2023 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship
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UEFA Assist SAFF U-17 Women's Championship | |
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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. |
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 |
Assistant Referees
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
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1 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 9 | Champion |
2 | Bangladesh (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 | |
3 | India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | +11 | 6 | |
4 | Nepal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 | |
5 | Bhutan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 31 | −29 | 0 |
Matches
All times at local (UTC+6)
Nepal | 1–4 | India |
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Report (SAFF) Report (AIFF) |
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Bhutan | 1–8 | Bangladesh |
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Report (SAFF) Report (UNB) |
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Bangladesh | 0–3 | Russia |
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Report (SAFF) Report (UNB) |
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Bhutan | 0–5 | Nepal |
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Report (SAFF) Report (Goalnepal) |
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Russia | 9–1 | Bhutan |
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Anastasia Karataeva 37'
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Report (SAFF) Report (TBS) |
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India | 0–1 | Bangladesh |
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Report (SAFF) Report (Daily Sun) |
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India | 9–0 | Bhutan |
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Nepal | 0–3 | Russia |
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Bangladesh | Match 9 | Nepal |
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Statistics
Goalscorers
There were 45 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 5.62 goals per match (as of 26 March 2023). Source: SAFF
- 8 Goals
- 5 Goals
- 3 Goals
- 2 Goals
- Sree Moti Trisna Rani
- Thuinuye Marma
- Senu Pariyar
- Anastasia Karataeva
- Eseniia Kadyntseva
- Sibani Devi Nongmeikapam
- 1 Goal
- Thoibisana Chanu Toijam
- Menaka Lourembam
- Preya Ghalley
- Pooja
- Mst Sultana Akter
- Sauravi Akanda Prity
- Munne
- Dipa Rokaya
- Mst Sagorika
- Polina Bogdanova
- Polina Filshina
- 1 own goal
See also
References
- ^ "SAFF to announced 2023 tournament calendar". South Asian Football Federation. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "SAFF to revise fixtures after FIFA bans India". Daily New Age. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Nepal Crowned U-15 Women's SAFF Champions". www.goalnepal.com. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ^ @wfootball_bd (8 February 2023). "Russia to play in the UEFA sponsored SAFF U17 Women's Championship in March" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "সাফে খেলবে রাশিয়া!" (in Bengali). Bangla Tribune. 8 February 2023.
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