| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Nepal |
| City | Kathmandu |
| Dates | 1–10 March 2024 |
| Teams | 4 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 |
The 2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship is the 6th edition of SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-17 national teams, organized by SAFF. The tournament schedule to play in Nepal from 1–10 March 2024. Four teams from the region will participate in the tournament.[1][2]
Russia is the defending champion having won the previous 2023 edition title for the finished top of the league table.[3]
Host selection
At the SAFF Executive Committee meeting, held on 10 January 2024 in the Dhaka, Bangladesh SAFF announced the name of Nepal host country of the tournament.[1]
Participating nations
The following four nations will participate in the tournament.
| Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-16 Women's Championship |
Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
 Bangladesh |
6th | Champions (2017) |
 Bhutan |
6th | (2018) |
 India |
5th | Champions (2018, 2019) |
 Nepal (Host) |
6th | Champions (2022) |
Venue
All matches will played at Chyasal Stadium Lalitpur, Nepal.
| Lalitpur | |
|---|---|
| Chyasal Stadium | |
| Capacity: 10,000 |
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.
Tournament format
Single round-robin, each team will play each other. The team with the most points becomes champion.
| Key to colours in league table define Champion | |
|---|---|
| Champion | |
- 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.
- 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).
Match officials
League table
Standing
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bangladesh |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Champion |
| 2 | Bhutan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | India |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Nepal (H) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(H) Hosts
Matches
Final
| Table Top Team | v | Table 2nd Place Team |
|---|---|---|
Statistics
Goalscorers
There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 1 March 2024).
References
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