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 (SAFF). The tournament was played from 15–27 September 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.^[1][2][3]

India are the defending champions, who won their seventh title by defeating Bangladesh (4)2–2(1) goals penalty shootout in the final on 27 September 2025.^[4]

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

The following seven teams are participated in the tournament.

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.^[5]

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

Referees

Assistant Referees

Match Commissioner

Referee Assessor

(†): working as both referee and assistant

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.

• Times listed are UTC+5:30 Sri Lanka Standard Time (SLST).

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), 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 (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellows, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
9. Drawing of lots.

• In the knockout stages, if a match finished goalless at the end of normal playing time, extra time would have been played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.

There were 43 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.58 goals per match.

6 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: Sofascore

• Official website
• 2025 SAFF U-17 Championship at GSA