Saif Sporting Club

Saif SC
Full nameSaif Sporting Club Limited
FoundedAugust 2016; 8 years ago (August 2016)
Dissolved3 August 2022; 2 years ago (3 August 2022)
(only football department)
GroundMunshigonj District Stadium
Capacity10,000
OwnerSaif Powertec Limited
Final season
2021–22		BPL, 3rd of 12
(dissolved)
Websitehttp://saifsportingclubltd.com/

Saif Sporting Club was an association football club based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Founded in 2016, the club competed in the Bangladesh Premier League, the top flight of Bangladeshi football, from 2017 to 2022.[1] On 3 August 2022, the club owners announced that the club will temporarily withdraw from professional football due to insufficient commercial returns from it, days after the end of 2021–22 Bangladesh Premier League.[2][3] They also finished third in the league, which is the best top-tier league result of the club's history.[4][5] The club played their homes games at Munshiganj Stadium in their final season.

In their inaugural season, the club achieved promotion to top flight as the runners-up of 2016 Bangladesh Championship League. Saif SC played 2018 AFC Cup qualifying play-offs in their only continental campaign of history.[6] As the country's first-ever corporate company-owned club, Saif SC gained popularity within a short time for having more professionalism and youth system than most other Bangladeshi clubs. Though the club have pulled out of all sorts of footballing activities, it continued its indoor games departments and stated that it may comeback in football in future under favorable situation.[3]

  1. ^ "Bangladesh – Saif Sporting Club – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news – Soccerway". Int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Saif SC's hands tied by income disparity". The Daily Star. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Saif Sporting withdraws from football league". New Age. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Saif SC withdraw from all footballing activities". The Daily Star. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  5. ^ "'We are still wondering what just happened'". The Daily Star. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Saif SC confirm AFC Cup". The Daily Star. 3 January 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2023.