2024 SAFF U-20 Championship
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Nepal |
Dates | 18–28 August 2024 |
Teams | 6 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | ![]() |
Runners-up | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 9 |
Goals scored | 20 (2.22 per match) |
Attendance | 10,387 (1,154 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (4 goals) |
Best player(s) | ![]() |
Best goalkeeper | ![]() |
Fair play award | ![]() |
← 2023 2025 → |
The 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship was 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 were played in Lalitpur, Nepal from 18–28 August 2024.[2][3]
Bangladesh are the defending champions, who won their maiden title by defeating Nepal 4–1 goals in the final on 28 August 2024.[4]
Venue
The all matches were played at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal.
Lalitpur |
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ANFA Complex |
Capacity: 6,000 |
![]() ![]() Lalitpur class=notpageimage| 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship |
Participants teams
The following six participants were participated in the tournament.
Team | Appearances | Best performance |
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![]() | 6th | Runners-up (2017, 2019, 2022) |
![]() | 5th | Fourth place (2017, 2019) |
![]() | 6th | Champion (2019, 2022, 2023) |
![]() | 6th | Third place (2019) |
![]() | 6th | Champion (2015, 2017) |
![]() | 3rd | Group stage (2019, 2022) |
Pakistan withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.
Draw
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
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Pos | Team |
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A1 | ![]() |
A2 | ![]() |
A3 | ![]() |
A4 | ![]() |
Pos | Team |
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B1 | ![]() |
B2 | ![]() |
B3 | ![]() |
Schedule
Phase | Date |
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Group stage | 18–23 August 2024 |
Semi-finals | 25–26 August 2024 |
Final | 28 August 2024 |
Match officials
- Referees
Bituraj Barua
Ugyen Penjor
Senthil Nathan
Afsheen Naseer
Shyamlal Danuwar
Mohamed Jafran Athambawa
- Assistant referees
Md Nuruzzaman
Hem Kumar Sunwar
Dipesh Manohar Sawant
Raeef Rauf
Sahadev Shrestha
Lahiru M. Jayaneththi
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 and maximum 23 players.[citation needed]
Group stage
- 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
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 6 | Qualified for Knockout stage |
2 | ![]() | 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 |
(H) Hosts
Bangladesh ![]() | 2–0 | ![]() |
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Report |
Nepal ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() |
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| Report |
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Group B
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 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 0 |
Knockout stage
- 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
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
25 August–ANFA Complex | ||||||
![]() | 1 (4) | |||||
28 August–ANFA Complex | ||||||
![]() | 1 (1) | |||||
![]() | 1 | |||||
26 August–ANFA Complex | ||||||
![]() | 4 | |||||
![]() | 1 (3) | |||||
![]() | 1 (4) | |||||
Semi-finals
Nepal ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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Nirajan Dhami ![]() | Report | Jetsuen Dorji ![]() |
Penalties | ||
| 4–1 |
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India ![]() | 1–1 | ![]() |
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| Report |
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Penalties | ||
| 3–4 |
Final
![]() | 1–4 | ![]() |
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| Report |
Winner
6th SAFF U-20 Championship 2024 Champions |
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![]() Bangladesh First title |
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Fair Play Award | Best goalkeeper | Most valuable player | |||
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Statistics
Goalscorers
There have been 20 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 2.22 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
Nirajan Dhami
2 goals
Jetsuen Dorji
Samir Tamang
Piash Ahmed Nova
1 goal
Asadul Molla
Md Rabby Hossen Rahul
Ngawang Chope
Rickey Meetei
Monirul Molla
Manglenthang Kipgen
Ish Aafu Mohamed Firaq
Source: GSA
See also
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Magical Mirajul helps Bangladesh to maiden SAFF U-20 title". www.thedailystar.net. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "সাফ অনূর্ধ্ব-২০ চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপের ড্র অনুষ্ঠিত হলো ঢাকার ইন্টার কন্টিনেন্টাল হোটেলে". www.dhakapost.com (in Bengali). 8 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "SAFF U-20 Champs: Bangladesh creates history by winning first-ever title crushing Nepal 4-1 in final". www.unb.com.bd. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2024.