AFC affiliation 1973 | FIFA affiliation 1976 SAFF affiliation 1997 | |
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Founded 1972; 45 years ago (1972) | ||
Bangladesh Football Federation or BFF is the governing body of football in Bangladesh. The organisation which manages the game of association football in Bangladesh. It administers the running of Bangladesh national football team and Bangladesh women's national football team including oversees all aspects of the country's football.
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BFF controls Bangladesh Premier League and premier domestic club competition, in addition to various other competitions and teams.
BFF was one of founding members of South Asian Football Federation. It is based at BFF Bhaban, Motijheel, Dhaka.
History
BFF was founded on 15 July 1972, by Md. Yousuf Ali (Former Education, Culture and Sports Minister). Ali presided the association with Abul Hashem of Wari Club as general secretary.
It became affiliated with AFC and FIFA in 1973 and 1976 respectively. Bangladesh was elected as member in the AFC Executive Committee 1982-86 and 1998-02.
Hafizuddin Ahmed was elected vice president of AFC for 1990-94.
The BFF continued the Dhaka League that started in 1948, after the independence of Bangladesh. It gained huge numbers of fans and support and continued with premier, first, second and third divisions in the process.
In 1980, the Federation started top the Federation Cup, which grew to be the country's top national cup competition.
In 2007 BFF started the country's top tier professional league Bangladesh Premier League (known as B. League then).
In 2009 it launched the Super Cup tournament, the highest budgeted football tournament organised by BFF, Dhaka Mohammedan SC beat arch-rivals Dhaka Abahani SC.
In 2012 BFF launched 2nd tier professional league Bangladesh Championship League.
The BFF is also a founding member of South Asian Football Federation.
Active
Competitions currently run by BFF include:
Defunct
Competitions previously run by BFF include:
Stadiums
(List of football stadiums in Bangladesh)
Official partners
Nitol-Tata the sole distributor of Tata vehicles in Bangladesh was the official sponsor between 2000 till 2005
In April 2008, the BFF secured BDT 16,00,00,000 (equivalent to USD 22,85,714 appx) for three years from a multinational mobile operator company, Citycell (Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited) for three years as sponsorship for Bangladesh Football Federation, which is a record in the football sponsorship money securing in the history of Bangladesh football.
Later in 2010, it made contract with Grameenphone - country's leading mobile phone operator, for the sponsorship of BFF's tournaments.
BFF secured USD 70,000 for one year when Nitol-Tata again became the official sponsor for the 2013/2014 season.