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The 2022 SAFF U-17 Championship was the seventh 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 took place in Sri Lanka from September 5 to 14, 2022. Six teams from the region took part.[1]
India is the defending champion. They have won previous season title by beating Nepal 7−0 on 31 August 2019.[2]
Participating teams
FIFA suspended Pakistan Football Federation on 7 April 2021,[3] but eventually withdrew the ban, yet they could not participate in the competition as it was too late for them to be ready.[4]
| Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Championship |
Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Fbu | 7th | Champions (2015, 2018) |
| Template:Fbu | 5th | Fourth Place |
| Template:Fbu | 7th | Champions (2013, 2017, 2019) |
| Template:Fbu | 5th | Group Stage |
| Template:Fbu | 7th | Runners-up (2013, 2017, 2019) |
| Template:Fbu (Host) | 6th | Group Stage |
Venue
All matches are being held at the Racecourse Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
| Colombo | Template:Location map |
|---|---|
| Racecourse Ground | |
| Capacity: 10,000 | |
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Officials
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- Template:Flagicon Abdulla Shathir
- Template:Flagicon Athambawa Mohammed Jafran
- Template:Flagicon Pema Tshewang
- Template:Flagicon Kabin Byanjankar
Template:Col-2 Assistant Referees
- Template:Flagicon Sujoy Barua
- Template:Flagicon Md Alamgir Sarker
- Template:Flagicon Liyanagunawardhana Dhanushka Sampath
- Template:Flagicon Niushad Mohamed
- Template:Flagicon Yunal Malla
- Template:Flagicon Passang Tshering
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Fbu (Hosts) Template:Fbu |
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| 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
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Bracket
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Semi-finals
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Final
Winner
Goalscorers
See also
- 2022 SAFF Women's Championship
- 2022 SAFF U-18 Women's Championship
- 2022 SAFF U-15 Women's Championship
- 2022 SAFF U-20 Championship
References
- ↑ All you need to know about the 2021 SAFF calendar. Goal.com(17 April 2021). Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ↑ With 28 goals in 5 games, India lift SAFF U-15 Title. saffederation.org. AIFF.
- ↑ FIFA suspends Chad and Pakistan football associations. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ↑ Draw ceremony for SAFF Women’s Championship and SAFF U17 Championship held. Retrieved 28 August 2022.