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2020 Bangabandhu Gold Cup

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Tournament details
Host country	Bangladesh
Dates	15–25 January
Teams	6 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Palestine (2nd title)
Runners-up	Burundi
Tournament statistics
Matches played	9
Goals scored	28 (3.11 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jospin Nshimirimana (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Jospin Nshimirimana
Best goalkeeper	Tawfiq Ali
Fair play award	Palestine
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The 2020 Bangabandhu Gold Cup or simply 2020 Bangabandhu Cup was an international football tournament organized and hosted by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) as a name of tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. This was the 6th edition of the tournament, with six teams competing from 15 to 25 January 2020.

Palestine were the defending champions and successfully defended their title after beating Burundi 3–1 on 25 January 2020.

Participating nations

The FIFA Rankings of participating national teams before the draw, as of 19 December 2019.

Country	FIFA Ranking	Previous best performance
Bangladesh (Host)	187	Runners-up (2015)
Palestine	106	Champions (2018)
Burundi	151	Debut
Mauritius	172	Debut
Seychelles	200	Debut
Sri Lanka	205	Group stage (2016)

Draw

The draw was held on 4 January 2020 at 12:00 BST at Pan Pacific Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka. The 6 teams were drawn into 2 groups of 3, by selecting one team from each of the 3 ranked pots.

Venue

All matches were held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dhaka	Dhaka
Bangabandhu National Stadium
23°43′40.2″N 90°24′48.4″E / 23.727833°N 90.413444°E / 23.727833; 90.413444 (Dhaka)
Capacity: 36,000 seats

Match officials

Group stage

• Times listed are UTC+6:00 (BST)

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palestine	2	2	0	0	4	0	+4	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Bangladesh (H)	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3
3	Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2	0	5	−5	0

Bangladesh	0–2	Palestine
	Report	Salem 28' Kharoub 58'

Palestine	2–0	Sri Lanka
Abu Warda 90+3' Salem 90+6'	Report

Sri Lanka	0–3	Bangladesh
	Report	M. Mia 17', 64' Ibrahim 83'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Burundi	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Seychelles	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1
3	Mauritius	2	0	1	1	3	6	−3	1

Mauritius	1–4	Burundi
François 3'	Report	Nshimirimana 28', 47', 85' Ndikumana 41'

Burundi	3–1	Seychelles
Nshimirimana 54' Tambwe 60', 61'	Report	Monnaie 26'

Seychelles	2–2	Mauritius
Waye-Hive 19' Monnaie 28'	Report	Ferré 67' François 90+1'

Knockout stage

• Times listed are UTC+6:00 (BST)
• 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

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 January – Dhaka
	Palestine	1
					25 January – Dhaka
	Seychelles	0
					Palestine	3
	23 January – Dhaka
					Burundi	1
	Burundi	3
	Bangladesh	0

Semi-finals

Palestine	1–0	Seychelles
Kharoub 79'	Report

Burundi	3–0	Bangladesh
Nshimirimana 43', 45+2', 79'	Report

Final

Palestine	3–1	Burundi
Salem 3' Maraaba 10' Kharoub 26'	Report	Ndikumana 60'

Goalscorers

There were 28 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 3.11 goals per match.

7 goals

• Jospin Nshimirimana

3 goals

• Layth Kharoub
• Khaled Salem

2 goals

• Motin Mia
• Asman Ndikumana
• Amissi Tambwe
• Adrien François
• Perry Monnaie

1 goal

• Mohammad Ibrahim
• Jason Ferré
• Mahmoud Abu Warda
• Sameh Maraaba
• Gervais Waye-Hive

Sponsorship

Local sports marketing company K–Sports bought the rights for this edition of the tournament and provided all the expenditures.

Prize money

The following prize money amounts were given at the end of the tournament.

Broadcasting rights

Country	Broadcaster	Ref.
Bangladesh	RTV BTV
Burundi	BeTV
Mauritius	MBC1
Palestine	Al-Quds TV
Seychelles	StarTimes
Sri Lanka	Dialog TV

References

1. "নাটকীয়ভাবে আরেক দল বাড়লো বঙ্গবন্ধু গোল্ডকাপে". Jagonews24.com (in Bengali). 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
2. "Bangabandhu Gold Cup defers to next year". Dhaka Tribune. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
3. ^ "Palestine rout Burundi 3-1 to retain Bangabandhu Gold Cup title". Dhaka. United News of Bangladesh. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
4. "Bangabandhu Gold Cup Football to begin on Jan 15". United News of Bangladesh. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
5. "Palestine win Bangabandhu Gold Cup after penalty drama". BFF. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
6. "Palestine beats Burundi to retain Bangabandhu Gold Cup title". The Financial Express. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
7. "FIFA Rankings – 19 December 2019". FIFA. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
8. "Bangladesh, Palestine in same group". The Daily Star. 4 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
9. "Six-nation event from Jan 15 at BNS only". The Daily Star. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
10. "K-SPORTS to sponsor Bangabandhu Gold Cup". United News of Bangladesh. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
11. "Bangabandhu Gold Cup kicks off Wednesday". United News Bangladesh. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

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