5 foreigners can be registered

The Bangladesh Premier League clubs will be allowed to register five foreign players, however teams will be eligible to field only four of them in a game. This was decided at an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday.

The decision was made, in face of the demands from most clubs, to allow teams to have a fall-back for unseen injuries or drop in form.

The meeting also decided to stick to the bylaws, that they would relegate two teams from the top two tiers of professional league, thereby approving the demotion of both NoFeL SC and Team BJMC and the subsequent promotion of Police AC and Uttar Baridhara Club, despite requests from a number of clubs to demote only one club from the top tier.

The meeting, chaired by Professional League Committee Chairman Abdus Salam Murshedy, also discussed the possibility of incorporating venues inside or near Dhaka for the top leagues so as to minimize the load on the Bangabandhu National Stadium, subject to those venues meeting required infrastructural and logistic standards.