2023 SAFF U-16 Championship

The 2023 SAFF U-16 Championship will be the 8th 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).[1]

2023 SAFF U-16 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryBhutan
Dates1–11 September 2023
Teams6 (from 1 confederation)

India is the defending champion. They have won previous season title by beating Nepal 4−0 on 14 September 2022.[2]

Venue

All matches are being held in Bhutan.

Participating teams
Team Appearances
in the SAFF U-17 Championship		 Previous best performance
 Bangladesh 8th Champions (2015, 2018)
 Bhutan 6th Fourth Place
 India 8th Champions (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022)
   Nepal 8th Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019, 2022)
 Sri Lanka 7th Semi-final (2022)
 Maldives 6th Group Stage
 Pakistan 4th Champions (2011)

Players' eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2007, 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 yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

See also

References
  1. "SAFF Youth Competitions to forward to in 2023". FB. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. "India sweep past 10-man Nepal to lift SAFF U-17 title". AIFF. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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