2024 SAFF U-20 Championship
![]() | This article documents a current SAFF U-20 Championship. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Initial news reports, scores, or statistics may be unreliable. The last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (August 2024) |
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Nepal |
Dates | 18–28 August 2024 |
Teams | 6 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 6 |
Goals scored | 11 (1.83 per match) |
Attendance | 3,719 (620 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | 2 players (2 goals each) |
The 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship is the 6th edition of the SAFF U-20 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-20 national teams from South Asia region, organized by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).[1] The tournament playing in Lalitpur and Kathmandu, Nepal from 18–28 August 2024.[2][3]
India are the defending champions, who won their third title by defeating Pakistan 3–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2023.[4]
Venue
[edit]The all matches are being held at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal.
Lalitpur |
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ANFA Complex |
Capacity: 6,000 |
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Participating teams
[edit]The following six participants are participating in the tournament.
Team | Appearances | Best performance |
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6th | Runners-up (2017, 2019, 2022) |
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5th | Fourth place (2017, 2019) |
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6th | Champion (2019, 2022, 2023) |
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6th | Third place (2019) |
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6th | Champion (2015, 2017) |
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3rd | Group stage (2019, 2022) |
Pakistan withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.
Draw
[edit]The draw ceremony of the tournament was held at Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants were divided into two groups, A consisting of four and B of three teams.[5]
Seedings
[edit]Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Pos | Team |
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Pos | Team |
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Schedule
[edit]Phase | Date |
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Group stage | 18–23 August 2024 |
Semi-finals | 25–26 August 2024 |
Final | 28 August 2024 |
Match officials
[edit]- Referees
- Assistant referees
Md Nuruzzaman
Hem Kumar Sunwar
Dipesh Manohar Sawant
Raeef Rauf
Sahadev Shrestha
Lahiru M. Jayaneththi
Players eligibility
[edit]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 and maximum 23 players.[citation needed]
Group stage
[edit]- Times listed are UTC+05:45 Nepal Standard Time (NST).
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 yellow cards = 3 points, 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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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 | |
3 | ![]() |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 | |
4 | ![]() |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |
Bangladesh ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Nepal ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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Group B
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 6 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
Knockout stage
[edit]- In the knockout stage, 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 | |||||
25 August–Dasharath Stadium | ||||||
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28 August–Dasharath Stadium | ||||||
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Winner SF1 | ||||||
26 August–Dasharath Stadium | ||||||
Winner SF2 | ||||||
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Semi-finals
[edit]Final
[edit]TBD | v | TBD |
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Statistics
[edit]Goalscorers
[edit]There have been 11 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 1.83 goals per match (as of 23 August 2024).
2 goals
Mirajul Islam
Nirajan Dhami
1 goal
Piash Ahmed Nova
Jetsuen Dorji
Ngawang Chope
Monirul Molla
Manglenthang Kipgen
Ish Aafu Mohamed Firaq
Samir Tamang
Source: GSA
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Nepal to host SAFF U20 Championship". ANFA. Retrieved 18 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.