Bangladesh women's football team captain Sabina Khatun is excited about the prospect of playing against former World champions and Asian Games winners Japan in debut Asian Games appearance IN in Hangzhou, China next week.

Bangladesh national women's football team players are set to come under a professional contract with the Bangladesh Football Federation.

Soon after securing a place in the finals of the 2017 AFC U-16 Women's Championship, Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) wanted to have a talented group of girls feature on a bigger stage -- the 2018 Asian Games. However, the board had to backtrack on their decision following heavy media criticism for throwing the inexperienced girls into unknown territory.

Saiful Bari Titu has been appointed the head coach of the Bangladesh Women’s national football team for September's Asian Games, Women’s Wing chairman of the Bangladesh Football Federation Mahfuza Akter Kiran confirmed.

The Bangladesh Football Federation on Tuesday announced a 22-member women’s squad for the upcoming 19th Asian Games.

Bangladesh coach Mahbubur Rahman Litu expressed his satisfaction over the performance of his charges despite seeing them concede a stoppage time equaliser against Nepal in their FIFA friendly fixture at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur yesterday.

The mood that gripped the Bangladesh women's football team the last time they played an international football match is a far cry from the one that currently pervades in the team.

Bangladesh Football Federation’s technical director Paul Smalley will not be part the women’s football team’s FIFA friendlies against Nepal in Dhaka, an aberration for the British national who has been a regular fixture of the women’s team since his appointment in 2016.

Bangladesh Football Federation’s women’s wing chairman Mahfuza Akter Kiron has said that BFF has arranged funds to accommodate the women’s football team at Hotel InterContinental, the same hotel that visiting Nepal team are staying, despite its financial insolvency.

With no domestic or international engagement on the cards, the national women's team footballers started returning to the residential camp yesterday after enjoying a five-day break as the Women's Super League (WSL) failed to kick off.

“The parliamentary standing committee [on Youth and Sports] expressed their dissatisfaction after the SAFF Championship-winning Bangladesh women’s team failed to take part in the Paris Olympic qualifiers,” read out a statement from the parliamentary standing committee on the Youth and Sports Ministry

Hosts Bangladesh tasted their first defeat in the ongoing SAFF U-17 Women’s Championship when the girls in red and green suffered a 3-0 defeat to their Russian counterparts at the Shaheed Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium on Wednesday.

Shaheda Akter Ripa and captain Shamsunnahar scored the two goals within a space of four minutes of the first half before Unnoti Khatun put the final nail on Nepal’s coffin in the 87th minute of the match

Women's empowerment – a gift of liberation – has already been a significant force behind development.

Our national women’s football team’s victory surely gives us all, especially the women, an extraordinary level of confidence.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines, responsible for ground handling services at the Dhaka Airport, today claimed that the representatives of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and the concerned football players received their luggage in proper condition.

A common scene preceding a friendly neighbourhood football match is random players gathering and two seniors-turn-captains taking turns in picking the players. Usually, the top strikers are recruited first, followed by playmakers, wingers, and so on. 

‘’Our eleven girls fought against eleven oppositions players on the field, but we were only around 100 Bangladeshi up against 20,000 local fans,” Arif Islam, one of the fortunate ones who got the opportunity to witness the Bangladesh team’s historic triumph from the stands at Kathmandu’s Dasarath Stadium on Monday, shared his ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’ with The Daily Star today.

Golam Rabbani Choton, Bangladesh women's football team head coach, praised captain Sabina Khatun highly for her on-ground leadership that helped the women in red and green to hold their nerves despite falling into a difficult situation in the last quarter of the SAFF Women's Championship final in Kathmandu tonight.

Indian coach Suren Kumar Chettri congratulated Bangladesh for their maiden win against India in the SAFF Women's Championship on Tuesday.