2022 SAFF U-17 Championship

2022 SAFF U-17 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Sri Lanka[1]
City	Colombo
Dates	5–14 September
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1
Final positions
Champions	India (4th title)
Runners-up	Nepal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	29 (4.14 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Thanglalsoun Gangte Mirajul Islam 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 was 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	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

• Times listed are UTC+05:30 Sri Lanka Standard Time.

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.

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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

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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

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Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	12 September–Colombo
	Bangladesh	1
					14 September–Colombo
	India	2
					India	4
	12 September–Colombo
					Nepal	0
	Nepal	6
	Sri Lanka	0

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Semi-finals

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Final

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

• 2022 SAFF U-20 Championship
• 2022 SAFF Women's Championship
• 2022 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship

References