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