2012–13 Bangladesh Women's Football League Explained

Competition:	Bangladesh Women's Football League
Season:	2012–13
Dates:	23 February – 30 March 2013
Winners:	Dhaka Abahani Women
Matches:	12
Total Goals:	129
Best Player:	Sabina Khatun (Dhaka Mohammedan Women)
League Topscorer:	29 goals Aungmraching Marma (Dhaka Abahani Women)
Prevseason:	2011–12
Nextseason:	2019–20

The 2012–13 Bangladesh Women's Football League, also known as the Walton Dhaka Metropolis Women's Football League 2013 due to sponsorship reason, it was the 2nd season of domestic women's club football competition in Bangladesh organized by Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF). The 8 teams were participated in the tournament.^[1]

Dhaka Abahani Women are current champions. The club have defeated Dhaka Mohammedan Women by 3–1 on 5 March 2013 to lift the trophy for the first time.^[2]

Venue

Dhaka
Bangabandhu National Stadium
Capacity: 36,000

Participating teams

The following eight teams will contest in the tournament.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
Dhaka Abahani Women	1st
Arambagh KS Women	2nd
Bangladesh Police FC Women	1st
Dipali Jubo Sangha	2nd
Feni SC Women	1st
Jatrabari Krira Sangha	1st
Dhaka Mohammedan Women	2nd	Runners-up (2011)
Nasrin Sports Academy	1st

Group summary

Group A	Group B
Arambagh KS Women	Bangladesh Police FC Women
Dipali Jubo Sangha	Dhaka Abahani Women
Jatrabari Krira Sangha	Feni SC Women
Dhaka Mohammedan Women	Nasrin Sports Academy

Round and dates

Dates/Year	Round	Match dates
23 February – 30 March 2013	Group stages	23 February – 2 March 2013
	Semi-finals	27 March
	Final	30 March

Group stages

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout-stage
	Later withdrew

TiebreakersTeams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

• In the knockout stages, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

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Statistics

Goalscorers

Notes and References

1. Web site: Walton DMWFL to start Saturday next . 2013-02-21 . archive.bff.com.bd.
2. News: Abahani clinch women's football league title . Dhaka Mirror . 31 March 2013 . 2020-08-13.