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The 2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship was 6th edition of SAFF U-16 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-17 national teams, organized by SAFF. The tournament were played in Nepal from 1–10 March 2024. Four teams from the region participated in the tournament.[1][2]
| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Nepal |
| City | Lalitpur |
| Dates | 1–10 March 2024 |
| Teams | 4 (from 1 sub-confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 1 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Bangladesh (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  India |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 7 |
| Goals scored | 34 (4.86 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,140 (163 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Sauravi Akanda Prity Anushka Kumari (5 goals each) |
| Best player(s) | Sauravi Akanda Prity |
| Best goalkeeper | Yearzan Begum |
| Fair play award |  Bhutan |
← 2023 2025 → | |
Bangladesh is the defending champion having won the title by defeated India by (3)1–1(2) goals penalties shootout in the final on 10 March 2024.[3]
At the SAFF Executive Committee meeting, held on 10 January 2024 in the Dhaka, Bangladesh SAFF announced the name of Nepal host country of the tournament.[1]
The following four nations were participated in the tournament.
All matches were played at ANFA Complex Lalitpur, Nepal.
| Lalitpur | |
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| ANFA Complex | |
| Capacity: 4,000 |
Players born on or after 1 January 2009 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.[citation needed]
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Referees
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Assistant Referees
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Single round-robin, each team played each other. The top teams contest in the final.
| 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
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Status |
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| 1 | Bangladesh |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 9 | Qualified for Final |
| 2 | India |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3 | +15 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Nepal |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 3 | |
| 4 | Bhutan |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | −16 | 0 |
Source: GSA
| Bangladesh | 2–0 | Nepal |
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Sauravi Akanda Prity  24', 31' |
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| Bangladesh | 3–1 | India |
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| Bangladesh | 6–0 | Bhutan |
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| Bangladesh | 1–1 | India |
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| Penalties | ||
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3–2 |
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| 2024 SAFF U-16 Women's Championship Champions |
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 Bangladesh Second title |
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:
Goalscorers
There have been 34 goals scored in 7 matches, for an average of 4.86 goals per match.
5 goals
Sauravi Akanda Prity
Anushka Kumari
4 goals
- Pearl Fernandes
2 goals
- Shveta Rani
- Gurleen Kaur Sidhu
1 goal
- Mariam Binta Hanna
- Fatema Akter
- Kranuching Marma
- Sathi Munda
- Thuinuye Marma
- Alpi Akter
- Arpita Bishwas
- Anwita Raghuraman
- Anita Dungdung
- Bonifilia Shullai
- Gurnaz Kaur
- Rheanna Liz Jacob
Gyanshu Dolmalo- Bhumika Budathoki
- Puja Giri
1 own goal
- Min Maya Shrestha (Against India)
Source: GSA
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