Bangladesh B is a secondary football team run occasionally as support for the Bangladesh national football team.
History In 1981, the Bangladesh Football Federation started the President's Gold Cup, in which two Bangladesh national teams would participate—the national green team and the national red team. Gafur Baloch, who guided the Bangladesh U19 team at the 1980 AFC Youth Championship, was made the red team's head coach. The team mainly consisted of players who participated in the AFC Youth Championship the previous year. Baloch guided them to the final, in which they lost to South Korea XI. Since then, the B team participated in every edition of the President's Gold Cup. They were known as Bangladesh Green from 1982 to 1986 and again from 1989 to 1993. In 1987 they were called Bangladesh Blue, when the team mainly consisted of players from Abahani Krira Chakra. The blue team managed to defeat the Syria national team 1–0. In the 1989 edition, the green team, mainly consisting of youth international players, defeated the India national team 1–0.
The team last has participated in the 2007 Merdeka Cup (as Bangladesh B).
Coach history Abdul Gafur Baloch (1981) Golam Sarwar Tipu (1982) Abdus Sadek (1983) Abdul Hakim (1986) Kazi Salahuddin (1987) Sazzad Hossain Siddique Lavlu (1989) Abdul Gaffar (1993) Hasanuzzaman Bablu (2007)
Results and fixtures 1981
1982
1983
1986
1987
1989
1993
2007
Competitive record Bangladesh President's Gold Cup Bangladesh President's Gold Cup recordYearResultPositionGPWDLGFGAName1981Runners-up2nd522144Bangladesh Red1982Group-stage5th311122Bangladesh Green 1983Group-stage9th4013510Bangladesh Green 1986Group-stage7th604217Bangladesh Green 1987Group-stage4th311124Bangladesh Blue 1989Semi-final3rd421131Bangladesh Green 1993Group-stage8th330014Bangladesh Green
Source = RSSSF
Other tournaments Invitational tournament recordYearResultPositionGPWDLGFGAName2007 MerdekaGroup-stage7th301224Bangladesh B
Honours President's Gold Cup runners-up: 1981
See also Football in Bangladesh Bangladesh Football Federation Bangladesh National Team Bangladesh Women's Team Youth Teams Bangladesh U-23 Team Bangladesh U20 Team Bangladesh U17 Team
References
External links President's Gold Cup at RSSSF 2007 Merdeka Cup at RSSSF