Full name | Bangladesh Navy Football Team | ||
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Short name | BNFT | ||
Founded | 1971 | ||
Head coach | Md Mamun Mollah | ||
League | National Football Championship | ||
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Bangladesh Navy Football Team ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ নৌবাহিনী ফুটবল দল) represents the Bangladesh Navy in football and competes in the National Football Championship, which is the main national district tournament in the country. [1] They also participate in the Independence Cup [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] and previously played in the Federation Cup. [7] [8]
The Navy team consists of players who play professionally in the Bangladesh Premier League, Championship League and semi-professionally in the Dhaka League and its lower tiers, while still being employed in the Bangladesh Navy.
In May 2015, Navy hired 6 national team footballers, marking the first time in the history of Bangladesh that footballers from the national team had joined a services team. [9]
The players below have senior international cap(s) for the Bangladesh national football team.