The 2024 SAFF U-17 Championship was the ninth 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). Its played from 20 to 30 September 2024 in Thimphu, Bhutan.
India are the defending champions, who won their sixth title by defeating Bangladesh 2–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2024.
Venue All matches played at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan.
ThimphuChanglimithang StadiumCapacity: 15,000
Participating teams The following seven teams were participated in the tournament. TeamAppearancesin the SAFF U-17 ChampionshipPrevious best performance 9th (Host) 7th 9th 7th 9th 5th 7th
Draw The draw ceremony of the tournament was held in Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist three teams & followed by Group B four teams.
Draw Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4 (hosts)
Draw result +Group ATeamA1A2A3+Group BTeamB1B2B3B4
Match officials Referees
Md Symoon Hasan Sany Pema Tshewang Mrutyunjay L Amatya Zaheer Hussain Nabindra Maharjan Sashanka Madushanka Assistant referees Sujoy Barua Tshering Phuntsho Sourav Sarkar Abdulla Shathir Harish Karki Indunil Sandakelum
Players eligibility Players born on or after 1 January 2008 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 Times listed are UTC+06:00 Bhutan Time. Key to colours in group tablesGroup 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. 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 yellows, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage 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.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Goalscorers
Winner
Awards Fair Play AwardBest GoalkeeperHighest GoalscorerMost Valuable Player Aheibam Suraj Singh Sujan Dangol Mohammed Arbash
See also 2024 SAFF Women's Championship 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship 2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship 2024 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship
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