Nat\\\'l School Football to begin Wednesday
Monday, 22 September 2014
The knock-out basis 2nd Islami Bank National School Football Tournament will begin Wednesday at the Khulna division venue, reports BSS.
The matches of the tournament will also begin in seven divisions - Barisal, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Chittagong, Dhaka and Dhaka Metropolitan area. For the second time, Islami Bank continued their sponsorship with Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for the school football meet after successfully hosting in 2011-12.
Some 5400 schools from 540 upazila across the country will take part in the meet, sponsored by Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited.
Each participating school will be given Tk 1000.00 as participation money. The champions and runners-up teams of the divisional phase will be given Taka 50,000.00 and 25,000.00 while the champions and runners-up teams of the final round will get Tk 100,000.00 and 50,000.00 respectively.
Education Ministry's Senior Assistant Secretary Abu Kaisar Khan, BFF General Secretary Abu Nayeem Sohag, competition committee members Jasim Uddan Joshi and Elias Hossain were, among others, present.