Defending Champions Bashundhara Kings have withdrawn from the upcoming Federation Cup just a day before it kicked off, as they denied to play at the Bir Shrestha Shahid Sipahi Mostofa Kamal Stadium and accused Bangladesh Football Federation of fixture manipulation.
In a letter sent to the General Secretary of BFF, Abu Nayem Shohag, Kings said that they were withdrawing from the tournament following a ‘serious violation to the fixtures presented to clubs’.
The tournament was set to start on Saturday and the draw was held on Thursday at the BFF office in Motijheel. In the draw, Kings were seeded into group A.
Primarily, teams qualifying from group A were to face teams qualifying from group C in the quarter-finals. But later, it was changed so that qualified teams from group A would face qualified teams from group B, whereas qualified teams from group C would face teams from group D.
