Team BJMC

Team Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (Team BJMC) was a football club in Bangladesh that was mainly located in the city of Dhaka.

History

The club was formerly known as East Pakistan IDC prior to 1971 and Bangladesh JIC from 1971 until 1975, when the club was renamed as Team BJMC. In 1981, the club had stopped all their football related activities. However, after 29 years, in 2010, they restarted playing professional football under new manager Arif Khan Joy, a former captain of the Bangladesh national team. In 2019, Team BJMC was relegated from the Bangladesh Premier League, the top-tier association football league in Bangladesh and discontinued its football activities the same year.

The Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC), the football club's owner, said the club was being dissolved due to a lack of funds. “Around Tk5-6 crores is required to run a football team. We couldn’t even pay the dues for the players from last season. When we are having trouble paying wages to workers, how can we run [a] football team?” said the BJMC chairman, mentioning that around 1,800 BJMC workers had lost their jobs including athletes from different sports.

Honours

Dhaka First Division League Champions (5): 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1979Bangladesh – List of Champions: Dhaka League Rsssf. Retrieved 12 August 2021. Dhaka Second Division League Champions (2): 1965, 1988–89 Dhaka Third Division League Champions (1): 1964 Independence Cup Champions (1): 1975 All-Pakistan Ismail Gold Shield Champions (3): 1967, 1968, 1969 Independence Day Tournament Champions (3): 1967, 1968, 1969

Notable players The players below had senior international cap(s) for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed, represented their countries before or after playing for Team BJMC. Asia

Abdul Gafur Baloch (1966–68; 1972–73) Mari Chowdhury (1966–67) Abdul Jabbar (1966; 1969) Ayub Dar (1968–69) Ali Nawaz Baloch (1970) Qadir Bakhsh (1970) Maula Bakhsh (1970) Abdul Ghafoor (1970)

References

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