2022 SAFF U-17 Championship


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. The tournament took place in Sri Lanka from September 5 to 14, 2022. Six teams from the region took part.
India is the defending champion. They have won previous season title by beating Nepal 7−0 on 31 August 2019.

Participating teams

FIFA suspended Pakistan Football Federation on 7 April 2021, but eventually withdrew the ban, yet they could not participate in the competition as it was too late for them to be ready.
TeamAppearances
in the SAFF U-17 Championship		Previous best performance
7thChampions
5thFourth Place
7thChampions
5thGroup Stage
7thRunners-up
6thGroup Stage

Venue

All matches are being held at the Racecourse Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Colombo
Racecourse Ground
Capacity: 10,000

Officials

Referees
  • Abdulla Shathir
  • Athambawa Mohammed Jafran
  • Pema Tshewang
  • Kabin Byanjankar
Assistant Referees
  • Sujoy Barua
  • Md Alamgir Sarker
  • Liyanagunawardhana Dhanushka Sampath
  • Niushad Mohamed
  • Yunal Malla
  • 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.''

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

;Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points, 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 ;
  9. Drawing of lots.
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Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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