2024_SAFF_U-19_Championship
2024 SAFF U-19 Championship
International football competition
The 2024 SAFF U-19 Championship will be the 6th edition of the SAFF U-19 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-19 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). It will take place from 16–28 August 2024 in Kathmandu, Nepal.[1][2]
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Nepal |
| Dates | 16–28 August 2024 |
| Teams | 7 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
← 2023 2025 → | |
India are the defending champions, who won their third title by defeating Pakistan 3–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2023.[3]
The tournament will be held at the Dasharath Rangasala in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The following seven participants will participate in the tournament.
| Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-19 Championship |
Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
 Bangladesh | 6th | Runners-up (2017, 2019, 2022) |
 Bhutan | 5th | Fourth place (2017, 2019) |
 India | 6th | Champion (2019, 2022, 2023) |
 Maldives | 6th | Third place (2019) |
 Nepal | 6th | Champion (2015, 2017) |
 Pakistan | 2nd | Runner-up (2023) |
 Sri Lanka | 3rd | Group stage (2019), (2022) |
The draw ceremony of the tournament was held at Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist four teams & followed by Group B three teams.[4]
Draw result
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.[citation needed]
- Times listed are UTC+05:45 Nepal Standard Time (NST).
| Key to colours in group tables | |
|---|---|
| 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 yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pakistan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
| 2 | Nepal (H) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Bangladesh |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Sri Lanka |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Group B
| 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 | Bhutan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TBC | v | TBC |
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- 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 | |||||
| August 2024–Kathmandu | ||||||
| Champion Group A | ||||||
| 28 August 2024–Kathmandu | ||||||
| Runner Up Group B | ||||||
| Winner SF1 | ||||||
| August 2024–Kathmandu | ||||||
| Winner SF2 | ||||||
| Champion Group B | ||||||
| Runner Up Group A | ||||||
Semi-finals
| TBC | v | TBC |
|---|---|---|
| TBC | v | TBC |
|---|---|---|
Final
| TBC | v | TBC |
|---|---|---|
Goalscorers
There have been 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 16 August 2024).
- "Kazi Md. Salahuddin Re-Elected As President". SAFF. 2 July 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- "সাফ নিয়ে বিশাল পরিকল্পনা কাজী সালাউদ্দিনের". www.footballbangladesh.com (in Bengali). 16 September 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- "India wins SAFF U-19 Championship title 2023". www.saffederation.com. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- "সাফ অনূর্ধ্ব-২০ চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপের ড্র অনুষ্ঠিত হলো ঢাকার ইন্টার কন্টিনেন্টাল হোটেলে". www.dhakapost.com (in Bengali). 8 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.