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===Top goalscorers of all time===
===Top goalscorers of all time===

Revision as of 22:20, 1 November 2024

This article is about the women tournament. For the men's tournament, see SAFF Championship.
SAFF Women's Championship
Organising bodySAFF
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
RegionSouth Asia
Number of teams
7
Current champions Bangladesh
(2nd title)
Most successful team(s) India (5 titles)
Television broadcastersFanCode
Websitesaffederation.org
2024 SAFF Women's Championship

The SAFF Women's Championship, also called the South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup, is a competition for women's national football teams governed by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). All seven members are eligible to participate in the tournament.

History

The current SAFF members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Formerly, eight members used to compete, prior to the departure of Afghanistan from SAFF. It is held every two years.

India won first 5 edition so far, beating Nepal four times and Bangladesh once in the final.[1][2] Bangladesh is the current champion having defeated Nepal by 2–1 goals on 30th October 2024 in the final.[3]

Results

Year Host Final Losing semi-finalists
Champion Score Runner-up
2010
Details 		 Bangladesh
India 		1–0
Nepal 		 Bangladesh and  Pakistan
2012
Details 		 Sri Lanka
India 		3–1
Nepal 		 Afghanistan and  Sri Lanka
2014
Details 		 Pakistan
India 		6–0
Nepal 		 Bangladesh and  Sri Lanka
2016
Details 		 India
India 		3–1
Bangladesh 		 Maldives and  Nepal
2019
Details 		   Nepal
India 		3–1
Nepal 		 Bangladesh and  Sri Lanka
2022
Details 		   Nepal
Bangladesh 		3–1
Nepal 		 Bhutan and  India
2024
Details 		   Nepal
Bangladesh 		2–1
Nepal 		 Bhutan and  India


Statistics

Performance by nation

Nation Champions Runners-up Semi-finalists
 India 5 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019) 2 (2022, 2024)
 Bangladesh 2 (2022, 2024) 1 (2016) 3 (2010, 2014, 2019)
 Nepal 6 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2024) 1 (2016)
 Sri Lanka 3 (2012, 2014, 2019)
 Bhutan 2 (2022, 2024)
 Afghanistan* 1 (2012)
 Maldives 1 (2016)
 Pakistan 1 (2012)
Bold = Hosts
* = Not part of SAFF anymore

Participating nations

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
  • SF – Semifinals
  • GS – Group stage
  • dq – Disqualified/Suspended by FIFA/AFC/SAFF.
  • q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
  •     — Hosts
  •  ×  – Did not enter
  •  ×  – Withdrew before tournament begins
  •     — Not part of SAFF
Team Bangladesh
2010 		Sri Lanka
2012 		Pakistan
2014 		India
2016 		Nepal
2019 		Nepal
2022 		Nepal
2024 		Total
 Bangladesh SF GS SF 2nd SF 1st 1st 7
 Bhutan GS GS GS GS GS SF SF 7
 India 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st SF SF 7
 Nepal 2nd 2nd 2nd SF 2nd 2nd 2nd 7
 Maldives GS GS GS SF GS GS GS 7
 Pakistan SF GS GS × × GS GS 5
 Sri Lanka GS SF SF GS SF GS GS 7
Former team(s)
 Afghanistan GS SF GS GS Not part of SAFF 4

All-time table

As of 30 October 2024

Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA Dif Pts
1  India 7 30 25 2 3 157 16 +141 77
2  Nepal 7 32 23 2 7 133 23 +110 71
3  Bangladesh 7 27 16 2 9 74 37 +37 50
4  Sri Lanka 7 25 8 1 16 22 74 –52 25
5  Pakistan 5 15 5 1 9 23 53 –30 16
6  Maldives 7 21 3 2 16 14 100 –86 11
7  Bhutan 7 21 3 1 17 26 97 –71 10
8  Afghanistan 4 12 1 2 9 10 67 –57 5

Top goalscorers of all time

As of 30 October 2024
Name Goals
India Ngangom Bala Devi 27
Bangladesh Sabina Khatun 26

Nepal Anu Lama

22
Nepal Sabitra Bhandari 21
India Sasmita Mallick 20
Nepal Jamuna Gurung 17
India Kamala Devi 17
Nepal Sajana Rana 10

Bhutan Deki Lhazom

10

Nepal Rekha Poudel

8

Winning coaches

Year Team Coach
2010  India India Mohammad Shahid Jabbar
2012
2014 India Tarun Roy
2016 India Sajid Dar
2019 India Maymol Rocky
2022  Bangladesh Bangladesh Golam Robbani
2024  Bangladesh England Peter Butler

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. The Most Valuable Player (best overall player), Top scorers (top scorer) and Best Goalkeeper (goalkeeper with the most clean sheets) awards were given to the player and, the Fair play award were given to the Team.[4]

Year Most Valuable Player Top scorer(s) Best goalkeeper Fair play award
Player(s) Goals
2010 India Bala Devi India Sasmita Malik 13 Not awarded Not awarded
2012 India Yumnam Kamala Devi Nepal Jamuna Gurung 8
2014 Bangladesh Sabina Khatun India Bala Devi 16  Maldives
2016 India Indumathi Kathiresan Nepal Sabitra Bhandari 12  Nepal
2019 India Grace Dangmei Nepal Sabitra Bhandari
India Indumathi Kathiresan 		4  Bangladesh
2022 Bangladesh Sabina Khatun Bangladesh Sabina Khatun 8 Bangladesh Rupna Chakma  Bangladesh
2024 Bangladesh Ritu Porna Chakma Bhutan Deki Lhazom 8 Bangladesh Rupna Chakma  Bhutan

See also

References

  1. ^ "GoalNepal.com - A Complete Nepali Football website". Goalnepal.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Ranjith Rodrigo appointed acting President of SAFF". Dailynews.lk. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Bangladesh women make history, clinch maiden SAFF title". The Daily Star. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  4. ^ "BANGLADESH WIN MAIDEN SAFF WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE". saffederation.org. 19 September 2022. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
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