Gafur Baloch, who guided the Bangladesh U19 team at the 1980 AFC Youth Championship, was made the red team's head coach.

The team mainly consisted of players who participated in the AFC Youth Championship the previous year.

Baloch guided them to the final, in which they lost to South Korea XI.

Since then, the B team participated in every edition of the President's Gold Cup.

In 1987 they were called Bangladesh Blue, when the team mainly consisted of players from Abahani Krira Chakra.