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 * Atiqur Rahman Atiq


 * Ranjit Das


 * Mahmudul Hasan (footballer)


 * Fakrul Islam Kamal


 * Kohinoor Rahman


 * Mahfuzul Mamun Babu


 * Fazlur Rahman Arzu


 * Ramma Lusai


 * Nazir Ahmed Alok


 * Zakir Hossain Badal


 * Golam Shahid Neelu


 * Mohamed Rakib Hossain

Statsistics

 * Football records and statistics in Bangladesh
 * History of Bangladeshi football
 * Bangladesh national football team records and statistics
 * 2019 Bangladeshi football casino scandal
 * Match fixing in Bangladeshi football
 * Abahani Limited Dhaka in international football
 * Football in Dhaka
 * Bangladesh national football team results (unofficial matches)

Clubs

 * Cox City Club
 * Fire Service SC
 * Bangladesh Government Press SRC
 * Alamgir Shomaj Kollayan KS
 * Rainbow Athletic Club
 * BRTC Sporting Club
 * Siddikbazar Dhaka Junior SC
 * East Pakistan Gymkhana

Regional teams

 * Dacca Division football team
 * Chittagong Division football team
 * Dhaka District football team
 * East Pakistan football team

Continental

 * BTC Club Clup
 * 1986 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
 * 1987 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
 * 1989 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
 * 1993 Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
 * 1977 Aga Khan Gold Cup
 * 1979 Aga Khan Gold Cup
 * 1981–82 Aga Khan Gold Cup
 * 2013 Bangladesh Super Cup

Domestic

 * Chittagong Football League
 * Dhaka Football League
 * 1986 Dhaka First Division League
 * 1997–98 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 1999 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 2000 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 2001 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 2002 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 2003–04 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * 2004–05 Dhaka Premier Division League
 * Bashundhara Champions Club Cup

Referee

 * Monir Hossain (football referee)
 * Dalil Khan

Old Players

 * Mohammed Mala
 * Saidur Rahman Patel
 * Ainul Haque

Current Players

 * Sarower Zaman Nipu
 * Mehedi Hasan (footballer)
 * Md Nahian
 * Rahim Uddin
 * Sakib Bepari
 * Mohammad Asif (footballer)
 * Asadul Molla
 * Akmol Hossain Noyon
 * Md Sabbir Hossain

Foreign

 * Uryu Nagata
 * Soma Otani
 * Muzammil Hassimdeen
 * Tom Ossen

Not enough coverage

 * Rostam Islam Dukhu Mia
 * Choumrin Rakhaine
 * Sadekujaman Fahim
 * Md Imran Khan
 * Sabbir Hossen

Drafts

 * Amir Hakim Bappy

Birth of Bengali football
Before Independence in 1971, the 30s and 40s saw the football rivalry between Kolkata and Dhaka started under DSA (Dhaka Sporting Association), which was mainly created to develop players on the east. The majority team was made out of students from Dhaka University. During the liberation war in 1971, football was the way to create international awareness about the war of independence. The Swadhin Bangla Football Team was established which played 16 matches in India and was officially received by the BFF in 2009. Zakaria Pintoo, who was the captain of that team and the first person to wave Bangladesh’s flag in foreign land.

The period before the 1990s saw national soccer fever in league football, specifically in the Dhaka League, which possessed club teams which were famous both at home and abroad. League football was popular even before independence, from the 1940s to 1960s under Pakistan. There were quite a number of well established football clubs in Dhaka in the 1940s, notable clubs which participated in the historical Dhaka League from 1933 till the country's partition from Pakistan were Wari Club, Victoria SC, Lakshibazar Club, East End Club, Central Jail XI, Dhaka Wanderers Club and Tejgaon Friends Union, EP Gymkhana, Railways, and Fire service. A match between East Pakistan Governors XI vs. West Bengal XI was held at Dhaka in the late forties, which also attracted thousands of fans into the stadium. The first Dhaka League was won by Bangladeshi club Victoria SC in 1948, three years prior to the Mother Language Movement while still under Pakistani rule. Many of Dhaka league teams went on to become among the most successful teams in the Asian continent (mostly between the 1970s to the early 1990s). The league also went as far as having players from top European teams. The late 1950s and 1960s saw, Bengali football starting to earn more popularity among the people, when the clubs took part in the Aga Khan Gold Cup, which was held Dhaka every year, the President Gold Cup, Dana Cup and Gothia Cup, were also popular competitions at the time, where clubs from all over Asia participated in.

