2025 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Bangladesh |
| Dates | 11–21 July 2025 |
| Teams | 4 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in Dhaka host cities) |
← 2024 2026 → | |
The 2025 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship will be sixth edition of the SAFF U-20 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under–20 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The tournament will held from 11 to 21 July 2025 in Bangladesh.[1][2]
Bangladesh and India are the joint champion, both teams have finished 1–1 goals in the regulations time and 11–11 goals by penalties shoot-out in the final of the tournament on 8 February 2024.[3]
Host selection
At the SAFF Executive Committee virtual meeting, held on 20 November 2024 in the Dhaka, Bangladesh SAFF announced the name of Bangladesh host country of the tournament.[4]
Participating nations
The following four nations will participate in the tournament.
| Team | App | Last | Best placement in the tournament |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 5th | 2024 | Champions (2018, 2021, 2023, 2024) |
| Bhutan | 4th | 2024 | Fourth-place (2018, 2023, 2024) |
| Nepal | 5th | 2024 | Runners-up (2018, 2023) |
| Sri Lanka | 2nd | 2021 | Group stages (2021) |
Venue
All matches will be played at the Bashundhara Kings Arena in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
| Dhaka | |
|---|---|
| Bashundhara Kings Arena | |
| Capacity: 6,000 | |
Player eligibility
Players born on or after 1 January 2006 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.
Draw & fixtures
The draw and fixtures were announced by SAFF tournament committee on 12 June 2025 at 17:00 BST. The four nations will play each others twice in the double round robin league format.[5]
Match officials
- Referees
- TBD
- Assistant Referees & Fourth Official
- TBD
Round robin
| Key to colours in group tables | |
|---|---|
| Champion | |
- 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 tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- 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;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
- Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
- Drawing of lots.
Standing
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Champion |
| 2 | Bhutan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Nepal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored;
(H) Hosts
- Matches
| Bangladesh | Match 1 | Sri Lanka |
|---|---|---|
| Nepal | Match 4 | Bangladesh |
|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | Match 5 | Bhutan |
|---|---|---|
| Bhutan | Match 8 | Bangladesh |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | Match 10 | Bangladesh |
|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | Match 12 | Nepal |
|---|---|---|
Statistics
Goalscorers
There have been 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 11 July 2025). Source: GSA
See also
References
- ^ "মাঠ সংক্রান্ত জটিলতার পরেও আয়োজক বাংলাদেশ". www.kalbela.com (in Bengali). 20 November 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "সাফ অনূর্ধ্ব-২০ নারী চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপের নতুন তারিখ ঘোষণা". www.samakal.com (in Bengali). 17 December 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- ^ "Bangladesh and India declared joint champions". www.thedailystar.net. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "ফেব্রুয়ারিতে মেয়েদের যুব সাফ হবে ঢাকায়". www.barta24.com (in Bengali). 20 November 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ "ঢাকায় মেয়েদের সাফে অংশ নেবে না ভারত". www.prothomalo.com (in Bengali). 12 June 2025.