2025 WAFF U-17 Girls Championship

The 2025 WAFF U-17 Girls Championship (Arabic: بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للناشئات) was the fifth edition of the WAFF U-17 Girls Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-17 national teams of West Asia. It was hosted in Saudi Arabia from 8 to 16 February 2025.^[1][2]

Defending champions Syria, who defeated the previous edition's host Jordan 1–0 in the final,^[3] finished runners-up. Lebanon won the tournament, defeating Syria 4–0 in the final and winning their third title.

Initially, eight out of 12 member associations entered teams for the tournament. However, Iraq and Kuwait later withdrew, bringing the total down to six teams.^[4][5][6] Of the six participants, Saudi Arabia is making its debut in the tournament.^[7]

Did not enter

The official draw was held on 6 January 2025 at the WAFF Headquarters in Amman at 12:00 (UTC+3). The host team, Saudi Arabia, was automatically seeded and placed in position A1, while the title holders, Syria, were also automatically seeded and assigned to position B1.^[8][9]

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Players born between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers

The tourmanent took place in Khobar, a coastal city in the Eastern Province, with the following stadium used for all matches:^[10]

All times are local, SAST (UTC+3).

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were 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. Should more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 meet in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).

There were 30 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: WAFF