2024 SAFF U-17 Championship
The 2024 SAFF U-17 Championship was the ninth edition of the SAFF U-17 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-17 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation. Its played from 20–30 September 2024 in Thimphu, Bhutan.
India are the defending champions, who won their sixth title by defeating Bangladesh 2–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2024.
Venue
All matches played at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.Participating teams
The following seven teams were participated in the tournament.| Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Championship | Previous best performance |
| 9th | ||
| 7th | ||
| 9th | ||
| 7th | ||
| 9th | ||
| 5th | ||
| 7th |
Draw
The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.Match officials
;Referees- Md Symoon Hasan Sany
- Pema Tshewang
- Mrutyunjay L Amatya
- Zaheer Hussain
- Nabindra Maharjan
- Sashanka Madushanka
- Sujoy Barua
- Tshering Phuntsho
- Sourav Sarkar
- Abdulla Shathir
- Harish Karki
- Indunil Sandakelum
Players eligibility
Players born on or after 1 January 2008 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+06:00 Bhutan Time.
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.
- 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 ;
- Drawing of lots.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
- In the knockout stages, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.