See also: Brothers Union cricket team.
| Clubname: | Brothers Union |
| Fullname: | Brothers Union Limited |
| Nickname: | The Oranges |
| Ground: | Muktijuddho Sriti Stadium |
| Capacity: | 15,000 |
| League: | Bangladesh Premier League |
| Position: | 2023–24, 10 of 10 |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Current: | 2024–25 Brothers Union season |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Azmol Hossain Biddyut |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Chairman: | Ishraque Hossain[1] |
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Brothers Union (Bengali: ব্রাদার্স ইউনিয়ন) is a professional football club based in Gopibagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It currently competes in the Bangladesh Premier League, the top flight of Bangladeshi Football.
The club was founded in 1949, patroned by local Gopibagh businessmen. Nicknamed the Oranges, Brothers Union spent the late 70s and early 80s as one of the pioneers of Bangladeshi football, behind Abahani Limited Dhaka and Dhaka Mohammedan. Throughout their history, Brothers Union has built a reputation for spotting and developing young talent, especially during the club's legendary coach Abdul Gafur Baloch's regime from 1972 to 1986.[2]
The club earned promotions from the Dhaka Third Division Football League and Dhaka Second Division Football League in 1973 and 1974, respectively. They entered the First Division in 1975, however, had to wait till the 2003–04 season to win their first league title. Their second league triumph came in the following season, in 2005. The club has also found success at continental level, jointly winning the 1981–82 edition of the Aga Khan Gold Cup, becoming the first and only local club to win the tournament since the Independence of Bangladesh.[3]
Brothers Union were one of the founding members of the Bangladesh Premier League in 2007. They remained in the professional league, until facing relegation at the end of 2021–22 Premier League. The club withdrew from the second-tier, the Championship League in the following season and eventually gained promotion back to the top-flight as champions of the 2022–23 Championship League.[4] [5]
Originally, the club was a well-known cultural organization founded 1949 with business tycoon K. G. Ahmed serving as its first chairman. Brothers Union formed its football team in 1973 and they began playing in the Dhaka Third Division Football League that year. Next year, they were promoted to the Second Division Football League. In 1975, Brothers won the Second Division title and the club was promoted to the top tier. Brothers won their first major title, the Dhaka League in 2004.
| Position | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Azmol Hossain Biddyut | |
| Team manager | Amer Khan | |
| Assistant coach | Omar Sisse | |
| Team leader | Syed Masum Ali | |
| Assistant manager | Hashem Mollah | |
| Assistant coach | Md Khalid Shaifullah | |
| Trainer | Faisal Mahmud | |
| Equipment Manager | Tapan Talukdar | |
| Physiotherapist | Nazrul Islam | |
| Masseur | Md Rubel |
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| President | Ishraque Hossain |
| Member Secretary | Sabbir Ahmed Arif |
Interim or caretaker coaches are listed in italics.
Gafur Baloch (1972–83) Gafur Baloch (1986)
Syed Nayeemuddin (2003–04) Syed Nayeemuddin (2011–12)[6] [7] Syed Nayeemuddin (2013–15) Syed Nayeemuddin (2016) Subrata Bhattacharya Jr. (2017)
Giovanni Scanu (2017)
Nicolas Vitorović (2017–18)
Gregory Farfan (2018) Syed Nayeemuddin (2018–19)| Coach | From | To | P | W | D | L | GS | GA | %W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bal Gopal Maharjan | 1 June 2016[8] | 20 August 2016 | |||||||
| Syed Nayeemuddin | 3 September 2016 | 31 December 2016 | |||||||
| Subrata Bhattacharya Jr. | 11 May 2017[9] | 10 June 2017 | |||||||
| Giovanni Scanu | 12 July 2017[10] | 5 August 2017 | |||||||
| Nicolas Vitorović | 20 August 2017[11] | 27 January 2018 | |||||||
| Gregory Farfan | October 2018 | November 2018 | |||||||
| Syed Nayeemuddin | 15 November 2018 | 30 April 2019 | |||||||
| Mohidur Rahman Miraz | 1 May 2019 | 22 December 2019 | |||||||
| Reza Parkas | 28 December 2019[12] | 27 December 2020 | |||||||
| Abdul Qaium Sentu | 28 December 2020 | 16 February 2021 | |||||||
| Reza Parkas | 10 March 2021 | 20 September 2021 | |||||||
| Sheikh Zahidur Rahman Milon | 2 November 2022 | 20 April 2023 | |||||||
| Faisal Mahmud (caretaker) | 20 October 2023[13] | 30 December 2023 | |||||||
| Omar Sisse | 10 January 2024 | 1 February 2024 | |||||||
| Ali Asgar Nasir (interim) | 1 February 2024 | 8 February 2024 | |||||||
| Azmol Hossain Biddyut | 9 February 2024 | 30 May 2024 |
| Record as Professional Football League member | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Division | League | Federation Cup | Independence Cup | Asian club competition | Top league scorer(s) | |||||||||
| Player | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | B.League | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 19 | 29 | 5th | — | — | — | Junior Obagbemiro | 16 | |
| 2008/09 | B.League | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 34 | 23 | 37 | 4th | Group-stage | Henry Quae | 6 | |||
| 2009/10 | B.League | 24 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 26 | 7th | Group-stage |  Enock Bentil | 10 | |||
| 2010/11 | B.League | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 5th | Semi-finals | Quarter-finals | Kingsley Chigozie | 8 | ||
| 2012 | BPL | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 25 | 35 | 24 | 7th | Group-stage | — | Kingsley Chigozie | 9 | ||
| 2012/13 | BPL | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 11 | 8th | Quarter-finals | Group-stage | Kingsley Chigozie | 6 | ||
| 2013/14 | BPL | 27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 35 | 33 | 38 | 5th | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | 8 | |||
| 2014/15 | BPL | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 21 | 35 | 5th | Quarter-finals | — | 15 | |||
| 2016 | BPL | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 37 | 34 | 30 | 4th | Quarter-finals | Group-stage | 13 | |||
| 2017/18 | BPL | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 22 | 7th | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Siyo Zunapio | 10 | ||
| 2018/19 | BPL | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 28 | 49 | 21 | 11th | Group-stage | Semi-finals | Mannaf Rabby | 8 | ||
| 2019/20 | BPL | Abandoned | Group-stage | — |  Otabek Valizhonov | 3 | |||||||||
| 2020/21 | BPL | 24 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 51 | 7 | 13th | Group-stage | Faisal Mahmud Siyo Zunapio | 3 | |||
| 2021/22 | BCL | Did not participate | — | — | |||||||||||
| 2022/23 | BCL | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 51 | Champions | Md Sohag Hossain | 6 | ||||
| bgcolor=gold | Champions | bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | Third place | bgcolor=palegreen | Promoted | bgcolor=red | Relegated |
| Ranking | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3430 |  Persiraja Banda Aceh | 10.72 | |
| 3431 |  AS Komorozine de Domoni | 10.72 | |
| 3432 | Brothers Union | 10.68 | |
| 3433 |  Chyasal Youth Club | 10.60 | |
| 3434 |  Quality Distributors FC | 10.60 |
| Ranking | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 622 |  Druk United FC | 11.0 | |
| 623 | Persiraja Banda Aceh | 11.0 | |
| 624 | Brothers Union | 11.0 | |
| 625 | Chyasal Youth Club | 11.0 | |
| 626 | Quality Distributors FC | 11.0 |
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