2024 SAFF U-17 Championship
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Bhutan |
Dates | 20–30 September 2024 |
Teams | 7 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
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 scheduled to be played from 20–30 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
[edit]All matches of the tournament will held at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Thimphu | |
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Changlimithang Stadium | |
Capacity: 15,000 | |
Participating teams
[edit]The following seven participants will participate in the tournament.
Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Championship |
Previous best performance |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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India Bhutan (hosts) |
Maldives Nepal |
Bangladesh Pakistan |
Sri Lanka |
Draw result
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Players eligibility
[edit]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
[edit]- Times listed are UTC+06:00 Bhutan Time.
Key to colours in group tables | |
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Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals |
- 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.
- 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 yellots, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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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
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | |||||
September 2024–Thimphu | ||||||
Champion Group A | ||||||
28 September 2024–Thimphu | ||||||
Runner Up Group B | ||||||
Winner SF1 | ||||||
September 2024–Thimphu | ||||||
Winner SF2 | ||||||
Champion Group B | ||||||
Runner Up Group A | ||||||
Semi-finals
[edit]Champion Group A | v | Runner Up Group B |
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Champion Group B | v | Runner Up Group A |
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Final
[edit]Winner SF1 | v | Winner SF2 |
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Statistics
[edit]Goalscorers
[edit]There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 20 September 2024).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Kazi Md. Salahuddin Re-Elected As President". SAFF. 2 July 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "সাফ নিয়ে বিশাল পরিকল্পনা কাজী সালাউদ্দিনের". www.footballbangladesh.com (in Bengali). 16 September 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "India emerge SAFF U16 champions, make short work of Bangladesh in final". www.the-aiff.com. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "সাফ অনূর্ধ্ব-১৭ চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপের ড্র অনুষ্ঠিত হলো ঢাকার ইন্টার কন্টিনেন্টাল হোটেলে". www.dhakapost.com (in Bengali). 8 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.