2025 SAFF U-17 Championship

The 2025 SAFF U-17 Championship was the 10th 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 was played from 15–27 September 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
India are the defending champions, who won their seventh title by defeating Bangladesh 2–2 goals penalty shootout in the final on 27 September 2025.

Venue

All matches were played at the Colombo Racecourse Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Colombo
Colombo Racecourse Stadium
Capacity: 10,000

Participating teams

The following seven teams are participated in the tournament.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
	10th
	8th
	10th
	8th
	10th
	6th
	8th

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 20 July 2025. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.

Match officials

The following officials were chosen for the competition by SAFF tournament committee.
;Referees

Md Alamgir Sarker
Pema Tshewang
Ashwin Kumar
Afsheen Naseer
Shyam Lal Danuwar
Kasun L. Weerkakkody

;Assistant Referees

SM Junayed Sharif
Hem Kumar Sunwar
P Muralitharan
Harish Karki
Dilawar Khan
Lahiru M Jayaneththi

;Match Commissioner

Sudhir M Chembazhi
De Silva Jayasooriya

;Referee Assessor

Mohamed Ameez

: working as both referee and assistant

Players eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2009 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+5:30 Sri Lanka Standard Time.

;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.

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.