Former Bangladesh national football team coach Jamie Day has claimed that world football's governing body, FIFA, has stopped issuing development funds to Bangladesh Football Federation over his payment disputes with the federation.

The English coach had a contract running till August 2022, but the 43-year-old was sacked by the BFF in September 2021. Day was in constant contact with the federation to recover his unpaid wages before eventually lodging a complaint with the FIFA late last year.

FIFA gave the verdict in October 2022 asking the BFF to clear the dues of Day, who has claimed more than $86,000 in unpaid wages. A deadline expiring on December 27 was also given to the BFF to abide by FIFA's verdict.

"In October 2022, the FIFA Players' Status Committee heard the case between the BFF and me and determined that I was owed compensation of $86,000 plus interest due to the BFF's failure to comply with the terms of the employment contract between us.

"The BFF did not appeal FIFA's decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and so FIFA's decision is final and binding.

"FIFA imposed a deadline upon the BFF of 27 December 2022 to comply with its decision and pay the outstanding amounts.

"The BFF has chosen to ignore FIFA and this deadline and to date, no amounts have been paid. As a result, the BFF now faces a restriction on receiving a percentage of development funding until they decide to comply with FIFA's decision," Day claimed in messages sent to media in Bangladesh.

BFF, however, claimed through a press release, that FIFA has not halted its instalment of development fund. It claimed that BFF received the latest tranche in January this year and it was working on clearing the dues of Day.

BFF's senior-vice president and finance department head, Salam Murshedy, responded by saying that they don't have the means to make the payment and were seeking bank loans to help them out of the situation.

"We are seeking help from the banking sector in terms of loans to help clear his wages," Murshedi said.

Previously in 2016, FIFA had instructed the BFF to clear the due wages of sacked Dutch coach Rene Koster, which amounted to 80 thousand euros, including the interest accrued over the unpaid period. Back then, the BFF was also ordered to pay 8000 Swiss francs to FIFA and Koster as proceedings of the case. Ultimately, the BFF took more than a year to transfer payments to the Dutch coach.