The Afghanistan cricket team toured Bangladesh in September and October 2016 to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) matches.

[1] It was also Bangladesh's first home bilateral ODI series against an Associate Nation since Ireland toured in 2008.

[3] Ahead of the ODI series there was a fifty-over warm-up game between the Bangladesh Cricket Board XI and Afghanistan in Fatullah.

This was Bangladesh's sixth consecutive series victory in ODIs.

[6] Taskin Ahmed was added to Bangladesh's squad after his bowling action was cleared by the International Cricket Council (ICC).