The2021 Independence Cup also known asRiviera Independence Cup 2021 due to the sponsorship from Riviera. It was the 12th edition of theIndependence Cup, the main domestic annual top tier clubsfootball tournament organized byBangladesh Football Federation (BFF). The fifteen participants were competed this edition in the tournament.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
The draw ceremony of the tournament was held on 23 November 2021 15:00 at 3rd floors of BFF houseMotijheel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. There are fifteen teams were divided into four groups. Top two team's from each group will throughKnockout stage.[14]
Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout-stage
Tiebreakers
Teams were ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams were tied and they met in the last round of the group;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
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 apenalty shoot-out to determine the winner.
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Dorielton
Bitura Barua
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Daniel Colindres (Dhaka Abahani)
Tetsuaki Misawa (Muktijoddha Sangsad KC)
Amredin Sharifi (Bangladesh Police FC)
Nedo Turković (Swadhinata KS)
Ahmed Shamsaldin (Muktijoddha Sangsad KC)
Solomon King Kanform (Sheikh Jamal DC)
Philip Adjah (Rahmatganj MFS)
Esmaël Gonçalves (Sheikh Russel KC)
Souleymane Diabate (Dhaka Mohammedan)
Emeka Ogbugh (Saif Sporting Club)
Rafał Zaborowski (Swadhinata KS)
Evgeniy Kochnov (Uttar Baridhara Club)
