Sonali Bank and Shadharan Bima will feature in the inaugural match of the UCB Club Cup Hockey at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium at 1:00pm tomorrow.
Later at 3pm Abahani Ltd will face Dhaka Wanderers in the second match of the opening day. The other three clubs of the seven-team meet, which by tradition has always served the purpose of a warm-up tournament of the premier division hockey league, are Usha KC, Ajax SC and Azad SC.
The four rebel hockey clubs - Mohammedan, Mariners, Wari and Bangladesh Sporting Club - who declared not to play under the current executive committee remained out of the tournament.
The champions of the meet will receive a purse of Tk30000 while the runners-up will get Tk20000.
In a press conference held at the Bangladesh Hockey Federation yesterday tournament secretary Anvir Adil Khan presented the meet to the press. Sponsors United Commercial Bank will provide Tk200000 for the tournament while the approximate budget of the event is Tk250000.
