Bangladesh made a significant stride in the latest FIFA Women's World Ranking by climbing five spots to 128th place -- a timely morale boost ahead of the AFC Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers, scheduled for June 29 to July 5 in Myanmar.
Bangladesh women's football team captain Afeida Khandokar believes their recent matches against Jordan and Indonesia provided crucial experience ahead of the upcoming AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers which will run from June 29 to July 5.
Before facing off against higher ranked sides in the AFC Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers in Myanmar in a few weeks' time, the Bangladesh women's football team recently earned back-to-back draws against two strong opponents in Jordan and Indonesia, much to the delight of head coach Peter Butler who felt the team's hard work is starting to pay off.
Bangladesh women's football team continued their impressive showing in the tri-nation FIFA friendly series with a 2-2 draw against hosts Jordan at King Abdullah II Stadium on Tuesday.
Bangladesh Women’s football team have left Dhaka for Amman, Jordan today for two friendlies against hosts Jordan and Indonesia ahead of their Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers, scheduled next month.
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) today announced a 23-member squad for Bangladesh Women’s team’s upcoming tri-nation friendly series in Jordan, where nine footballers who had rebelled against coach Peter Butler were included but Sabina Khatun, who had led the protest, and some other veterans were left out.
All 18 Bangladesh Women’s team footballers who had revolted against head coach Peter Butler have recently been brought under the central contract of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF).
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.
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
Women's empowerment – a gift of liberation – has already been a significant force behind development.
Our national women’s football team’s victory surely gives us all, especially the women, an extraordinary level of confidence.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, responsible for ground handling services at the Dhaka Airport, today claimed that the representatives of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and the concerned football players received their luggage in proper condition.
