Bashundhara Complex to host Kings’ matches
Bashundhara Sports Complex and Rajshahi are the two fresh venues for the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), set to begin from February 3 and played in a total of seven venues across the country.
Aside from these two latest entrants, BPL had seen 15 more venues used in its previous 13 editions.
However, it is the first time in Bangladesh that a professional football club -- Bashundhara Kings -- will be hosting all of their league matches at their own venue. Sheikh Russel KC have also expressed their desire to use the same complex as their home venue.
Due to the unavailability of the Bangabandhu National Stadium, the Dhaka-based clubs have been forced to make their home venues outside the capital.
"A technical committee has looked into the Bashundhara Sports Complex's matters such as the measurement of the ground, distance between gallery and the ground, dressing rooms, media box, galleries and parking. The complex will be ready by January 25. So, we have selected it as one of the premier venues for the league," BFF's senior vice-president Abdus Salam Murshedy said after a league committee meeting yesterday.
"Rajshahi stadium just completed a sporting event [cricket] but we think it has yet to fulfil some requirements such as proper equipment for watering the ground in dry season, painting and other smalls works to uplift the venue which also has the floodlight facility," said Murshedy, adding that renovation or final works at five other venues have been going on and to be made ready, except for the Cumilla Stadium, before the start of the league.
Bangladesh Police have made the Rajshahi Stadium as their home venue.
Apart from these two venues, the five other venues are: Sylhet (home venue for Abahani), Cumilla Stadium (home venue for Mohammedan and Chattogram Abahani), Munshiganj Stadium (home venue for Sheikh Jamal and Saif), Gopalganj Stadium (home venue for Muktijoddha Sangsad) and Tongi Stadium (home venue for Rahmatganj and Swadhinata).
The home venue of Uttar Baridhara Club has not been decided yet.
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