Bangladesh U-16 Women’s Football team made a good start in the four- nation SAFF U-16 Women’s Championship 2024, beating hosts Nepal by 2-0 goals at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur Saturday afternoon.

Bangladesh scored both the goals in the first half.

After the match, Head Coach of Bangladesh team AKM Saiful Bari Titu expressed his satisfaction over the match

In a post match press conference Saturday afternoon Bangladesh coach said ” As a first match, the performance was okay, but a lot of improvement to be done, specially, the chances we have created, we should score more goals”.

In the remaining league basis matches, Bangladesh will play their giant rivals India on March 5 and will meet Bhutan on March 8 at the same time and same venue.

Top two teams will play in the final on March 10.

Earlier, India also made a flying start crushing Bhutan by 7-0 goals in the tournament opener at the same venue Friday afternoon.

Shveta Rani, Pearl Fernandes, Anushka Kumari scored two goals each while Anwita Raghuraman netted the remaining goal for India.