Of the 18 rebel players of the Bangladesh women’s team, some 10 players met head coach Peter Butler today on the first day of the national team's training camp for the AFC Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers in June-July.
There has apparently been no resolution regarding the impasse between women’s footballers and the team’s head coach as six senior players are leaving to play in the Bhutan National Women’s League today, a day prior to Peter Butler’s return from England.
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus presented the Ekushey Padak 2025 -- the country's second highest civilian award -- to the Bangladesh women’s national team, a four-member team of Avro keyboard, and 13 eminent citizens at Osmani Memorial Auditorium today. Sabina Khatun and her troops were selected for the prestigious prize in recognition of their contribution to the country's sports sector. The women in red and green won the country's first SAFF Women's Championship title in 2022 and defended their crown two years later. "Inspired by your contribution, the nation is firmly hoped to be established in a continuous better position in assemblies of the United Nations,” Chief Adviser Yunus said at the award distribution ceremony. Photos: BFF
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday signed contracts with 36 players of the national women’s football teams, confirmed a source within the BFF.
There apparently has not been any headway in the impasse in women's football despite a wholehearted effort from the president of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) to break the ice between the 18 senior players and the head coach of the women's national team.
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) president Tabith Awal will make a call on the report prepared by a seven-member special committee regarding the ongoing impasse over women’s football team’s camp, even though it is uncertain whether the president will declare the findings of the report today or will take more time to more on the delicate issue before making it public.
“Over the past few days, I have received countless death and rape threats—words that have shattered me in ways I never imagined,” wrote Bangladesh women’s football team forward Matsushima Sumaya in a Facebook post that has reverberated across the nation today.
The residential training camp will be supervised by local coaches, as the local governing body has yet to confirm the reappointment of British coach Peter Butler, who guided Bangladesh to triumph in the SAFF Women’s Championship last year.
National Sports Council (NSC) has issued 32 cheques for players and support staff of the SAFF winning Bangladesh women’s football team, equally disbursing the promised Tk 1 crore reward for bringing home the regional football title for the second time in a row, said sports Adviser Asif Mahmud on social media.
Saiful Bari Titu has been appointed the head coach of the Bangladesh Women’s national football team for September's Asian Games, Women’s Wing chairman of the Bangladesh Football Federation Mahfuza Akter Kiran confirmed.
The Bangladesh Football Federation on Tuesday announced a 22-member women’s squad for the upcoming 19th Asian Games.
Bangladesh coach Mahbubur Rahman Litu expressed his satisfaction over the performance of his charges despite seeing them concede a stoppage time equaliser against Nepal in their FIFA friendly fixture at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur yesterday.
The mood that gripped the Bangladesh women's football team the last time they played an international football match is a far cry from the one that currently pervades in the team.
Bangladesh Football Federation’s technical director Paul Smalley will not be part the women’s football team’s FIFA friendlies against Nepal in Dhaka, an aberration for the British national who has been a regular fixture of the women’s team since his appointment in 2016.
Bangladesh Football Federation’s women’s wing chairman Mahfuza Akter Kiron has said that BFF has arranged funds to accommodate the women’s football team at Hotel InterContinental, the same hotel that visiting Nepal team are staying, despite its financial insolvency.
With no domestic or international engagement on the cards, the national women's team footballers started returning to the residential camp yesterday after enjoying a five-day break as the Women's Super League (WSL) failed to kick off.
“The parliamentary standing committee [on Youth and Sports] expressed their dissatisfaction after the SAFF Championship-winning Bangladesh women’s team failed to take part in the Paris Olympic qualifiers,” read out a statement from the parliamentary standing committee on the Youth and Sports Ministry
Hosts Bangladesh tasted their first defeat in the ongoing SAFF U-17 Women’s Championship when the girls in red and green suffered a 3-0 defeat to their Russian counterparts at the Shaheed Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium on Wednesday.
Shaheda Akter Ripa and captain Shamsunnahar scored the two goals within a space of four minutes of the first half before Unnoti Khatun put the final nail on Nepal’s coffin in the 87th minute of the match
