Bangladesh national football team

Bangladesh national football team () is the national football team of Bangladesh and is controlled by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF). It is a member of the Asian Football Confederation, and became a member of FIFA in 1974. Even though the Bangladesh Football Federation was first founded in 1972. Bangladesh was elected as a member of the AFC Executive Committee in 1982–1986 and 1998–2002. The current Executive Committee was elected democratically, under an AFC approved constitution and direct supervision of FIFA & AFC, in April 2008.

Team image

Colours
The Bangladesh national football team plays in bottle green shirts and dark red shorts embedded. Also with red and green stripes. Green and red are the historic national colours of Bangladesh, originating from the national flag of Bangladesh. The red represents the sun rising over Bengal, and also the blood of those who died for the independence of Bangladesh. The green stands for the lushness of the land of Bangladesh. The current Bangladesh away jersey is completely diametric to the regular one.

Home stadium
Bangladesh plays majority of their home matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, where they won the SAFF Championship in 2003 and 2010 South Asian Games football gold medal. The Bangabandhu National Stadium also hosted both 2009 and 2018 SAFF Championships. Occasionally home matches are also played at MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong, Sylhet District Stadium in Sylhet, Rajshahi District Stadium in Rajshahi and Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore. Since 2020, the Bangabandhu National Stadium was once again used as the teams home venue and after the 2021 Bangladesh Premier League season, the stadium went under a year-long renovation process, as BFF have planned to organize both Bangladesh Football League and future football related events on the ground.

Media coverage
Bangladesh's home and away qualifiers and friendlies both home and away are broadcast live on Bangladesh Television , Bangla TV & T Sports  (Bangladesh).

Results and fixtures
Matches in the last 12 months, and future scheduled matches

2021

Coaching staff

Coaching history
Interim coaches are listed in italics.

  Sheikh Saheb Ali (1972–1975)
  Abdur Rahim (1975)
  Anjam Hossain (1976)
  Werner Bickelhaupt (1978–1979)
  Zakaria Pintoo (1979)
  Gofur Baluch (1982)
  Gerd Schmidt (1982)
  Golam Sarwar Tipu (1984)
  Ali Imam (1984)
  Kazi Salahuddin (1985–1988)
  Abdul Hakim (1986)
  Wazed Gazi (1987)
  Nasser Hejazi (1989)
  Pran Govinda Kunda (1989)
  Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim (1991)
  Mohammad Kaikobad (1992)
  Oldrich Swab (1993)
  Kang Man-young (1994)
  Otto Pfister (1995–1997)
  Abu Yusuf (1998)
  Samir Shaker (1998–1999)
  Mark Harrison (2000)
  Hasanuzzaman Bablu (2000)
  György Kottán (2000–2003)
  Golam Sarwar Tipu (2003)
  Andres Cruciani (2005–2007)
  Hasanuzzaman Bablu (2006)
  Sayeed Hassan Kanan (2007-2008)
  Syed Nayeemuddin (2007–2008)
  Abu Yusuf (2008)
  Shafiqul Islam Manik (2008)
  Dido (2009)
  Shahidur Rahman Shantoo (2009)
  Zoran Đorđević (2010)
  Saiful Bari Titu (2010)
  Robert Rubčić (2010–2011)
  Nikola Ilievski (2011)
  Saiful Bari Titu (2012)
  Lodewijk de Kruif (2013–2014)
  Saiful Bari Titu (2014–2015)
  Lodewijk de Kruif (2015)
  Fabio Lopez (2015)
  Maruful Haque (2015–2016)
  Gonzalo Sanchez Moreno (2016)
  Lodewijk de Kruif (2016)
  Tom Saintfiet (2016)
   Andrew Ord (2017–2018)
  Jamie Day (2018–2022)
  Óscar Bruzón (2021)
  Mário Lemos (2021)
  Javier Cabrera (2022–present)

Coaching record

Players

Current squad
The following 23 players were named to the final squad for the 2021 Mahinda Rajapaksa Trophy.

Caps and goals updated as of 16 November 2021 after the match against .

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Recent call-ups
The following players have also been called up to the Bangladesh squad within the last twelve months.

INJ Withdrew due to injury
PRE Preliminary squad / standby
COV Withdrew due to COVID-19
RET Retired from the national team
SUS Serving suspension
WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.

Player records

Players in bold are still active with Bangladesh.

Most appearances

Top goalscorers

Competitive record

FIFA World Cup record
Bangladesh has taken part in every FIFA World Cup qualification campaign since 1986, although they have never advanced to a further round during qualifying.

AFC Asian Cup record

SAFF Championship

AFC Challenge Cup

Mujib Borsho FIFA International Football Series

The Mujib Borsho FIFA International Football Series was held in the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The series included two games against Nepal. Bangladesh won the series with an aggregate scoreline of 2-0 after Nabib Newaj Jibon and Mahbubur Rahman Sufils goals earned the team victory in the first of the two games. The second game of the series was held four days later, the game finished goalless.

Asian Games

Honours
 SAFF Championship
 Champions (1): 2003
 Runner-up (2): 1999, 2005
 Third-Place (2): 1995
 South Asian Games
 Gold medal (1): 1999
  Silver medal (4): 1984, 1985, 1989, 1995
  Bronze medal (1): 1991
 Bangabandhu Gold Cup
 Runner-up (1): 2015
 Quaid-E-Azam International Cup
 Runner-up (1): 1985
 Third-place (1): 1987
 President's Gold Cup
 Champions (1): 1989
 Four-nation International Invitational Football Tournament
 Champions (1): 1995
 Myanmar Grand Royal Challenge Cup
 Runner-up (1): 2005
 Mujib Borsho FIFA International Football Series
 Champions (1): 2020
 Three Nations Cup
 Runner-up (1): 2021

References

Other websites
 Bangladesh Football Federation
 Bangladesh FIFA profile
 ELO team records

Asian national football teams
Sport in Bangladesh