The 5th Bashundhara Kings Corporate Football Fiesta, powered by AdexGroup, is all set to kick-off on Thursday at the city’s International Turkish Hope School astro-tur in Dhaka.
After four successful editions, the organisers, Leo Entertainment Sports Management introduced a new category under the tournament’s banner – Corporate Open – to engage more non-professional football lovers from the working community.
A total of 12 teams – Bashundhara Kings, Comfit Composite Knit Ltd, Bando Design Ltd, Therap BD, MTB, IDLC, HSBC, City Bank, X digital agency, Executive XI from Chevron, Pathao and Step Footwear – will be competing in the Corporate Masters, where the employees of the respective company will take part as players.
Meanwhile the newest format, Corporate Open will see eight teams – Neo Zipper, Interport Group, Save and Serve Foundation, Wintex Fashion Ltd, Apparel Industry Ltd, Laila Group, Bongo BD and Torque Fashion Ltd taking part. The Open category allows a team fielding non-professional footballers outside their company.
Bashundhara Kings, a Bangladesh Premier League football club, is the sponsor of the 20-team corporate tournament. The club president Imrul Hassan said, “We are delighted to be able to support the corporate football community through this tournament. Apart from running a professional football club, Bashundhara are always trying to spread football across the country in every way possible. I wish all the participating teams’ good luck.”
City Bank, Fusion Sports, Laila Group and Petromax LPG are among the associate partners while Race are supporting the tournament as internet partner. Plaantik are digital partner and Dhaka Tribune are the media partner of the 10-day event.
