2022 SAFF U-17 Championship
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Sri Lanka[1] |
City | Colombo |
Dates | 5–14 September |
Teams | 6 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 7 |
Goals scored | 29 (4.14 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() ![]() (4 goals each) |
← 2019 2023 → |
The 2022 SAFF U-17 Championship was the 7th 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). The tournament took place in Sri Lanka from September 5 to 14, 2022. Six teams from the region took part.[2]
India is the defending champion. They have won previous season title by beating Nepal 7−0 on 31 August 2019.[3]
Participating teams
FIFA suspended Pakistan Football Federation on 7 April 2021,[4] but eventually withdrew the ban, yet they could not participate in the competition as it was too late for them to be ready.[5]
Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Championship | Previous best performance |
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![]() | 7th | Champions (2013, 2017, 2019) |
![]() | 7th | Champions (2015, 2018) |
![]() | 7th | Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019) |
![]() | 5th | Fourth Place |
![]() | 6th | Group Stage |
![]() | 5th | Group Stage |
Venue
All matches are being held at the Racecourse Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Colombo | |
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Racecourse Ground | |
Capacity: 10,000 | |
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Officials
Referees
| Assistant Referees
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Draw
Once the hosting nation is announced, it will be put in the 1st position of pot 1 while Maldives will be moved to pot 3.
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | |
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Source: SAFF |
Players' eligibility
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.
Group stage
- Times listed are UTC+05:30 Sri Lanka Standard Time.
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
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 6 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 | |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
(H) Hosts
Bangladesh ![]() | 5–1 | ![]() |
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| Report | Yasser ![]() |
Maldives ![]() | 0–5 | ![]() |
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Report |
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Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 |
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
12 September–Colombo | ||||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
14 September–Colombo | ||||||
![]() | 2 | |||||
![]() | 4 | |||||
12 September–Colombo | ||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||
![]() | 6 | |||||
![]() | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
Bangladesh ![]() | 1–2 | ![]() |
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Mirajul ![]() | Report | Gangte ![]() |
Final
India ![]() | 4–0 | ![]() |
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| Report |
Winner
7th SAFF U-17 Championship 2022 |
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![]() India Fourth title |
Goalscorers
There have been 35 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 3.89 goals per match (as of 14 September 2022).
4 goals
Unesh Budhathoki
Thanglalsoun Gangte
Mirajul Islam
3 goals
Mohammed Mursed Ali
2 goals
Vanlalpeka Guite
Subash Bam
1 goal
Mohammed Rubel Shaikh
Sirajul Islam Rana
Mohammed Nazim Uddin
Nazmul Huda Faysal
Jetsune Dorji
Danny Meitei
Bobby
Korou
Harish Raj Bhatta
Niraj Karki
Sijal Rai
Prashant Laksham
Semanta Thapa
Saroj Darlami
M. M. Yasser Sharfaraz
Mohamed Aiham Ibrahim
Source: SAFF
See also
References
- ^ "Sri Lanka to host SAFF U17 Championship". ThePapare.com. 3 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ^ "All you need to know about the 2021 SAFF calendar". Goal.com. 17 April 2021. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ "With 28 goals in 5 games, India lift SAFF U-15 Title". saffederation.org. AIFF. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ "FIFA suspends Chad and Pakistan football associations". Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ "Draw ceremony for SAFF Women's Championship and SAFF U17 Championship held". Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.