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2025 SAFF U-17 Championship

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2025 SAFF U-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySri Lanka
Dates15–27 September 2025
Teams7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
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The 2025 SAFF U-17 Championship will be the 10th 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). Its scheduled to held from 15–27 September 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[1][2][3]

India are the defending champions, who won their sixth title by defeating Bangladesh 2–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2024.[4]

Venue

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All matches will be held at the Racecourse Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Colombo
Racecourse Ground
Capacity: 10,000

Participating teams

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The following seven teams are participating in the tournament.

Team Appearances Previous best performance
 Bangladesh
10th
 Champion (2015, 2018)
 Bhutan
8th
 Fourth place (2017)
 India
10th
 Champion (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
 Maldives
8th
 Group stage (2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
   Nepal
10th
 Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022)
 Pakistan
6th
 Champion (2011)
 Sri Lanka
8th
 Semi-finals (2022)

Draw

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The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 20 July 2025. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.[5]

Draw pot

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Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 India
 Sri Lanka (Host) 		 Bangladesh
 Pakistan 		   Nepal
 Bhutan 		 Maldives

Draw result

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Group A
Pos Team
A1  Sri Lanka
A2  Bangladesh
A3    Nepal
Group B
Pos Team
B1  India
B2  Pakistan
B3  Bhutan
B4  Maldives

Players eligibility

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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.

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 yellows, 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  Bangladesh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualified for Knockout stage
2    Nepal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Sri Lanka (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 15 September 2025. Source: [citation needed]
(H) Hosts
Nepal   v Sri Lanka
Bangladesh v   Nepal
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Bhutan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  India 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Maldives 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Pakistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 16 September 2025. Source: [citation needed]
India v Maldives
Bhutan v Pakistan
15:00
Pakistan v Maldives
Bhutan v India
India v Pakistan
Bhutan v Maldives

Knockout stage

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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

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 September – Colombo
 
 
Champion Group A
 
27 September – Colombo
 
Runners-up Group B
 
Winner SF1
 
25 September – Colombo
 
Winner SF2
 
Champion Group B
 
 
Runners-up Group A
 

Semi-finals

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Champion Group AvRunners-up Group B
Champion Group BvRunners-up Group A

Final

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Winner SF1vWinner SF2

Statistics

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Goalscorers

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There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 15 September 2025).


See also

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References

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  1. ^ "সাফ নিয়ে বিশাল পরিকল্পনা কাজী সালাউদ্দিনের". www.footballbangladesh.com (in Bengali). 16 September 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  2. ^ "SAFF Youth Competition Calendar revised". www.saffederation.org. 24 December 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Bangladesh drawn with hosts Sri Lanka". www.thedailystar.net. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  4. ^ "India vanquish Bangladesh to wear the SAFF U17 Championship crown". www.aninews.in. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  5. ^ "বাংলাদেশের সঙ্গে শ্রীলঙ্কা-নেপাল, একই গ্রুপে ভারত-পাকিস্তান". www.mzamin.com (in Bengali). 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
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