Early years
Rajani started his career with Agrani Bank in the Dhaka League in 1994. Rajani was paid 40,000 taka to join Agrani, as there was interest from other teams in Dhaka. While playing for the club in 1994, Rajani was called up for the Bangladesh U16 team, for their camp in Saudi Arabia. Before leaving for the camp, the U16 team played a practice match against Mohammedan youth team in Mirpur. Rajnai scored as his team defeated Mohammedan, 2–1. His performance during the game impressed the country's legendary midfielder, the late Badal Roy. Rajani played for Agrani Bank for two years, because then the rule was that if a junior player joins a team, he has to play there for two years.

2013–2019:Promotion and relegation
On 27 December 2013, Baridhara played their first match in the Bangladesh Premier League, they were defeated by defending champions Sheikh Russel KC, with a 2–0 scoreline. The club managed to earn their first victory in their inaugural top tier season by defeating Brothers Union 3–2 during the 5th round of the league campaign, on 24 January 2014. After losing 8–0 to both Sheikh Jamal DC and Muktijoddha KC, the club was relegated after only a year at the top.

Foundation
The club was founded in 1949 and the regal business tycoon Kazi Ghiyasuddin Ahmed, better known as K. G. Ahmed served as the founder chairman, while the former Minister of Education of East Pakistan, the late Zahiruddin and eminent journalist ABM Musa were the first president and general secretary of the club respectively. At the beginning it was a well-known cultural organization. However, during the 1971 Liberation war, Brothers Union shut down all club activities. In 1972, a few months after the war had reached its conclusion and resulted in Bangladesh's independence, Saifuddin Ahmed Manik one of the clubs founding members, had his younger brother Shahiduddin Ahmed Selim recruit veteran Pakistani football coach Abdul Gafur Baloch, with the idea of entering the divisional football Dhaka.

In 1972, Gafur Baloch started holding trails for Brothers Union Youth team, mainly consisting of high school students in Gopibag. Throughout the 70s Baloch's youth team would open a pathway for many future national team stars, including the clubs midfield linchpin Hasanuzzaman Bablu and also their best ever player Mohammed Mohsin. In 1973, Mohsin got a chance to play for the main team, when Brothers resumed playing in the Dhaka Third Division League after the war. The teenage striker scored 39 goals, including a hat-trick and a double hat-trick leading Brothers to promotion as undefeated champions. The following year, he scored 22 goals in the Dhaka Second Divison League, as Brothers secured consecutive promotions again as undefeated champions, booking their place in the 1975 Dhaka League.

During the early years of its rebirth, the club suffered from a major financial crisis due to the war. Although, Brothers resumed all football activities in 1973, the first residential camp of Brothers Union was held at the 48 Ramakrishna Mission Road, Gopibagh, while the club was still playing in the second division league, in 1974. The four-storey building belonged to Saifuddin Ahmed Manik, and Selim who was given the team's captaincy, persuaded his brother to let the the players camp in the two flats on the ground floor without having to pay rent. It was later in 1975, when the club reached the top-tier and appointed former mayor and minister of Dhaka Sadeque Hossain Khoka as their sports secretary, were they able find stable source of funding.

The Emerging Giant
In 1975, Brothers entered the country's top-tier the Dhaka League, and in their first league game they defeated reigning champions Abahani Krira Chakra 1–0, with a goal from Titu. The victory earned Brothers huge admiration from both media and local supporters. During the first phase of the league the club only lost a single game (to Mohammedan SC), and soon became one of the big names in the league. The late 70s saw the clubs attacking duo of Mohammed Mohsin and Hasanuzzaman Bablu establish themselves as one of best in the league, while few of their unsung heros were left-back Noman Nannu, midfielder Abdus Salam and striker Fazlu, who were all products of their youth team. In 1978, Gafur Baloch introduced teenage winger Khandoker Wasim Iqbal to the Dhaka football scene, who scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Mohammedan SC in the league. That year the club also finished the season as runner-up behind Abahani.

The year 1979, was dissapointing one for the club, suffering heaving defeates in the Aga Khan Gold Cup at the hands of BJIC and the Afghanistan XI. Brothers had to wait till 1980 to enjoy their first major trophy success as they shared the first edition of the Federation Cup title with Mohammedan SC, after the final ended 0–0. Later in the season, they defeated the Black and Whites 3–2 in a league encounter, thanks mainly to their talisman goal-scorer, Mohammed Mohsin. This was also Mohammedan's only defeat that year, as they went on to win the league title. The first half of the 1980s saw some new faces in the team, goalkeeper Atiqur Rahman, defenders Shafiqul Islam Manik, Mazidul Islam Moni and Azmat Ali were regulars in the team. While midfielder Mosaddek and striker Mahmudul Haque Liton soon made their way into the Bangladesh national team. In 1981, Mohammed Mohsin enjoyed his best top-flight season, becoming top-scorer with 20 goals.

