Kathmandu: Nepali football team all set to take Bahrain u-23 in the final match of Bangabandu Gold Cup 2016 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka. This is the first final for the Nepali senior team in 17 years.of any International football tournament. Nepal had played the final match of the South Asian Games in 1999. The match will kick off from 4:45 Nepali Time and will be officially Broadcasted on Bangladesh’s Channel 9.
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Nawayug Shrestha’s Hattrick on the semifinal match against Maldives helped Nepal secure their place for the final of Bangabandu Cup. Nepal entered the tournament as an underdog who had just experienced a bizarre SAFF tournament. With number of players Under the age of 23, Nepal defeated Srilanka and settled draw with Malaysia and Bangladesh and reached to the semi final as a runner despite sharing equal points with Bangladesh.
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FIFA ranking
Bahrain
Current 121 3 (7 January 2016)
Highest 44 (September 2004)
Lowest 139 (March 2000)
Nepal
Current 196 4 (7 January 2016)
Highest 124 (December 1993, 15 February 1994)
Lowest 196 (January 2016)
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Nepal, unbeaten in all four matches of the tournament, is also in good form scoring five goals and conceding only one, with three players on scoresheet. Nawayug Shrestha became the first player to score a hat-trick in the ongoing tournament.
Bahrain U-23 had managed to make it to the title match despite having a difficult tournament where they finished runners-up to Maldives in Group ‘B’ before edging Bangladesh 1-0 in the semi-finals.
(Fifa Rank source : wikipedia)
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