Dhaka, Sept. 3 -- Bangladesh U-23 football will start their AFC Asian Cup qualification campaign when they face host Vietnam in their opening group C match scheduled to be held at Viet Tri Stadium, Phu Tho province, Vietnam today.

The match kicks off at 7 pm (BST).With the ambition of achieving good results in the AFC U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers in Vietnam, the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) last month sent the team to Bahrain for the first time for a solid preparation by playing two friendly matches against strong Bahraini opponents. In preparation, Bangladesh lost 1-0 and 4-2 goals against their Bahrain counterpart.

Bangladesh has never played in the main round of the AFC U-23 tournament.The boys in red and green, however, arrived...