Country's two football powerhouses Mohammedan Sporting Club and Muktijoddha Sang-sad Krira Chakra lock horns today to determine who will win the season's first competition.

The battle of black and whites versus all reds in the final of the Nitol-Tata Third National Football League kicks off at 4:30pm at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

Bangladesh Television will provide live coverage of the final.

While holders Mohammedan will be desperate to keep the trophy at their Motijheel tent for another year, Muktijoddha will leave no stone unturned to capture their first National League title.

Although the first meeting of the two teams last early this week produced a boring goalless draw, the final promises an altogether different level of intensity and passion.

Confidence is running high in the Mohammedan camp after a morale boosting 1-0 victory over bitter rivals Abahani in the action-packed second semifinal on Tuesday.

"We are very confident that we can win the final because our morale is really high at the moment after the victory against Abahani in the semifinal," Mohammedan captain and left-wing back Masud Rana said before the team's final training session at the Rajarbagh Police Lines ground yesterday.

The experienced national campaigner also said that his team wants to achieve victory in the regulation 90 minutes

"We don't want to roll the match into a tiebreaker," said Masud Rana.

Mohammedan coach Abul Hossain said that his team made some mistakes in the semifinal but sounded confident those mistakes would not be repeated.

Muktijoddha coach Shafiqul Islam Manik, on the other hand, expected full commitment from the star-studded line-up to clinch the maiden national league title.

"We have clinched the League title and Federation Cup earlier but we were unsuccessful in the National League on the two previous occasions," Manik said.

"But this is a very much balanced side and I just want full commitment from my players to win the final," said the former national player.

The Reds failed to even make it to the final during the first two edition, but a 58th goal by ace striker Alfaz Ahmed against Moulvibazar Wanderers enabled Muktijoddha to advance into the final this time.

The last the two teams met in a final was the Federation Cup last year, which Mohammedan won by a controversial penalty.

But Manik wants a repeat act of the 1998 Premier League deciding match when his emerging team blanked Mohammedan 2-0.