The 2025 WAFF Women's Championship was the ninth edition of the WAFF Women's Championship, the international football tournament organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's national teams of West Asia. The tournament will be hosted by Saudi Arabia for the second time, after they had hosted the previous edition in 2024, from 24 November to 2 December.
Jordan were four-time defending champions, having won the previous four editions (2014, 2019, 2022, and 2024).
Teams Participating teams On 16 October 2025, the WAFF announced that six countries will participate in the 2025 edition.
Country Appearance Previous best performanceFIFA rankingAugust 2025 9th Champions (2005, 2007, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2024)76 4th Champions (2010, 2011) 117 6th Runners-up (2022)125 8th Runners-up (2014) 129 2nd Group stage (2024) 164 3rd Group stage (2011, 2024)166
Did not enter
Draw The final draw took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 16 October 2025. As the host nation, Saudi Arabia were seeded at the top of Group A, while defending champions Jordan were placed at the top of Group B. The draw subsequently assigned the United Arab Emirates and Iraq to Group A, and Lebanon and Palestine to Group B.
Squads
Each team had to register a squad of 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.
Venues On 19 October 2025, the WAFF announced Jeddah as the designated host city, with one chosen venue: the Hall Stadium of the King Abdullah Sports City. Jeddah Hall Stadium – King Abdullah Sports City Capacity: 10,000
Group stage
Tiebreakers Teams will be 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 will be 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; 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); Drawing of lots.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
GK 23Sharlot PhillipsDF 4Sireen Ghattas (C)FW 2Rina OsorioDF 3Sara KordDF 6Ahlam-Laila NasrMF 10Laila Al-Shaikh FW 11Nour YoussefFW 12Dalia Asad-Halim MF 15Miral Qassis FW 17Nadine Mohamed FW 22Narin Abu Asfar Substitutions:FW 9Naomi Phillips MF 7Jeniver Shattara FW 8Florencia Sabat MF 5Sara Al-Shakhshir MF 21Annasoraya Khoury Head coach:Ahmed Sharf GK 12 Rawned KassapDF 19Ayah Al-Majali (C)MF 5 Marah Abu TayehMF 6 Celine Akroush DF 7 Farah Abu Tayeh MF 8 Enas Al-JamaeenFW 9 Bana Al-Bitar FW 10 Roukayah Al-Fararjeh FW 15Mai Sweilem DF20Lana FerasDF 21Rand Abu-HusseinSubstitutions:FW 11Jinan Said FW 17Ida Tamimi MF 2Taqi Al-Zabrey MF 14Yasmeen Al-Ajrab MF 18Tahreer Al-Qawasmeh Head coach: David Nascimento Assistant referees: Karrar Abbas (Iraq) Jana Haydar (Lebanon) Fourth official: Mohammed Al-Manii (Oman)
Goal scorers
References