2026 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship

2026 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Bhutan
City	Thimphu
Teams	7 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue	1
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The 2026 SAFF U-17 Women's Championship will be 8th edition of SAFF U-17 Women's Championship an international football competition for women's under-17 national teams, organized by South Asian Football Federation. The scheduled tournament in Bhutan which was from 8–15 May 2026 is currently on hold potentially because the defending champions, India, are presently competing in the 2026 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup (1–17 May 2026). It is expected that 7 teams will participate in this tournament as Maldives will debut in this year's tournament.^[1]

India is the current defending champion having won the title for the finished tournament by 5 win of 6 with 15 points on 31 August 2025.^[2]

Players eligibility

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.

Participating nations

The following nations are expected to participating in the tournament.

Team	Appearances in the SAFF U-17 Women's Championship	Best performance
Bangladesh	8th	Champions (2017, 2024)
Bhutan (Host)	8th	3rd place (2018)
India	7th	Champions (2018, 2019)
Nepal	8th	Champions (2022)
Pakistan	2nd	Group Stage(2022)
Sri Lanka	2nd	Group Stage(2022)
Maldives	Debut	Debut

Venue

All matches being play at Changlimithang Stadium

Thimphu
Changlimithang Stadium
Capacity: 25,000

Draw

The draw ceremony of this tournament has not been held yet. The schedule will be announced soon.

Draw pot

Pot Will be published soon.

Draw result

Draw Ceremony has not been held yet.

Squads

To be decided.

Match officials

Referees

Not yet selected. List Will be selected soon.

Assistant Referees

Not yet selected. List Will be selected soon.

Round robin

Key to colours in group tables
	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 tie-breaking 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);
Drawing of lots.