It was later in 1981, at the Aga Khan Gold Cup where The Oranges acheived their biggest success, by becoming the first Bangladeshi team after independence to win the title. They cruised through the group-stage, to face the tournament favourites the Oman, surprisingly winning 3–1, with goals from Wasim Iqbal, Bablu and Fazlu. In the final against Bangkok Bank, the underdogs equalised through Monwar Babu with the game ending 1–1, the two teams were declared join champions. However, the title triumph was followed by a number of setbacks, as long-term serving defender Shahiduddin Ahmed Selim announced his retirement and coach Gafur Baloch, also ended his decade-long career with Brothers. In 1982, the clubs marksmen Mohsin was severely injured by a cracker while playing an exhibition game. In 1984, the injured Mohsin became player cum coach, and guided the club into making Bangladesh domestic football history by defeating Dilkusha SC 15–0 in the league.

Title Collapse & New Generation
In 1985, coach Ali Imam who lead Abahani to two consecutive league titles the previous year joined The Oranges. Imam was forced out by the Abahani authorities who appointed Kazi Salahuddin as their head coach. The Dhaka Sporting Association, introduced the 3 point system in the league, and at that time the system was only used in England. With Imam determined for revenge, his side played were unbeaten in the first phase of the league and were 2 points ahead of Mohammedan SC, and five points ahead of Abahani. However, in the Super league Brothers dropped points, and went into their final league match, against Abahani knowing that a victory would win the league After taking 2–0 lead early on in the game, Wasim Iqbal's famous miss to make it 3–0 saw The Oranges lose the match 3–2, ending hopes for their first Dhaka League title. The clubs all time top scorer Mohsin who played limited games after his injury in 1982, retired at the end of the season.

In 1986, Ghafor Baloch returned to Brothers and brought with him a young Monem Munna from Muktijoddha Sangsad KC, Munna guided an average Brothers team to a third place finish and left for Abahani the next year, while Baloch also announced his retirement at the end of the season. With Baloch's retirment, the clubs famous youth team barely functioned, resulting in a decline of quality players coming out of the club. In 1991, Brothers found their first solo success by winning the Federation Cup under former player turned coach Shahiduddin Ahmed Selim. During the tournament The Oranges captained by Nurul Haque Manik, kept a strong defence marshalled by Arif Hossain Moon. In the semi-final Brothers thrashed Fakirerpool Young Men's Club 3–0, setting up the final with Mohammedan SC who themselves had won a Dhaka Derby semi-final on penalties. The well anticipated final went to penalties after a goalless draw, where Brothers won 4–2.

Brothers made their AFC competition debut by participating in the 1992–93 Asian Club Championship qualifiers as the 1991 Federation Cup winners. They were eliminated in the first round after suffering an aggregate 0–2 defeat to Pakistani club Wohaib FC. In 1993, a gentlemen's agreement was established between Brothers, Abahani, and Mohammedan to reduce player wages and refrain from recruiting players from one another, this opened an opporunity for Muktijoddha Sangsad to sign their top players on a higher wage, although it did not affect the other two teams as much as it did Brothers, as the club struggled to remain in the top-flight. In the 1995 Lifebuoy Premier League, the Oranges finished 8th, only five points clear of the drop. The club would not make the top three again until the turn of the century.

Champions of Bangladesh
In 2004, the Brothers club authorities brought in Syed Nayeemuddin from India, as the clubs coach cum technical advisor. The team manager Amer Khan also kept former Brothers midfielder Abu Noman Nannu, as the second head coach. The strong coaching staff was accompanied with the signings of regualr national team players including Arman Mia, Alfaz Ahmed, Mohammed Sujan and Biplob Bhattacharjee. Nontheless, The Oranges were eliminated in the first round of the season's curtain raiser, the Federation Cup. Amidst all the doubt that team would go on to create history by winning the clubs first ever Dhaka League title, with Alfaz Ahmed and Arman Mia establishing one of the best attacking partnerships in the league. In the last game of the season against Muktijoddha Sangsad, winger Monwar Hossain scored the only goal to end the clubs 29-years wait for the league title. They dedicated their top-tier league triumph to their former coach, the late Abdul Gafur Baloch.

