Warning disciplinary actions, football's world governing body FIFA has instructed the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) to immediately deduct three points from Mohammedan SC's current Bangladesh Premier league campaign owing to the club's failure to clear unpaid wages of their former coach Emeka Ezeugo.

The FIFA disciplinary committee had on October 30 instructed the game's local governing body to deduct three points from Mohammedan's tally, but the BFF has not yet taken any action in this regard. On a request from Mohammedan, the BFF wrote to FIFA on November 18, seeking 30 days to clear the unpaid wages and also inquiring whether it is possible to reconsider the deduction of points. However, FIFA has declined the request.

When contacted, BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag admitted receiving such instruction: “We have received a letter from FIFA at the end of last month which instructed us to reduce three points of Mohammedan immediately while refusing extension of the timeframe for clearing the payment.”

Shohag also said that the letter cautioned them of face disciplinary actions, subject to delay of the implementation of the instructions.

Emeka had guided Mohammedan to a third-place finish in the 2011-12 BPL season, but claimed he was not paid a single penny during a press conference in July, 2012. Later the Nigerian filed a complaint to FIFA's disciplinary committee, which ordered the club to clear his wages worth $20,000 in 2015.