Under coachMaruful Haque, Abahani ended ahead of the Kings for the first time in six seasons.
I'm so happy. After six long years at Mohammedan, I’ve made it and we’ve won the league. So Alhamdulillah, we are champions. I was fighting for this one for so long.
The recent physical assault on match commissioner Sujit Banerjee by Saad Uddin during a Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match between Bashundhara Kings and Abahani has put focus on Bangladesh Football Federation's (BFF) reluctance to enforce disciplinary measures in top-tier football.
After helping Abahani Limited win the Dhaka Premier League 2024-25 with an outstanding all-round performance, their skipper, Mosaddek Hossain, has now set eyes on making a return to the national side through a similar performance in the upcoming ‘A’ team series against New Zealand.
Mohammedan Sporting Club captain Towhid Hridoy’s suspension saga took a new turn yesterday after he was handed one demerit point for showing dissent after being given out during their Dhaka Premier League (DPL) match against Gazi Group Cricketers in Mirpur.
Abahani missed out on a great opportunity to cut Mohammedan’s four-point lead in the Bangladesh Premier League after being held to a goalless draw by their archrivals in their 12th round match in Cumilla on Saturday.
What should have been a showpiece final in Mymensingh turned into another sorry chapter in domestic football's decline.
Abahani Limited, Legends of Rupganj, and Gulshan Cricket Club emerged victorious in their respective rain-curtailed encounters.
Towhid Hridoy believes the intensity and emotional weight of “a few matches in the Dhaka Premier League (DPL)” push players to give more than they often do in international cricket, after Mohammedan triumphed by 39 runs over their arch-rivals Abahani in a high-stakes DPL fixture on Saturday.
Perennial rivals Abahani Limited and Mohammedan Sporting Club will face off in Mirpur while Agrani Bank Cricket Club and Prime Bank Cricket Club will vie for the final spot in the Super League as the 11th and final round of the first phase of the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) commences today.
The Abahani-Mohammedan game in the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) has lost quite a bit of its lustre with hardly any fans turning up on the ground for the clash in the recent past.
In the highly anticipated match at Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium, neither Kings nor Abahani could create any clear-cut chances in the first half, but the holders headed to the interval with an extra-man advantage.
The fiercely contested encounter at the Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium ended 1-1 after regulation and extra time, sending the match into a tiebreaker, where the Sky Blues held their nerve to prevail.
Mohammedan Sporting Club and Abahani Limited secured their first wins in the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) today with dominant performances against Rupganj Tigers and Gulshan Cricket Club, respectively.
Five-time Bangladesh Premier League champions Bashundhara Kings have signed four foreign players, including Argentine forward Juan Eduardo Lescano, who previously played in the youth teams of Real Madrid and Liverpool. This move comes after FIFA lifted the club's transfer ban on Thursday.
Abahani have parted ways with their long-serving head coach Khaled Mahmud Sujon ahead of the upcoming Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League (DPL) season and replaced the 53-year-old with former national selector Hannan Sarkar.
Title aspirants Abahani spoiled a good opportunity to close the gap further with leaders Mohammedan SC after playing out a goalless draw against Brothers Union in their last match in the first-phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) at Bir Shrestha Shaheed Flight Lt Matiur Rahman Stadium in Munshiganj today.
In-form forward Mohammad Ibrahim scored twice as Abahani moved into second position of the Bangladesh Premier League with a 4-0 thrashing of basement club Chittagong Abahani at the Shaheed Rafique Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium in Mymensingh on Saturday.
The back-to-back victory pushed Abahani to joint-top position with Rahmatganj MFS, with six points each from two matches. Both teams just need a point to confirm their second-round berth from Group B.
