2023–24 Independence Cup
Tournament details
Host countryBangladesh
DatesQualifying:
20–23 October 2023
Competition proper:
27 October – 18 December 2023
Teams13
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored28 (2 per match)
Best goalkeeper4 players
(2 Goals each)

The 2023–24 Independence Cup, also known as the 2023 Independence Cup is the 13th edition of the Independence Cup, Bangladesh's top division clubs & services teams football cup tournament.[1] A total of 13 teams are contesting in the tournament.[2][3]

Bashundhara Kings is the defending champion. They have won the title by beating Sheikh Russel KC by 2(4)−2(1) penalties shoot out on 5 December 2022.[4]

Participating teams

The following thirteen teams will contest in the tournament.

Team Appearances Previous best performance
Bangladesh Police FC3rdSemi-finals (2021–22)
Bashundhara Kings4thChampions (2018, 2022–23)
Brothers Union11thQuarter finals (2017–18, 2018)
Chittagong Abahani8thChampions (2016)
Abahani Limited Dhaka13thChampions (1990, 2021–22)
Mohammedan SC13thChampions (1972, 1991, 2014)
Fortis FC2ndGroup stages (2022–23)
Rahmatganj MFS13thSemi-finals (2017-18)
Sheikh Russel KC9thChampions (2013)
Sheikh Jamal DC9thRunners-up (2012–13)
Bangladesh Army3rdQuarter-final (1991)
Bangladesh Navy3rdGroup-stage (2022–23)
Bangladesh Air Force3rdGroup-stage (2022–23)

Venues

Originally the Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium in Cumilla was included as one of the host venues for the tournament, however, the district cricket league has prevented the Cumilla District Sports Association from lending the district stadium. Thus, instead of four, the tournament will be held at three venues locations.[5]

Munshigonj
Shaheed Bir Sreshtho Flight Lt. Matiur Rahman Stadium
Capacity: 10,000
Location of the stadiums for the 2023–24 Independence Cup (Bangladesh)
Gopalganj Dhaka
Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani Stadium Bashundhara Kings Arena
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 14,000

Round and dates

Dates/Year Round Match dates
27 October–18 December 2023 Qualifying stages 20–23 October 2023
Group stages 27 October – 1 December 2023
Quarter-finals 3–4 November 2023
Semi-finals 7 November 2023
Final 18 December 2023

Draw

The draw ceremony were held on 23 October 2023 at 3rd floor of BFF house Motijheel, Dhaka. There are thirteen team was divided into four groups. Top two team from each group will through in the Knockout stage.[6]

Group Summary

Group A Group B
Bangladesh Police FC Abahani Limited Dhaka
Sheikh Jamal DC Sheikh Russel KC
Brothers Union Rahmatganj MFS
Bangladesh Air Force
Group C Group D
Mohammedan SC Bashundhara Kings
Fortis FC Chittagong Abahani
Bangladesh Army Bangladesh Navy
Qualifying Pair-1 Qualifying Pair-2
Bangladesh Air Force Football Team Bangladesh Army Football Team
Bangladesh Navy Football Team Dhaka University Football Team

Match officials

Referees
  • Bangladesh Md Alamgir Sarker (†)
  • Bangladesh Md Anisur Rahman Sagor
  • Bangladesh Mahmud Zamil Farouqee Nahid
  • Bangladesh Md Mizanur Rahman
  • Bangladesh Golam Mourshed Chowdhury Nayan
  • Bangladesh Bituraj Barua
  • Bangladesh Md Jalal Uddin
  • Bangladesh Md Saymoon Hasan Sany
  • Bangladesh Bhubon Mohon Torafder
Assistant Referees
  • Bangladesh Md Nuruzzaman
  • Bangladesh Sujoy Barua
  • Bangladesh Rasel Mahmud
  • Bangladesh Bituraj Barua
  • Bangladesh Junayed Sharif
  • Bangladesh Md Mizanur Rahman
  • Bangladesh Shafiqul Islam Emon
  • Bangladesh Bikash Sarker
  • Bangladesh Md Mahmudul Hasan Mamun
  • Bangladesh Sheikh Iqbal Alam
  • Bangladesh Md Shah Alam
  • Bangladesh Sabuj Kumar Das
  • Bangladesh Md Shohrab Hossain

(†): working as both referee and assistant referee.

Qualifying play-offs

Play-off 1
Team 1 Score Team 2
Bangladesh Army 2–0 Bangladesh Air Force
Play-off 2
Team 1 Score Team 2
Bangladesh Navy 2–0 Dhaka University
Elimination play-offs
Team 1 Score Team 2
Bangladesh Air Force 2–0 Dhaka University

Matches

Play-off

All times at local (UTC+6)

Bangladesh Air Force0–2Bangladesh Army
Report
  • Emtiyaz Raihan 57'
  • Mijanur Rahman 89'
Referee: Md Anisur Rahman Sagor
Dhaka University0–2Bangladesh Navy
Report
  • Arman Foysal Akash 24'
  • Jewel 72'
Referee: Md Alamgir Sarker

