Four clubs yet to send names

The Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) is still waiting for the names of representatives of four premier division clubs despite the fact that the deadline of submitting names to the league committee passed on January 21.

Usha, Dhaka Wanderers, Bangladesh SC and Victoria SC have not yet sent names of their representatives after all 13 premier league clubs were requested to do so on January 14, just two days after the formation of a 31-member ad-hoc committee.

The league committee is scheduled to have its first meeting on Thursday to discuss the inter-club players' transfers, which was last held in early 2016. However, due to the absence of those names, the start of the premier league, which was was last held in 2016, may be in jeopardy.

League committee secretary Moinuzzaman Pila, though, is optimistic that all representatives would attend its first meeting after the game's governing body sent another letter to the clubs to attend.

“We have communicated with the clubs and they have promised to attend the meeting. Let's see what happens on Thursday,” said Pila.

The executive committee meeting had earlier fixed a tentative players' transfer schedule from February 18 to 20 so that the national team players could take part in the qualifying tournament of Asian Games to be held in Oman in March.