2022 SAFF U-17 Championship

2022 SAFF U-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySri Lanka[1]
CityColombo
Dates5–14 September
Teams6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1
Final positions
Champions India (4th title)
Runners-up   Nepal
Tournament statistics
Matches played7
Goals scored29 (4.14 per match)
Top scorer(s)India Thanglalsoun Gangte
Bangladesh Mirajul Islam
Nepal Unesh Budhathoki
(4 goals each)
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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
 India 7th Champions (2013, 2017, 2019)
 Bangladesh 7th Champions (2015, 2018)
   Nepal 7th Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019)
 Bhutan 5th Fourth Place
 Sri Lanka 6th Group Stage
 Maldives 5th Group Stage

Venue

All matches are being held at the Racecourse Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Colombo
Racecourse Ground
Capacity: 10,000

Officials

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
 Sri Lanka (Hosts)
 India 		   Nepal
 Bangladesh 		 Bhutan
 Maldives
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

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Status
1  Bangladesh 2 2 0 0 10 1 +9 6 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  Sri Lanka (H) 2 1 0 1 2 5 −3 3
3  Maldives 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0
Source: GSA
(H) Hosts
Bangladesh 5–1 Sri Lanka
 Report Yasser 77'
Attendance: 556
Referee: Kabin Byanjankar (Nepal)
Maldives 0–5 Bangladesh
Report
Attendance: 206
Referee: Pema Tshewang (Bhutan)
Sri Lanka 1−0 Maldives
Report

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Status
1    Nepal 2 2 0 0 5 2 +3 6 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  India 2 1 0 1 4 3 +1 3
3  Bhutan 2 0 0 2 1 5 −4 0
Source: GSA
Bhutan 0–3 India
Report
Attendance: 302
Referee: Athambawa Mohammed Jafran (Sri Lanka)
Nepal   2−1 Bhutan
 Report J. Dorji 68'
Attendance: 346
Referee: Abdulla Shathir (Maldives)
India 1−3   Nepal
 Report

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
12 September–Colombo
 
 
 Bangladesh1
 
14 September–Colombo
 
 India2
 
 India4
 
12 September–Colombo
 
   Nepal0
 
   Nepal6
 
 
 Sri Lanka0
 

Semi-finals

Bangladesh 1–2 India
Mirajul 61' (pen.) Report Gangte 50', 58'
Referee: Kabin Byanjankar (Nepal)
Nepal   6–0 Sri Lanka
 Report

Final

India 4–0   Nepal
 Report
Referee: Alamgir Sarker (Bangladesh)

Winner

 7th SAFF U-17 Championship 2022 

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

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: SAFF

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sri Lanka to host SAFF U17 Championship". ThePapare.com. 3 August 2022. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "FIFA suspends Chad and Pakistan football associations". Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Draw ceremony for SAFF Women's Championship and SAFF U17 Championship held". Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.