After SQ Sports was charged with fixing and delaying payments to players, it was banned from participating in cricketing activities so were all the other franchisees owners for corruption scandals.

[4] Then Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) changed the format of the tournament and acquired ownership for all the teams for the 2019–20 season.

[6] In the inaugural season, Chittagong Kings had a strong squad with the likes of Mahmudullah Riyad, Dwayne Bravo, Kevon Cooper and Jason Roy.

The team retained Mahmudullah and Jason Roy while they gained some reinforcements in the likes of David Miller and Ryan ten Doeschate.

Chittagong Vikings emerged as the new representative team of the port city in the BPL, under a new name and ownership of DBL Group.

The Vikings retained Tamim as icon while they signed some big names such as Chris Gayle and Shoaib Malik The team was pretty good throughout the tournament but not the best.

Subsequently, in September 2019, BCB made some changes in rules and regulations for this season and eliminating all franchises, BCB took over the charge of the current BPL and decided to run this current tournament by the board itself and named the tournament as Bangabandhu BPL T20 2019 in order to pay homage to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.

They signed the likes of Chris Gayle and Mahmudullah Riyad;[9] this time they performed well in group stage, winning eight matches and losing four.

Before the drafts the franchise recruited left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed and three foreign players Benny Howell, Kennar Lewis and Will Jacks as their direct signing.

Overseas Players include Avishka Fernando, Bilal Khan, Curtis Campher, Tom Bruce and Romario Shepherd.