18 National Football Championship 2018-19 will kick off in 8 venues across the country from January next year. Trainers and coaches of BFF will start scouting potential youngsters for the nationwide football competition. From the first week of December, certified trainers will scout for players in different districts and determine their age for the competition. The BFF Competitions Committee, in a meeting presided over by committee deputy chairman Md Iqbal Hossain took the decision regarding the U-18 competitions. The...
Read More Dhaka: Bangladesh Football Federation is set to sign an agreement with Dhaka Bank Limited over the sponsorship of the country’s women’s football. The signing ceremony will begin around 12pm on Tuesday at BFF conference room on the 3rd floor of Motijheel BFF Bhaban. A press conference was held here on Monday ahead of the signing ceremony, said a release signed by BFF Head of Media Ahsan Ahmed Amit. BFF President Kazi Mohammad...
Read More Dhaka: Abahani Ltd Dhaka won the nerve waning first semifinal game by 4-2 over Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club in Federation Cup. Nigerian striker Sunday Chizoba made a hat-trick in the match that was goalless until the 56th minute. Though Sheikh Jamal was dominating in the whole match, the Abahani boys’ success ratio was too good. Abahani took the lead with Afghanistan defender Mashi Saigani’s 56th-minute goal. He netted the ball...
Read MoreDhaka: Bangladesh Football Federation has signed an agreement with Dhaka Bank Limited over the sponsorship of women’s football. The signing ceremony began around 12pm on Tuesday in the conference room (3rd floor) of the BFF House in Motijheel. BFF President Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin, BFF Women’s Football Committee chairperson, BFF executive member, SWAFF ExCo member, AFC executive member and AFC representative to the FIFA Council Mahfuza Akter Kiron, BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag, Dhaka Bank Ltd. Chairman Mr. Reshadur Rahman...
Read MoreDhaka: Bashundhara Kings hav secured a place in the final of the ongoing Federation Cup 2018 beating Sheikh Russel KC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. The BPL newcomers, even after being dubbed as the favourites, failed to break the Russel defence in regulation time. On the contrary, the men in blue also created chances to potentially kick Bashundhara Kings out of the season inaugural tournament. However, the game ended 0—0 after 90 minutes and went to extra time. Extra time was more of the same from both teams...
Read More Dhaka: Abahani Ltd Dhaka and Bashundhara Kings will hold the final battle on November 23 at Bangabandhu National Stadium to become the champions of ‘Walton Federation Cup 2018’. The tournament, organized by Bangladesh Football Federation and powered by Premier Bank Ltd, started at the same ground on 27 October. The BFF will hold a ‘Pre-match press conference’ at the conference room of the 3rd floor of the BFF Bhaban at 12.00pm...
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