The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is contemplating walking into the past as the executive committee has decided to ask FIFA's permission to hold the next election according to the 2003 constitution.
After BFF president SA Sultan's meeting with the organisers and ex footballers outside the federation on Tuesday, the executive committee once again ignored the urge to hold a general meeting for open discussion and push the ball into FIFA's court.
The BFF boss had promised to go to the FIFA and explain the difficulties of forming the district and divisional football associations (DFAs) due to technical and legal problems.
"In line with Monday's meeting with organisers, we've decided to request FIFA allow us hold the election according to the previous constitution," said Sultan.
The FIFA gave the BFF executive committee, which expired last April, one year's time to form DFAs and hold the next election.
"Although it is unlikely that the FIFA will listen to our plea, we will try to convince them that it would be difficult to form the DFAs within the April 30 deadline.
"We are doing this to make all people understand that we've been trying our best to hold the election in time," he added.
Meanwhile, BFF's acting general secretary Manzoor Hossain Malu confirmed that the procedures of forming the DFAs would continue.
He informed that the last date for the DFA polls have been extended to December 31 for the districts and January 10 for the divisions.
"We want to hold this election according to the previous constitution but even if we have to stick to the FIFA directive and hold the election according to the new statutes, I don't think there would be any legal trouble," hoped the BFF secretary.
So far, only eight DFA bodies have been formed and when asked why the remaining DFAs were not formed despite the procedures had begun in June this year, Malu said that the district organisers have asked for more time.
"It seems that the organisers have suddenly become confused although they looked sure about what to do with the DFAs at the start.
It was learned that the district sports association (DSA) secretaries, who had a meeting with the BFF two days earlier, are reluctant about the DFAs because it will heavily reduce their authority over the game.
In the FIFA directive, government officials or government representatives are not allowed to be any part of the football associations.