2025 SAFF U-19 Championship

The 2025 SAFF U-19 Championship was the 7th edition of the SAFF U-19 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-19 national teams from South Asia region, organized by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The tournament was played in Yupia, India from 9–18 May 2025.

On 18 May 2025, India won their fourth title by beating Bangladesh 4–3 on penalty in the final after a 1–1 draw at the end of the regular time.

Venue

All matches were played at Golden Jubilee Stadium in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Participants teams

The following six national teams participated in the tournament.

Players eligibility

Each team had to register a squad of minimum 16 and maximum 23 players. Players born on or after 1 January 2007 were eligible to compete in the tournament (as per FIFA eligibility rules of underage competitions).

Squads

Draw

The draw ceremony of the tournament was held on 11 March 2025.

Draw result

Match officials

Referees

• Bangladesh SM Jashim Akhter
• India Harish Kundu (†)
• Maldives Zaheer Hussain (†)
• Nepal Nabindra Maharjan (†)
• Sri Lanka Md Jafran Athambawa (†)
• Bhutan Ugyen Penjor (†)

Assistant Referees & Fourth Official

• Bangladesh Shohrab Hossain
• Bangladesh Sourav Sarker
• Bhutan Tshering Phuntsho
• Maldives Raeef Rauf
• Nepal Prakash Bhujel
• Sri Lanka L. Dhanushka Sampath

(†): Also performed as assistant referee in some matches.

Group stage

• Times listed are UTC+05:30 Indian Standard Time (IST).

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.

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
8. 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);
9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Final

Winners

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 36 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 4 goals per match.

5 goals

• India Danny Meitei

3 goals

• Bangladesh Nazmul Huda Faysal
• India Omang Dodum
• India Prashant Jajo

2 goals

• Nepal Sujan Dangol
• India Singamayum Shami

1 goal

• Bangladesh Md Rifat Kazi
• Bangladesh Ali Mursed
• Bangladesh Sree Sumon Soren
• Bangladesh Ashikur Rahman
• Bangladesh Md Joy Ahamed
• Bhutan Lham Tenzin
• Bhutan Chhogyel Sherab
• India Mohammed Arbas
• India Roshan Singh
• India Rohen Singh
• Maldives Ethan Ibrahim Zaki
• Maldives Anoof Abdulla
• Maldives Ibrahim Mohammed
• Maldives Aidh Mohammed
• Nepal Dharbendra Kunwar
• Nepal Subhash Bam
• Nepal Bigyan Khadka
• Nepal Lachhu Thapa

Source:

Hat-tricks

Note: Bold indicates the winning team.

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Broadcasting

See also

• 2025–26 AFC Women's Champions League

External links

• at GSA
• at Soccerway