2023 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship

2023 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Bangladesh
Dates	3–9 February
Teams	4 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in Dhaka host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Bangladesh (3rd title)
Runners-up	Nepal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Goals scored	32 (4.57 per match)
Attendance	22,748 (3,250 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amisha Karki; Shamsunnahar Junior; (4 goals each)
Best player(s)	Shamsunnahar Junior
Best goalkeeper	Rupna Chakma
Fair play award	Bhutan

The 2023 SAFF U-20 Women's Championship was the 4th edition of the SAFF U-18/19/20 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under–20 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament were played from 3–9 February 2023 in Bangladesh.^[1]^[2]

Bangladesh is the defending champion having defeated Nepal by 3–0 goals in the final of the tournament on 9 February 2023.^[3]

Venue

All matches were held at the BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Dhaka	Dhaka
BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium
Capacity: 25,000

Participating nations

Team	App	Last	Best placement in the tournament
Bangladesh	4th	2022	Champions (2018, 2021)
Bhutan	3rd	2021	Fourth-place (2018)
India	4th	2022	Champions (2022)
Nepal	4th	2022	Runners-up (2018)

Players eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2003 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.

Match officials

Referees

Maya Lado
Kusum Mandi
Jaya Chakma
Yangkhey Tshering
Meera Tamang

Assistant referees

Salma Akter Mone
Merina Dhimal
Chim Chim Serto
Prem Kumari Sunwar

Round robin

Key to colours in group tables
	Table top two teams advance to the final

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 tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
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);
Drawing of lots.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
1	Bangladesh (H)	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7	Advance to the Final
2	Nepal	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6	Advance to the Final
3	India	3	1	1	1	13	3	+10	4
4	Bhutan	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Source: SAFF
(H) Hosts

Matches

3 February 2023

15:00

India	12–0	Bhutan
Apurna 29', 36' Nitu 43' Neha 45+2', 55', 90' Anita 50', 69', 78' Lynda 61', 63', 75'	Report (SAFF) Report (AIFF)

BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium, Dhaka

Attendance: 204

Referee: Jaya Chakma (Bangladesh)

3 February 2023