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2023 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship
UEFA Assist SAFF U-17 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Bangladesh
City	Dhaka
Dates	20–28 March 2023
Teams	5 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	45 (5.63 per match)
Attendance	3,685 (461 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Shilji Shaji; (8 goals)
	← 2022 2024 → All statistics correct as of 26 March 2023.

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The 2023 UEFA Assist U-17 Women's Championship is the 5th edition of SAFF U-15 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-17 national teams, organized by SAFF in collaboration with UEFA. The tournament being play in Bangladesh from 20 to 28 March 2023. Five teams from the region will take part.^[1]^[2]

Nepal is the defending champion having won the previous 2022 edition title for the finished top of the league table.^[3]

Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Match officials

Referees

Jaya Chakma
Yangkhey Tshering
Kanika Barman
Anjana Rai
Meera Tamang

Assistant Referees

Salma Akter Mone
Prem Kumari Sunwar
Choden Kingzang
Radhika Shakya
Abhirami Thambilali

Participating nations

Russia is set to feature in the tournament for the first time as a guest nation, following suspension by FIFA and UEFA for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[4]^[5]

Team	Appearances in the SAFF U-15 Women's Championship	Previous best performance
Bangladesh (Host)	3rd	Champions (2017)
Bhutan	3rd	3rd (2018)
India	3rd	Champions (2018, 2019)
Nepal	3rd	Champions (2022)
Russia (invited guest)	1st	debut

Venue

All matches will be held at the BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka	Dhaka
BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium
Capacity: 25,000

Tournament format

Single round-robin, each team will play each other. The team with the most points becomes champion.

Key to colours in league table define Champion
	Champion

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.

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 (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points).

League table

Standing

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
1	Russia	3	3	0	15	1	+14	9	Champion
2	Bangladesh (H)	3	2	1	9	4	+5	6
3	India	3	2	1	13	2	+11	6
4	Nepal	3	1	2	6	7	−1	3
5	Bhutan	4	0	4	2	31	−29	0

Updated to match(es) played on 26 March 2023. Source: SAFF
(H) Hosts

Matches

All times at local (UTC+6)

20 March 2023

15:15

Nepal	1–4	India
Barsha Oli 54'	Report (SAFF) Report (AIFF)	Shilji 10', 40', 81' Pooja 41'

BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium, Dhaka

Attendance: 203

Referee: Yangkhey Tshering (Bhutan)

20 March 2023