The 2021 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship is the 2nd edition of the SAFF U-19 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-19 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament will be hosted from December 2021 at a venue which is yet to be confirmed.[1][2]
Host Selection
On 14th October 2021 SAFF members board took place in Malé, Maldives. End of the meeting announced Bangladesh earned hosting right of the championship.
Players born on or after 1 January 2002 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
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals
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.
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);
Bangladesh
Nepal
India
Bhutan
Maldives
Sri Lanka