2022 SAFF U-17 Championship
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]
| 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) |
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 | |
|---|---|
| Racecourse Ground | |
| Capacity: 10,000 | |
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Officials
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Referees
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Assistant Referees
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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.
- 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.
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 |
| Bangladesh | 5–1 | Sri Lanka |
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Report | Yasser  77' |
| Maldives | 0–5 | Bangladesh |
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Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
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| 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 |
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 | |||||
Semi-finals
Final
| India | 4–0 | Nepal |
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Report |
Winner
| 7th SAFF U-17 Championship 2022 |
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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
- Unesh Budhathoki
- Thanglalsoun Gangte
- Mirajul Islam
3 goals
- Mohammed Mursed Ali
2 goals
- Vanlalpeka Guite
- Subash Bam
1 goal
- Mohammed Rubel Shaikh
- Sirajul Islam Rana
- Mohammed Nazim Uddin
- Nazmul Huda Faysal
- Jetsune Dorji
- Danny Meitei
- Bobby
- Korou
- Harish Raj Bhatta
- Niraj Karki
- Sijal Rai
- Prashant Laksham
- Semanta Thapa
- Saroj Darlami
- M. M. Yasser Sharfaraz
- Mohamed Aiham Ibrahim
Source: SAFF
See also
References
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