2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship

2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Nepal
City	Lalitpur
Dates	1–10 March 2024
Teams	4 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1
Final positions
Champions	Bangladesh (2nd title)
Runners-up	India
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	34 (4.86 per match)
Attendance	1,140 (163 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sauravi Akanda Prity; Anushka Kumari; (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Sauravi Akanda Prity
Best goalkeeper	Yearzan Begum
Fair play award	Bhutan
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The 2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship was 6th edition of SAFF U-16 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-17 national teams, organized by SAFF. The tournament were played in Nepal from 1–10 March 2024. Four teams from the region participated in the tournament.^[1]^[2]

Bangladesh is the defending champion having won the title by defeated India by (3)1–1(2) goals penalties shootout in the final on 10 March 2024.^[3]

Host selection edit

At the SAFF Executive Committee meeting, held on 10 January 2024 in the Dhaka, Bangladesh SAFF announced the name of Nepal host country of the tournament.^[1]

Participating nations edit

The following four nations were participated in the tournament.

Team	Appearances in the SAFF U-16 Women's Championship	Previous best performance
Bangladesh	6th	Champions (2017) (2024)
Bhutan	6th	(2018)
India	5th	Champions (2018, 2019)
Nepal (Host)	6th	Champions (2022)

Venue edit

All matches were played at ANFA Complex Lalitpur, Nepal.

Lalitpur	Lalitpur
ANFA Complex
Capacity: 4,000

Players eligibility edit

Players born on or after 1 January 2009 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]}

Match officials edit

Referees

Jaya Chakma
Sen Hangma Subba
Maya Lama
Meera Tamang

Assistant Referees

Shohana Khatun
Sonam Palden
Elangbam Debala Devi
Merina Dhimal

Round robin edit

Single round-robin, each team played each other. The top teams contest in the final.

Key to colours in league table define Champion
	Champion

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).

League table edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
1	Bangladesh	3	3	0	11	1	+10	9	Qualified for Final
2	India	3	2	1	18	3	+15	6	Qualified for Final
3	Nepal	3	1	2	3	12	−9	3
4	Bhutan	3	0	3	0	16	−16	0

Source: GSA

Matches edit

1 March 2024

15:00

Bhutan	0–7	India
	Report	Shveta Rani 6', 27' Pearl Fernandes 13', 26' Anushka Kumari 17', 40' Anwita Raghuraman 61'

ANFA Complex, Lalitpur

Attendance: 231

Referee: Jaya Chakma (Bangladesh)

2 March 2024