Premier football league to start on April 7

The Bangladesh Premier League is scheduled to kick off on April 7, an executive committee meeting of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) decided today.

The professional football league was supposed to begin today.

The date has been fixed in the meeting after BFF, the organiser, decided to give away Tk 25 lakh to each of the 11 teams as participation money, said Abdus Salam Murshidi, BFF senior vice-president.

Earlier, the participating clubs remained stick to their decision not to take part in the professional football league demanding the participation money from the BFF.