Bangladesh League

The Bangladesh League (Citycell Bangladesh League for sponsorship reasons) is the top-tier football league of Bangladesh run by the country's football association. It was previously known as the B.League that began in 2007 and in 2009 the league was renamed to the current one. It marked the start of the professional era and an open wide national league.
==History==
A national league was first started in 2000, before that, the Dhaka League was renowned as the top-tier football league in Bangladesh.
In 2007, the winner of the Dhaka League and top club teams mainly from Dhaka and other parts of the country were promoted to the first pro league. The B.League replaced the National Football Championship as the premier national league. A total of 12 clubs were scheduled to participate before Sylhet DSA withdrew and were not replaced.
With clubs playing professional football from all over the country and not from the capital only unlike the Dhaka League, the professional league even then failed to gain the popularity of the Dhaka League and to improve the country's football.
The 2009-10 season brought, along with the change in name of the league, newly-built football clubs like Beanibazar. This might seem promising for the country's football.
No second division league was introduced until in 2011 and this hampered the fate of the relegated teams. Clubs were selected from regional leagues especially from the Dhaka League and called up.
==List of winners==
Season 	Club 	P 	W 	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
2007 	Dhaka Abahani	20	14	5	1	36	8 	47
2008-09	Dhaka Abahani	20	16	2	2	45	11	50
2009-10	Dhaka Abahani	24	22	1	1	63	8 	67
==Total Championships==
The number of national championships that clubs in Bangladesh have attained since the professional Bangladesh League (formally B. League) was introduces is as below.
Club 	Number of Championships
Dhaka Abahani	3
==Bangladesh League 2010-11 teams, stadia and locations==
Club 	Stadium 	Location
Arambagh 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Brothers Union 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Chittagong Abahani 	MA Aziz Stadium 	Chittagong
Chittagong Mohammedan	MA Aziz Stadium 	Chittagong
Dhaka Abahani 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Dhaka Mohammedan 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Farashganj 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Feni Sokar Club 	Bangladesh Army Stadium 	Feni
Muktijoddha Sangsad 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Rahmatganj 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Sheikh Jamal 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
Sheikh Russell 	Bangabandhu National Stadium	Dhaka
 	 	
===Teams relegated in 2009-10 season===
*Beanibazar
*Shukhtara Jubo Sangsad
==Topscorers==
Year		Top scorer 	Team 	Goals
2004		Moni Twaiti Younes 	Muktijoddha Sangsad KC Sheikh Russell	7
2007		Elijah Obagbemiro Junior	Brothers Union 	16
2009		Alamu Bukola Olalekan 	Dhaka Mohammedan 	18
==External links==
*B-League 2006-2007 news @ BanglaFootball.net
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