Bangabandhu Cup Explained

Region:International
Most Successful Team:
Malaysia
(2 titles each)
Current:2022 Bangabandhu Cup

The Bangabandhu Cup, also known as the Bangabandhu Gold Cup, is an international football tournament organised by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) as a tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is the founding father of Bangladesh. It has been played sporadically since 1996, and was resurrected in 2015.[1]

Up to the 2016 edition, most of the participating countries in the tournament sent their youth national teams, their second teams or club sides. In the 2018 edition, all participating nations sent their first team except the Philippines.[2]

Palestine is the champion, after defeating Tajikistan in the 2018 tournament and defended its trophy against Burundi in 2020.

Results

Year Final
width=10%Championswidth=5%Score width=10%Runners–up
1996–97
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Malaysia
2–1
1999
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Japan
3–2
2015
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Malaysia
3–2
Bangladesh
2016
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Nepal
3–0
Bahrain
2018
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Palestine
0–0
(4–3 PSO)

Tajikistan
2020
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Palestine
3–1
Burundi

Tournament summary

TeamChampionsRunners–up
Malaysia U-232 (1996/97, 2015)0
2 (2018, 2020)0
1 (2016)0
1 (1999)0
01 (2018)
Bahrain U-230 1 (2016)
0 1 (2015)
Ghana U-230 1 (1999)
PSM Makassar0 1 (1996–97)
01 (2020)

Top goalscorers

Top goalscorers by edition

YearsPlayer(s)Goals
Izaak Fatari
Musa Kallon
1999 Lee Chun-soo7
2015 Kumaahran Sathasivam
Pakorn Prempak
2
2016 Nawayug Shrestha4
2018 Komron Tursunov2
2020 Jospin Nshimirimana7

Venues

References

  1. News: Bangabandhu Gold Cup coming to life . 8 March 2015 . The Daily Star . 28 January 2015 . 28 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150128232508/http://www.thedailystar.net/bangabandhu-gold-cup-coming-to-life-49187 . live .
  2. News: First teams add fire . 1 October 2018 . The Daily Star . 1 October 2018 . 9 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200809011500/https://www.thedailystar.net/sports/football/news/first-teams-add-fire-1640899 . live .

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