2025 SAFF U-19 Championship


The 2025 SAFF U-19 Championship was the 7th edition of the SAFF U-19 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-19 national teams from South Asia region, organized by the South Asian Football Federation. The tournament was played in Yupia, India from 9–18 May 2025.
On 18 May 2025, India won their fourth title by beating Bangladesh 4–3 on penalty in the final after a 1–1 draw at the end of the regular time.

Venue

All matches were played at Golden Jubilee Stadium in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
Yupia
Golden Jubilee Stadium
Capacity: 15,000

Participants teams

The following six national teams participated in the tournament.
TeamAppearances
in the SAFF U-19 Championship		Previous best performance
7th
6th
7th
7th
7th
4thGroup stage

Players eligibility

Each team had to register a squad of minimum 16 and maximum 23 players. Players born on or after 1 January 2007 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
;Squads

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held on 11 March 2025.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3




Match officials

;Referees
  • SM Jashim Akhter
  • Harish Kundu
  • Zaheer Hussain
  • Nabindra Maharjan
  • Md Jafran Athambawa
  • Ugyen Penjor
;Assistant Referees & Fourth Official
: Also performed as assistant referee in some matches.

Group stage

;Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to [Three Three points for a win|points for a win|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.

Group A



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Group B



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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: