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The Bangladesh Football Federation or BFF is the governing body of football in Bangladesh. It controls the country's Bangladesh national football team, Bangladesh women's national football team and youth national teams and oversees all aspects of the country's football.
The BFF is based at BFF Bhaban Motijheel, Dhaka near Bangabandhu National Stadium.

History

BFF was founded on 15 July 1972, by Md. Yousuf Ali (Bangladesh) (former Education, Culture and Sports Minister). Prof. Yousuf Ali presided the association with Abul Hashem of Wari Club as general secretary.

It became affiliated with Asian Football Confederation and FIFA in 1973 and 1976 respectively. Bangladesh was elected as member in the AFC Executive Committee 1982-86 and 1998-02. Major Hafizuddin Ahmed (Bangladesh) was elected vice president of Asian Football Confederation for 1990-94.

The BFF continued the Dhaka League that started in 1948, after the independence of Bangladesh. It gained huge fanship and support and continued with premier, first, second and third divisions in the process.
In 1980, the Federation started top the Federation Cup (Bangladesh), which grew to be the country's top national cup competition.
In 1992,

In 2009 it launched the Super Cup (Bangladesh) tournament, the highest budgeted football tournament organised by BFF, which kicked-off in 2009 for the first time and it was won by club Mohammedan SC beating arch-rivals Abahani Limited (Dhaka), the country's professional football league
- National Football Championship (Bangladesh), the country's national semi-pro league that had its last season in 2005-06
- Federation Cup (Bangladesh)
- Super Cup (Bangladesh)
- Senior Division Football League (Dhaka), the new name for the Dhaka League
- Club Cup (Dhaka)

Official partners

In April 2008, the BFF secured BDT 16,00,00,000 (equivalent to USD 22,85,714 appx) for three years from a multinational mobile operator company, Citycell (Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited) for three years as sponsorship for Bangladesh Football Federation, which is a record in the football sponsorship money securing in the history of Bangladesh football.

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