# 2020–21 Bashundhara Kings season

The 2020–21 season is Bashundhara Kings's 8th season as a football club since its creation in 2013, and its 3rd consecutive season in the top-flight. In addition to domestic league, Bashundhara participated on this season's edition of Federation Cup and AFC Cup. The season covered the period from December 2020 to September 2021, with the late ending to the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.

## Current squad

    As of 14 May 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | BAN | Mitul Hasan |
| 2 | DF | BAN | Sushanto Tripura |
| 3 | DF | BAN | Nurul Naium Faisal |
| 4 | DF | BAN | Topu Barman (captain) |
| 6 | MF | BAN | Emon Mahmud Babu |
| 7 | MF | BAN | Masuk Mia Jony |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Fernandes |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Raúl Becerra |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Robinho (on loan from Fluminense) |
| 11 | FW | BAN | Tawhidul Alam Sabuz |
| 12 | DF | BAN | Bishwanath Ghosh |
| 13 | MF | BAN | Atiqur Rahman Fahad |
| 14 | DF | BAN | Yeasin Khan |
| 15 | MF | BAN | Biplu Ahmed |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | FW | BAN | Mahbubur Rahman Sufil |
| 18 | MF | BAN | Sheikh Alamgir Kabir Rana |
| 19 | MF | BAN | Mohammad Ibrahim |
| 20 | FW | BAN | Eleta Kingsley |
| 21 | FW | BAN | Rasel Ahmed |
| 22 | GK | BAN | Anisur Rahman Zico |
| 29 | FW | BAN | Motin Mia |
| 32 | GK | BAN | Mehedi Hasan |
| 36 | GK | BAN | Hamidur Rahman Remon |
| 40 | DF | BAN | Tariq Kazi |
| 41 | FW | BAN | Obaidur Rahman Nawbab |
| 44 | DF | IRN | Khaled Shafiei |
| 49 | DF | BAN | Tareq Miah |
| 58 | MF | BAN | Mahdi Khan |
| 71 | FW | BAN | Rimon Hossain |
| 99 | MF | BAN | Fahim Morshed |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| No. | Pos | Player | Previous club | Fee | Date |
| 8 | MF | Jonathan Fernandes | Botafogo | Free | 21 August 2020 |
| 44 | DF | Khaled Shafiei | Saipa F.C. | Free | 30 October 2020 |
| 9 | FW | Raúl Becerra | Umm Salal SC | Free | 31 October 2020 |
| 58 | MF | Mahdi Khan | Sporting Bengal United F.C. | Free | 21 December 2020 |
| 20 | FW | Eleta Kingsley | Arambagh KS | Free | 1 April 2021 |
| 41 | FW | Obidur Rahman Nawbab | Al-Duhail SC | Free | 8 April 2021 |

### Loans in

| No. | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| 10 | FW | Robinho | Fluminense | Free | 5 August 2020 | |

### Transfers out

| No. | Pos | Player | Moved to | Fee | Date |
| 91 | DF | Akhtam Nazarov | FC Istiklol | Free | 12 June 2020 |
| 35 | DF | Nicolás Delmonte | Zamora CF | Free | 13 June 2020 |
| 26 | FW | Daniel Colindres | Saprissa | Free | 11 June 2020 |
| 20 | MF | Bakhtiyar Duyshobekov | FC Abdysh-Ata Kant | Free | 12 June 2020 |
| 28 | FW | Hernan Barcos | A.C.R. Messina | Free | 31 October 2020 |
| 27 | FW | Nihat Jaman Ucchash | Arambagh KS | Free | 3 November 2020 |
| 88 | MF | Robiul Hasan | Dhaka Mohammedan | ৳1500000 ($17700) | 17 April 2021 |

## Pre-season & friendlies
### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Void or Postponed  Fixtures

### Maldives tour

In 2020, Bashundhara Kings were going to play two friendlies against TC Sports Club and Maziya S&RC as a part of pre-season camp in Maldives, but later cancelled.

### Friendly
## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| BPL | 13 January 2021 | 20 September 2021 | Matchday 1 | Winner | 23 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 57 | 10 | +47 | 086.96 |
| Federation Cup | 22 December 2020 | 10 January 2021 | Group stage | Winner | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 100.00 |
| Independence Cup | September 2021 | October 2021 | Group stage | Did not held | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| AFC Cup | 18 August 2021 | 24 August 2021 | Group stage | Group | | | | | !— | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 28 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 67 | 11 | +56 | 089.29 |
Last updated: 20 September 2021 Source: Competitions

### Federation Cup
#### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Bashundhara Kings | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 6 | Knockout-stage |
| 2 | Chittagong Abahani | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Knockout-stage |
| 3 | Rahmatganj MFS | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 | |

#### Knockout phage
### Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Bashundhara Kings (C, Q) | 24 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 60 | 10 | +50 | 65 | Qualification for AFC Cup Group stage |
| 2 | Sheikh Jamal DC | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 53 | 28 | +25 | 52 | |
| 3 | Dhaka Abahani (Q) | 24 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 65 | 29 | +36 | 47 | Qualification for AFC Cup qualifying play-offs |
| 4 | Saif Sporting Club | 24 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 48 | 37 | +11 | 44 | |
| 5 | Chittagong Abahani | 24 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 28 | +10 | 44 | |
* ↑ Sheikh Jamal cannot qualify for Asian Football Confederation competitions as they were not granted an AFC Cup license for 2022.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 20 September 2021. Source: Soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | - | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | - | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | D |
| Position | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### Matches
### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mohun Bagan SG | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 7 | Inter-zone play-off semi-finals |
| 2 | Bashundhara Kings | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 5 | |
| 3 | Bengaluru | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | |
| 4 | Maziya (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | −8 | 0 | |

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

    As of match played till 20 September 2021
| Rank | Player | Position | Total | BPL | AFC Cup | Federation Cup | Independence Cup |
| 1 | Robinho | FW | 24 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Raúl Becerra | FW | 21 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 3 | Fernandes | MF | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Tawhidul Alam Sabuz | FW | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Topu Barman | DF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Mohammad Ibrahim | MF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Mahbubur Rahman Sufil | FW | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Biplu Ahmed | MF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Khaled Shafiei | DF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Eleta Kingsley | FW | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | 71 | 58 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
Source: Matches