2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship
Women's national youth association football tournament
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The 2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship (Arabic: بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للشابات) was the 5th edition of the WAFF Youth Girls Championship, the international women's football youth championship of Western Asia organized by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-20 national teams. It was held in Aqaba, Jordan, from 6 to 12 April 2025.[2] and it was the first edition of the tournament to be restricted to the under-20 level, following four previous editions held at the under-18 level.[3]
| بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للشابات الأردن ۲۰۲٥ | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Jordan |
| City | Aqaba |
| Dates | 6–12 April |
| Teams | 4 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Palestine (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Jordan |
| Third place |  Syria |
| Fourth place |  Kuwait |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 8 |
| Goals scored | 33 (4.13 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Aya Mohammed[1] (7 goals) |
| Best player | Kinda Al-Titi |
| Best goalkeeper | Mirave Marouf |
← 2024 TBD → | |
Host Jordan entered the tournament as the defending champions, having secured their second title just four months earlier.[4] However, they were unable to retain the title, falling to Palestine in the final.[5] The victory marked Palestine's first-ever title in WAFF history—across both men's and women's competitions—and their first in any women's tournament.[6][7]
Participation
Participating teams
Four out of the 12 WAFF member associations registered teams for the competition, three of which had participated in the 2024 edition. Kuwait returned to the tournament for the first time since their debut in 2019.[8]
- Did not enter
Bahrain and 
Saudi Arabia – the two Gulf nations did not enter the tournament, having scheduled a two-match friendly series against each other during the same period.[9] Bahrain last participated in 2019, while Saudi Arabia's last appearance was in the previous edition (2024).
Lebanon opted to participate in the 2025 UEFA Women's U-18 Friendship Cup in Riva, Turkey, during the same period, seeking stronger preparatory matches.[10] Lebanon last participated in 2024.
Other WAFF members 
Iraq and 
United Arab Emirates chose not to participate. Meanwhile, Oman, Qatar, and Yemen do not field women's teams at this category or at all.
Draw
The tournament draw to determine the positions of the participating teams was held on 13 March 2025 at 12:00 AST (UTC+3) and streamed live on the federation's YouTube channel.[11]
The draw resulted in the following positions:[12]
Squads
Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Group stage
All times are local, AST (UTC+3).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jordan |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 9 | Final |
| 2 | Palestine |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 4 | |
| 3 | Syria |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 4 | Third place play-off |
| 4 | Kuwait |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) head-to-head matches; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of goals scored.
| Jordan | 2–0 | Syria |
|---|---|---|
Tamimi  55', 82' |
Report Report (JFA) |
| Palestine | 0–3 | Jordan |
|---|---|---|
| Report Report (JFA) |
|
| Jordan | 1–0 | Kuwait |
|---|---|---|
| Tamimi 55' |
Report Report (JFA) |
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.
| Final | ||
| 12 April - Aqaba | ||
| Jordan | 1 (2) | |
| Palestine (p) | 1 (4) | |
| Third place play-off | ||
| 12 April - Aqaba | ||
| Syria | 7 | |
| Kuwait | 1 | |
Third place play-off
Final
Goalscorers
There were 33 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 4.12 goals per match.
7 goals
Aya Mohammad
4 goals
Ida Tamimi
3 goals
Naomi Phillips- Miral Qassis
- Mai Al-Jany
2 goals
- Dina Abdeen
1 goal
- Marah Abbaas
- Deanna Al-Khawaja
- Khetam Shqair
Meisa Behbehani- Narin Abu Asfar
- Dalia Asad
- Selina Ghneim
- Nivin Baddour
- Hayat Dayoub
- Lilas Ebrahim
- Tala Harb
Source: WAFF