Elimination play-offs

Bangladesh Air Force2–0Dhaka University
  • Khalidul Islam Samy 30'
  • Reza 63'
 Report
Referee: Mahmud Zamil Farouqee Nahid

Group stages

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout-stage

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bangladesh Police FC 2 2 0 0 3 0 +3 6 Advance to Knockout stage
2 Sheikh Jamal DC 2 1 0 1 4 1 +3 3
3 Brothers Union 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0
Source: GSA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Bangladesh Police FC2–0Brothers Union
  • Manas Karipov 23'
  • Edis Ibargüen García 67'
 Report
Referee: Saymoon Hasan Sany
Brothers Union0–4Sheikh Jamal DC
Report
Referee: Md Alamgir Sarker
Sheikh Jamal DC0–1Bangladesh Police FC
Report
  • Manas Karipov 26'
Referee: Md Jalal Uddin

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Abahani Limited Dhaka 3 3 0 0 6 0 +6 9 Advance to Knockout stage
2 Rahmatganj MFS 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1 4
3 Sheikh Russel KC 3 1 1 1 1 2 −1 4
4 Bangladesh Air Force 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0
Source: GSA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Abahani Limited Dhaka2–0Bangladesh Air Force
 Report
Referee: Md Anisur Rahman Sagor
Sheikh Russel KC0–0Rahmatganj MFS
Report
Referee: Md Mizanur Rahman
Bangladesh Air Force0–1Sheikh Russel KC
Report
Referee: Bhubon Mohon Torafder
Rahmatganj MFS0–2Abahani Limited Dhaka
Report
Referee: Md Saymoon Hasan Sany
Rahmatganj MFS4–1Bangladesh Air Force
  • Murad Hossain Chowdhury 33'
  • Samin Yasir Juel 44', 55'
  • Rofiqul Islam Sumon 90+4'
 Report
  • Juwel Miah 32'
Referee: Bituraj Barua
Abahani Limited Dhaka2–0Sheikh Russel KC
 Report
Referee: Md Alamgir Sarker

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Mohammedan SC 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 2 Advance to Knockout stage
2 Bangladesh Army 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
3 Fortis FC 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
Source: GSA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Mohammedan SC2–2Bangladesh Army
  • Arif Hossain 20'
  • Jafar 67'
 Report
  • Emtiyaz Raihan 9'
  • Ranju Sikder 24'
Referee: Bituraj Barua
Bangladesh Army0–0Fortis FC
Report
Referee: Md Jalal Uddin
Fortis FC1–1Mohammedan SC
 Report
  • Minhajul Abedin Ballu 74'
Referee: Bhubon Mohon Torafder

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bashundhara Kings 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3 Advance to Knockout stage
2 Chittagong Abahani 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
3 Bangladesh Navy FT 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Updated to match(es) played on 28 October 2023. Source: GSA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Bashundhara Kings1–0Bangladesh Navy
 Report
Referee: Golam Mourshed Chowdhury Nayan
Bangladesh Navy1–1Chittagong Abahani
  • Salim Reza 12'
 Report
Referee: Mahmud Zamil Farouqee Nahid

Knockout stage

  • In the knockout stages, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
3 December–
 
 
Bangladesh Police FC
 
7 December –
 
Rahmatganj MFS
 
Winner QF1
 
4 December –
 
Winner QF3
 
Dhaka Mohammedan
 
18 December –
 
 Runner Up Group D
 
Winner SF2
 
3 December –
 
Winner SF2
 
Dhaka Abahani
 
7 December –
 
Sheikh Jamal DC
 
Winner QF2
 
4 December –
 
Winner QF4
 
Champion Group D
 
 
Bangladesh Army
 

Quarter-finals

Bangladesh Police FCvRahmatganj MFS
TBD
Abahani Limited DhakavSheikh Jamal DC
TBD
Mohammedan SCvRunner Up Group D
TBD
Champion Group DvBangladesh Army
TBD

Semi-finals

Winner QF1vWinner QF3
TBD
Winner QF2vWinner QF4
TBD

Final

Winner SF1vWinner SF2
TBD

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 28 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match (as of 4 November 2023).

2 goals

1 goal

Source: GSA

See also

References

  1. ↑ "লিগ কমিটির দায়িত্ব নিয়েই চমকের ইঙ্গিত সালাউদ্দিনের!". Offside Desk (in Bengali). September 24, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  2. ↑ "ঢাবির হার দিয়ে শুরু ঘরোয়া ফুটবল মৌসুম". www.dhakapost.com (in Bengali). October 20, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  3. ↑ "২৭ অক্টোবর স্বাধীনতা কাপ দিয়ে শুরু নতুন মৌসুম". www.deshrupantor.com (in Bengali). October 23, 2023. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Indy Cup Football: Bashundhara Kings clinch title beating Sheikh Russell KC in penalty shootout". www.unb.com.bd. December 5, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Abahani, Kings placed in separate groups". The Daily Star. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  6. ↑ "আবারও কিংসের গ্রুপে চট্টগ্রাম আবাহনী, শেখ রাসেলের সঙ্গী আবাহনী". www.kalerkantho.com (in Bengali). October 23, 2023. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
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