The club followed their inaugural league triumph, by winning the 2004 National Football League. Arman Mia and Alfaz Ahmed's goals in the semi-final against Abahani Limited set up an underdog final between Brothers and Muktijoddha KSC, which The Oranges eventually won 2–4 on penalties, due to substitute goalkeeper Mohammed Ali's heroics. Towards the end of that year, Brothers won the Bordoloi Trophy in India, defeating Shillong XI 1–0 in the final, this was also the clubs first international achievement. In 2005, veteran football coach Wazed Gazi took over from Nayeemuddin as the clubs head coach. He lead The Oranges to the Federation Cup title after 14 years, infront of a 10,000-strong crowd at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, which mainly consisted of Brothers fans, Moroccan striker Adil Okero scored the lone goal against Muktijodda Sangsad to clinch the title, while goalkeeper Atiqul Islam Tareq also produced a man of the match performance.

In wake of their first National League triumph in 2004, Brothers took part in the 2005 AFC Cup. Striker Saiful Islam Khokon scored their inaugural goal in the competiton, during a 1–1 draw with Turkmen club Nisa Aşgabat. However, Brothers were knocked out of the group-stages after failing to win any of their other two fixtures. After a dissapoining continental campaign, Wazi Gazi's team bounced back by winning the Dhaka League title for the consecutive time, while the clubs Russian striker Edward Victor was also the leagues top scorer. With the league introducing a Championship Playoff match that season, Brothers faced Mohammedan SC in the title deciding game, and captain Mohammed Sujan scored the only goal of the match from the penalty spot.

After winning the domestic double in 2005, The Oranges qualified for the 2006 AFC Cup. However, they dissapointed in the tournament, and only claimed two points from six games. They opened the tournament with a 2–0 defeat to Bahrain champions Al-Muharraq SC, and in the next match tied 2–2 with India's Federation Cup winners Mahindra United, with goals from Zahid Hasan Ameli and Abul Hossain. In the next couple of games Brothers were thrashed by the Lebanese champions Al Ahed FC, 1–3 and 2–6 respectively. They ended their AFC Cup campaign with a goalless draw against Al-Muharraq and a 0–1 defeat at the hands of Mahindra United, to finish bottom of their group with a −9 goal difference. The holders were also knocked out of the semi-finals of the 2005–06 National Football League by Mohammedan. During the semi-finals, club secretary Sabbir Ahmed Arif assaulted assistant referee Shahidul Islam Lalu and referee Tayeb Shamsuzzaman. The incident occurred just before the final whistle, after Brothers midfielder Rezaul Karim Liton attacked the referee upon receiving a second yellow card and being sent off.

Decline and relegation
In preparation for the 2007 B.League, the inaugural edition of the country's first professional football league, Brothers secured contracts with veterans Amit Khan Shuvra, Jewel Rana, Masud Rana, Monwar Hossain, and Rezaul Karim Liton. Nonetheless, the club lost many integral players from their consecutive league title triumphs to Dhaka Abahani, while coach Wazed Gazi also departed for Sheikh Russel KC. The club re-appointed Indian head coach Syed Nayeemuddin, who previously led them to their first National League and Dhaka League titles in 2004. On 3 March 2007, Brothers defeated Chittagong Abahani 3–0 in their maiden professional league match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The club's Nigerian recruit Junior Obagbemiro scored a brace, while local striker Ashraful Quader Monju scored the third goal. The club ended the season in fifth position, with striker Junior Obagbemiro clinching the top-scorer's award with 16 league goals.

The following season, Brothers appointed club legend Khandoker Wasim Iqbal as head coach and managed to rope in former captain Mohammed Sujan on a contract worth Tk 10 lakh. Nonetheless, the club finished fourth that season, with 10 wins, 7 draws and 3 defeats from 20 league games. Nigerian striker, Henry Quae, was the club's top scorer in the league with six goals followed by 20-year old winger Zahid Hossain, who scored five league goals. Brothers also dissapointed at the Federation Cup, as they failed to qualify from their group which included Third Division League club BKSP and Senior Division League club Victoria SC.

On 17 August 2021 Brothers Union lost by 4–0 goals against Muktijoddha Sangsad KC and result of the match confirmed relegation of the club from Bangladesh Premier League. Its their first ever relegation after formation of the club.

Training ground
The Brothers Union field in Gopibagh, has been an integral part to their success, as they are one of the few clubs in the country to have a training ground of their own. In 1977, when the field was owned by Bangladesh Bank, some of the clubs players were jailed for taking possession of the ground. In order to gain the Gopibagh field's ownership, the clubs general secretary, Sadeque Hossain Khoka had to bring the country's president Lt. General Ziaur Rahman to the field. The president then stood on the field and announced. Although Bangladesh Bank, later tried hard to reclaim the Gopibagh field's ownership, they were unsuccessful due to the president's decision. It is also the largest practice ground used by a professional football club in Dhaka. In May 2023, Bangladesh Bank clashed again with Brothers over the possession of the ground, as the club prevented the bank from constructing walkways around the field, stating that it would increase the risk of injuries for players.