WAPDA Sports Club


WAPDA Sports Club is a multi-sports club based mainly in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The club is owned by the Bangladesh Power Development Board. The club was well known for its football team which participated in domestic football prior to the turn of the century.

Club name

WAPDA entered the First Division Football League of East Pakistan in 1970 as East Pakistan WAPDA. The club coached by former Pakistan national team captain, Abid Hussain Ghazi, mainly consisted of player who were employed at the Bangladesh Power Development Board. The club also had a wing established in both Chittagong and Khulna, which saw them produce new talents each season.
Following the Independence of Bangladesh, the club was renamed as Bangladesh WAPDA. During the first-leg of the 1973 Dhaka League, WAPDA, led by brothers; Nowsheruzzaman and Sharifuzzaman, were league leaders before internal conflict saw them eventually finish mid-table. In the same year, the first Bangladesh national football team was announced, which included four players from the club – Nowsheruzzaman, Sharifuzzaman, Dilip Barua and Sunil Krishna Dey Chowdhury.
WAPDA suffered relegation to the Dhaka Second Division Football League in the 1984 season, and failed to return to the top-flight ever since. In the early 2000s, the club's football department, along with many other of its sports departments, stopped functioning.

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