section_path: Sports
section_name: Sports
paragraph_text: Sports
  
  Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club was vandalized. Abahani Limited Dhaka was looted and vandalized. The residence of Nazmul Hassan, President of Bangladesh Cricket Board, was vandalized. The Narayanganj Rifles' Club was burned down.
  
  In January 2025, the venue of a local women's football match at Akkelpur Upazila of Joypurhat District was vandalised by an enraged mob of Muslim men, who claimed that Muslim women's participation in sports was un-Islamic. A similar incident of women's football tournament being halted by Islamist vandals occurred at Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur district.