2024 SAFF Women's Championship Host country Nepal Dates 17–30 October 2024 Teams 7 (from 1 sub-confederation) Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
International football competition
The 2024 SAFF Women's Championship will be the 7th edition of the SAFF Women's Championship , the international women's football championship contested by the national teams of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).[1] The tournament is scheduled to play from 17–30 October 2024 in Kathmandu , Nepal.[2] [3]
Bangladesh is the current champion. In the final , Bangladesh played Nepal on 19 September 2022 at the Dasharath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu . Bangladesh won the final match 3–1, claiming their first SAFF title.[4]
Participating teams
The following seven teams will participate in the tournament.
Country
Appearance
Previous best performance
FIFA ranking June 2024
India
7th
Champions (2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2016 , 2019 )
67
Nepal (Host)
7th
Runners-up (2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2019 , 2022 )
98
Bangladesh
7th
Champions (2022 )
140
Sri Lanka
7th
Semi-finals (2012 , 2014 , 2019 )
157
Pakistan
5th
Semi-finals (2010 )
158
Maldives
7th
Semi-finals (2016 )
161
Bhutan
7th
Semi-finals (2022 )
173
Venue
All matches will be played at these venue.
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.[5]
Draw
Draw result
Group stage
All matches will be played at Nepal.
Times listed are UTC+05:45 .
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the Semi-finals
Group A
Group B
First match(es) will be played: 18 October 2024. Source:
[citation needed ] (H) Hosts
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
There have been 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 17 October 2024).
References