2024 SAFF U-20 Championship

The 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship was the 6th edition of the SAFF U-20 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-20 national teams from South Asia region, organized by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).^[1] The tournament were played in Lalitpur, Nepal from 18–28 August 2024.^[2][3]

Bangladesh are the defending champions, who won their maiden title by defeating Nepal 4–1 goals in the final on 28 August 2024.^[4]

The all matches were played at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal.

The following six participants were participated in the tournament.

•  Pakistan withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held at Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants were divided into two groups, A consisting of four and B of three teams.^[5]

Referees

Assistant referees

• Md Nuruzzaman
• Hem Kumar Sunwar
• Dipesh Manohar Sawant
• Raeef Rauf
• Sahadev Shrestha
• Lahiru M. Jayaneththi

Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team has to register a squad of minimum 16 and maximum 23 players.

• Times listed are UTC+05:45 Nepal Standard Time (NST).

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.

• In the knockout stage, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

There have been 20 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 2.22 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: GSA

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