SAFF U-20 Women's Championship

SAFF U-20 Women's Championship

Founded	2018; 7 years ago (2018)
Region	SAFF
Number of teams	7
Current champions	Bangladesh (4th title)  India (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)	Bangladesh (4 titles)
Website	saffederation.org
2024 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship

The SAFF U-18/U-19/U-20 Women's Championship is a biennial international association football tournament for women's national football teams under the age of 18/19/20, governed by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). All the seven teams of the member associations are eligible to compete in tournament, unless sanctioned by AFC or FIFA.

Results

U20 format

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Champions	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2023 Details	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	3–0	Nepal	India	^RR	Bhutan

U19 format

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Champions	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2021 Details	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	1–0	India	Nepal	^RR	Bhutan
2024 Details	Bangladesh	Bangladesh India	1–1 (11–11 p)	No runner-up[a]	Nepal	^RR	Bhutan

1.  Bangladesh &  India both declared champions

U18 format

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Champions	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2018 Details	Bhutan	Bangladesh	1–0	Nepal	India	1–0	Bhutan
2022 Details	India	India	^RR	Bangladesh	Nepal	–	N/A

Participating nations

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• GS – Group stage
• q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
•     — Hosts
•  ×  – Did not enter
•  •  – Did not qualify
•  ×  – Withdrew before qualification
•     — Withdrew after qualification
•     — Disqualified after qualification

Team	2018	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Bangladesh	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st	5
Bhutan	4th	GS	×	4th	4th	4
India	3rd	2nd	1st	3rd	1st	5
Maldives	GS	×	×	×	×	1
Nepal	2nd	GS	3rd	2nd	3rd	5
Pakistan	GS	×	×	×	×	1
Sri Lanka	×	GS	×	×	×	1

Performance by nation

Nation	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Bangladesh	4 (2018, 2021, 2023, 2024)	1 (2022)	–	–
India	2 (2022, 2024)	1 (2021)	1 (2018, 2023)	–
Nepal	–	1 (2018, 2023)	2 (2022, 2024)	–
Bhutan	–	–	–	3 (2018, 2023, 2024)
Maldives	–	–	–	–
Pakistan	–	–	–	–
Sri Lanka	–	–	–	–

Awards

Year	Most Valuable Player	Top scorer(s)		Best Goalkeeper	Fair play award
		Player(s)	Goals
2018	Akhi Khatun	Sirat Jahan Shopna	8	Not awarded	Not awarded
2021	Saheda Akter Ripa	Saheda Akter Ripa	5		Nepal
2022	Serto Lynda Kom	Serto Lynda Kom	5		Bangladesh
2023	Shamsunnahar Junior	Shamsunnahar Junior Amisha Karki	4	Rupna Chakma	Bhutan
2024	Not awarded	Mosammat Sagorika Pooja Sibani Devi	4	Not awarded	Not awarded

Winning coaches

Year	Team	Coach
2018	Bangladesh	Golam Robbani Choton
2021	Bangladesh	Golam Robbani Choton
2022	India	Thomas Dennerby
2023	Bangladesh	Golam Robbani Choton
2024	Bangladesh  India	Saiful Bari Titu Shukla Dutta

See also

• SAFF U-17 Women's Championship
• SAFF U-20 Championship

References