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2024 SAFF U-20 Championship

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2024 SAFF U-20 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryNepal
Dates18–28 August 2024
Teams6 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Goals scored11 (1.83 per match)
Attendance3,719 (620 per match)
Top scorer(s)2 players
(2 goals each)
← 2023
2025 →
All statistics correct as of 23 August 2024.

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

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The all matches are being held at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal.

Lalitpur
ANFA Complex
Capacity: 6,000
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2024 SAFF U-20 Championship

Participating teams

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The following six participants are participating in the tournament.

Team Appearances 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)
 Sri Lanka 3rd Group stage (2019, 2022)
  •  Pakistan withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.

Draw

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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

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Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 India

   Nepal (hosts)

 Maldives

 Bangladesh

 Bhutan

 Pakistan

 Sri Lanka
Group A
Pos Team
A1    Nepal
A2  Bangladesh
A3  Pakistan
A4  Sri Lanka
Group B
Pos Team
B1  India
B2  Maldives
B3  Bhutan

Schedule

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Phase Date
Group stage 18–23 August 2024
Semi-finals 25–26 August 2024
Final 28 August 2024

Match officials

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Referees
  • Bangladesh Bituraj Barua
  • Bhutan Ugyen Penjor
  • India Senthil Nathan
  • Maldives Afsheen Naseer
  • Nepal Shyamlal Danuwar
  • Sri Lanka Mohamed Jafran Athambawa
Assistant referees
  • Bangladesh Md Nuruzzaman
  • Bhutan Hem Kumar Sunwar
  • India Dipesh Manohar Sawant
  • Maldives Raeef Rauf
  • Nepal Sahadev Shrestha
  • Sri Lanka Lahiru M. Jayaneththi

Players eligibility

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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

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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.

  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. 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;
  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 met 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.

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1    Nepal (H) 2 2 0 0 3 1 +2 6 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  Bangladesh 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
3  Sri Lanka 2 0 0 2 0 3 −3 0
4  Pakistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Source: GSA
(H) Hosts
Sri Lanka 0–1   Nepal
Report Nirajan Dhami 23'
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Ugyen Penjor (Bhutan)
Bangladesh 2–0 Sri Lanka
 Report
Referee: Senthil Nathan (India)
Nepal   2–1 Bangladesh
  • Samir Tamang 17'
  • Nirajan Dhami 19'
 Report
Attendance: 483
Referee: Afsheen Naseer (Maldives)

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  India 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 6 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  Bhutan 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
3  Maldives 2 0 0 2 1 3 −2 0
Source: GSA
Bhutan 0–1 India
Report
  • Monirul Molla 36'
Attendance: 223
Referee: Shyamlal Danuwar (Nepal)
Maldives 1–2 Bhutan
  • Ish Aafu Mohamed Firaq 54'
 Report
  • Jetsuen Dorji 21'
  • Ngawang Chopel 90'
Attendance: 73
Referee: Bituraj Barua (Bangladesh)
India 1–0 Maldives
  • Manglenthang Kipgen 90+5'
 Report
Attendance: 440
Referee: Mohamed Jafran Athambawa (Sri Lanka)

Knockout stage

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  • 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

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 August–Dasharath Stadium
 
 
   Nepal
 
28 August–Dasharath Stadium
 
 Bhutan
 
Winner SF1
 
26 August–Dasharath Stadium
 
Winner SF2
 
 India
 
 
 Bangladesh
 

Semi-finals

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Nepal   v Bhutan
India v Bangladesh

Final

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TBDvTBD

Statistics

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Goalscorers

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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

1 goal

  • Bangladesh Piash Ahmed Nova
  • Bhutan Jetsuen Dorji
  • Bhutan Ngawang Chope
  • India Monirul Molla
  • India Manglenthang Kipgen
  • Maldives Ish Aafu Mohamed Firaq
  • Nepal Samir Tamang

Source: GSA

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Nepal to host SAFF U20 Championship". ANFA. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Kazi Md. Salahuddin Re-Elected As President". SAFF. 2 July 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  3. ^ "সাফ নিয়ে বিশাল পরিকল্পনা কাজী সালাউদ্দিনের". www.footballbangladesh.com (in Bengali). 16 September 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  4. ^ "India wins SAFF U-19 Championship title 2023". www.saffederation.com. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  5. ^ "সাফ অনূর্ধ্ব-২০ চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপের ড্র অনুষ্ঠিত হলো ঢাকার ইন্টার কন্টিনেন্টাল হোটেলে". www.dhakapost.com (in Bengali). 8 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
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