2024 SAFF U-17 Championship

The 2024 SAFF U-17 Championship will be 9th edition of the SAFF U-17 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-17 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). It is schedule to be played from 18–28 September 2024 in Thimphu, Bhutan.^[1][2]

India are the defending champions, who won their fifth title in by defeating Bangladesh 2–0 goals in the final on 10 September 2023.^[3]

Venue

All matches of the tournament will held at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.^{[citation needed]}

Thimphu
Changlimithang Stadium
Capacity: 15,000
	Thimphu

Participants teams

The following seven participants will participate in the tournament.

Team	Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Championship	Previous best performance
Bangladesh	9th	Champion (2015, 2018)
Bhutan	7th	Fourth place (2017)
India	9th	Champion (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023)
Maldives	7th	Group stage (2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
Nepal	9th	Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022)
Pakistan	5th	Champion (2011)
Sri Lanka	7th	Semi-finals (2022)

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.^[4]

Draw

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
India  Bhutan (hosts)	Maldives    Nepal	Bangladesh  Pakistan	Sri Lanka

Draw result

Group A Pos Team A1  India A2  Maldives A3  Bangladesh

Group B Pos Team B1  Bhutan B2    Nepal B3  Pakistan B4  Sri Lanka

Players eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to register a squad of minimum 16 players and maximum 23 players, minimum two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Group stage

• Times listed are UTC+06:00 Bhutan Time.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellots, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Knockout stage
2	Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bangladesh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bhutan (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Knockout stage
2	Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Pakistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Sri Lanka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Knockout stage

• In the knockout stages, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 18 September 2018).

See also

• 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship
• 2024 SAFF Women's Championship

References

This page was last edited on 26 June 2024, at 17:15