Mohammedan Sporting Club finished the season as runners-up in the Bangladesh Premier League for the first time in 14 years after finishing runners-up in two club competitions. Alfaz Ahmed, the man behind the resurgence of the Motijheel outfit, spoke with The Daily Star's Anisur Rahman about the process of rebuilding Mohammedan and many other aspects.
Mohammedan Sporting Club finished runners-up in the Bangladesh Premier League with a 2-1 win against Abahani as the domestic football season came to an end on Wednesday.
After spending one season in the top-tier of Bangladesh's professional football structure, Brothers Union were relegated to the Bangladesh Championship League on Saturday.
Favourites Bashundhara Kings will look to add a new feather to their burgeoning cap when they take on defending champions Mohammedan in the final of the Federation Cup at the Rafique Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium in Mymensingh today.
Abahani Limited caught up with archrivals Mohammedan in points in the Bangladesh Premier League with a massive 7-1 win over Brothers Union after the Black and Whites surrendered a two-goal lead to play out an exciting 3-3 draw against Rahmatganj MFS today.
As Bashundhara Kings celebrated their historic fifth consecutive top-tier league title on Saturday, their closes rivals Mohammedan and Abahani – two of the most illustrious football clubs of the country – were left to rue the disparaging financial stability between the champions and the rest of the teams in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Bashundhara Kings today created a piece of history in Bangladesh’s domestic football by winning a fifth-consecutive Bangladesh Premier League title with a 2-1 win against title-rivals Mohammedan Sporting Club at the Rafique Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium in Mymensingh.
Defending champions Mohammedan came from behind to confirm their final berth in the Federation Cup with a 2-1 win over Bangladesh Police FC in the first semifinal at the Shaheed Birshreshtha Flight Lt Matiur Rahman Stadium in Munshiganj on Tuesday.
Bashundhara Kings extended their lead at the top of the Bangladesh Premier League with a 2-0 win over Sheikh Jamal DC as second-placed Mohammedan Sporting Club were held to a goalless draw by Bangladesh Police FC on Saturday.
Sheikh Russel brought down high-flying Mohammedan to emerge group champions in Independence Cup with a 3-0 win in Group A decider at Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj on Monday.
For nearly a decade until this season, Mohammedan Sporting Club have been devoid of any silverware at the top-flight football and apparently the Black and Whites have not shown the necessary drive to negate their long miserable journey, though such apathy from the club was unthinkable up to late 1990s.
Signing for a club after taking advanced payment from another club has apparently become a common phenomenon for the country's top footballers during the Bangladesh Premier League transfer window, and the latest one that began on October 8 ahead of the 2022-23 season proved to be no exception.
“I have always said that scoring a goal is the best feeling in the world,” legendary English striker Alan Shearer once said. In football, where goals decide destinies, it is a striker’s role to deliver balls to the back of the net.
Abahani Limited led by Tamim Iqbal take Mushfiqur Rahim’s Mohammedan Sporting Club to school and thump the Motijheel-based team by whopping 260-runs at BKSP today.
Mohammedan Sporting Club defeat Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club by six wickets at Mirpur today to move to the summit of the ongoing Dhaka Premier League’s points table.
Mohammedan Sporting Club join defending champions Abahani at the top of the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League table after a 4-3 goal win over Bangladesh Sporting Club.
Mohammedan Sporting Club held defending champions Abahani to a 2-2 draw in their Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League match at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium today.
Mohammedan Sporting Club held defending champions Abahani to a 2-2 draw in their Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League match at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium today.
Mohammedan SC record their second victory in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League with a 3-1 win over Sonali Bank.