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. The tournament were played in Lalitpur, Nepal from 18–28 August 2024.
Bangladesh are the defending champions, who won their maiden title by defeating Nepal 4–1 goals in the final on 28 August 2024.
Venue
The all matches were played at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal.| Lalitpur |
| ANFA Complex |
| Capacity: 6,000 |
Participants teams
The following six participants were participated in the tournament.| Team | Appearances in the SAFF U-20 Championship | Previous best performance |
| 6th | ||
| 5th | ||
| 6th | ||
| 6th | ||
| 6th | ||
| 3rd | Group stage |
- withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.
Draw
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.Seedings
| Team | |
| A1 | |
| A2 | |
| A3 | |
| A4 |
| Team | |
| B1 | |
| B2 | |
| B3 |
Match officials
;Referees- Bituraj Barua
- Ugyen Penjor
- Senthil Nathan Sekaran
- Afsheen Naseer
- Shyamlal Danuwar
- Mohamed Jafran Athambawa
- Md Nuruzzaman
- Hem Kumar Sunwar
- Dipesh Manohar Sawant
- Raeef Rauf
- Sahadev Shrestha
- Lahiru M. Jayaneththi
Players eligibility
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.Group stage
- Times listed are UTC+05:45 Nepal Standard 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 stage, 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.