2025 SAFF U-17 Championship

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Host countrySri Lanka
Dates15–27 September 2025
Teams7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
2025 SAFF U-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySri Lanka
Dates15–27 September 2025
Teams7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions India (7th title)
Runners-up Bangladesh
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored43 (3.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)Pakistan Muhammad Abdullah
(6 goals)
Best playerBangladesh Nazmul Huda Faysal
Best goalkeeperBangladesh Md Alif Rahman
Fair play award India
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The 2025 SAFF U-17 Championship was the 10th 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 played from 15 to 27 September 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.[1][2][3]

India are the defending champions, who won their seventh title by defeating Bangladesh (4)2–2(1) goals penalty shootout in the final on 27 September 2025.[4]

All matches were played at the Colombo Racecourse Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Colombo
Colombo Racecourse Stadium
Capacity: 10,000

Participating teams

The following seven teams are participated in the tournament.

Team Appearances Previous best performance
 Bangladesh
10th
Champion (2015, 2018)
 Bhutan
8th
Fourth place (2017)
 India
10th
Champion (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
 Maldives
8th
Group stage (2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022)
   Nepal
10th
Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022)
 Pakistan
6th
Champion (2011)
 Sri Lanka (Host)
8th
Semi-finals (2022)

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 20 July 2025. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.[5]

Draw pot

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
 India
 Sri Lanka (Host)		  Bangladesh
 Pakistan		    Nepal
 Bhutan		  Maldives

Draw result

Group A
Pos Team
A1  Sri Lanka
A2  Bangladesh
A3    Nepal
Group B
Pos Team
B1  India
B2  Pakistan
B3  Bhutan
B4  Maldives

Match officials

The following officials were chosen for the competition by SAFF tournament committee.

Referees
  • Bangladesh Md Alamgir Sarker (†)
  • Bhutan Pema Tshewang (†)
  • India Ashwin Kumar (†)
  • Maldives Afsheen Naseer (†)
  • Nepal Shyam Lal Danuwar (†)
  • Sri Lanka Kasun L. Weerkakkody (†)
Assistant Referees
  • Bangladesh SM Junayed Sharif
  • Bhutan Hem Kumar Sunwar
  • India P Muralitharan
  • Nepal Harish Karki
  • Pakistan Dilawar Khan
  • Sri Lanka Lahiru M Jayaneththi
Match Commissioner
  • India Sudhir M Chembazhi
  • Sri Lanka De Silva Jayasooriya
Referee Assessor
  • Maldives Mohamed Ameez

(†): working as both referee and assistant

Players eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2009 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 yellows, 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 Qualification
1  Bangladesh 2 2 0 0 8 0 +8 6 Qualified for Knockout stage
2    Nepal 2 1 0 1 2 4 −2 3
3  Sri Lanka (H) 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0
Source: SAFF
(H) Hosts
Nepal   2–0 Sri Lanka
  • S. Kumar 54', 90+3'
 Report
Attendance: 1,220
Referee: Ashwin Kumar (India)
Bangladesh 4–0   Nepal
 Report
Attendance: 179
Referee: Afsheen Naseer (Maldives)
Bangladesh 4–0 Sri Lanka
 Report
Attendance: 1,742

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  India 3 3 0 0 10 2 +8 9 Qualified for Knockout stage
2  Pakistan 3 2 0 1 11 5 +6 6
3  Bhutan 3 1 0 2 1 5 −4 3
4  Maldives 3 0 0 3 2 12 −10 0
Source: SAFF
India 6–0 Maldives
 Report
Attendance: 141
Referee: Kasun L. Weerkakkody (Sri Lanka)
Bhutan 0–4 Pakistan
Report
Attendance: 143
Referee: Shyam Lal Danuwar (Nepal)
Pakistan 5–2 Maldives
 Report
Attendance: 153
Referee: Md Alamgir Sarker (Bangladesh)
Bhutan 0–1 India
Report R. Ahmed 58'
Attendance: 171
Referee: Kasun L. Weerkakkody (Sri Lanka)
India 3–2 Pakistan
 Report
Attendance: 157
Referee: Kasun L. Weerkakkody (Sri Lanka)
Bhutan 1–0 Maldives
 Report
Attendance: 117
Referee: Ashwin Kumar (India)

Knockout stage

  • In the knockout stages, 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-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 September – Colombo
 
 
 Bangladesh2
 
27 September – Colombo
 
 Pakistan0
 
 Bangladesh2 (1)
 
25 September – Colombo
 
 India (p)2 (4)
 
 India3
 
 
   Nepal0
 

Semi-finals

Bangladesh 2–0 Pakistan
 Report
Attendance: 157
India 3–0   Nepal
 Report
Attendance: 143
Referee: Afsheen Naseer (Maldives)

Final

Winner

 10th SAFF U-17 Championship 2025 Champions 

India
Seventh title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 43 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.58 goals per match.

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: Sofascore

Hat trick

PlayerAgainstResultDateRef
Pakistan Muhammad Abdullah Bhutan4–0 16 September 2025 [6]
Pakistan Mansoor Ahmad Maldives5–2 19 September 2025 [7]
Bangladesh Md Rifat Kazi Sri Lanka4–0 21 September 2025 [8]

Awards

Fair Play Award Best Goalkeeper Highest Goalscorer Most Valuable Player
 India Bangladesh Md Alif Rahman Pakistan Muhammad Abdullah Bangladesh Nazmul Huda Faysal

Broadcasting

Territory Broadcaster(s) Reference
No restricted territory Sportzworkz
(YouTube channel)		 2025 SAFF U17 matches playlist on YouTube

See also

References

External links

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