Women's Kabaddi League
Franchise-based Women's Kabaddi League next January
The first-ever franchise based Women's Kabaddi League, organized by Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation, begins here in January next year.
The six franchise teams are: Motlab Thunders, Adventure Land Park, Bengal Warriors, Dhaka Twelves, Eco Fresh International and Techno Media -- will participate in the inaugural meet.
Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation (BKF) from the very beginning took the initiative to arrange franchise based men's kabaddi league, but it was possible due to various reasons and finally they decided to organize Women's Kabaddi in next January.
Meanwhile, BKF formed a strong committee to arrange the Franchise Women's Kabaddi League with Federation's joint secretary and additional DIG (Development) of Bangladesh Police Gazi M Mozammel Haque as chairman and Federation treasurer Arif Mihir as the member secretary.
The committee in its last meeting on Saturday, finalized the league schedule and format.
Kabaddi Federation will select 12 players for every participating team with one icon player in each side without any players drafted and later all the 72 players of the six teams will be given a two-month long training prior to the league under the supervision of Kabaddi Federation.
The remaining 66 players except six icons, will be put in different categories and different payment structures.
Six Icon players are: Bristi Biswas, Rupali Akhter, Hafiza Akhter, Sharmin Sultana, Dishamoni Sarkar and Smriti Akhter.
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