2021 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship

The 2021 SAFF U-19 Women's Championship was the second edition of the SAFF U-19 Women's Championship, an international football competition for women's under-19 national teams organized by SAFF. The tournament was held from 11 to 22 December 2021 at BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium, Dhaka in Bangladesh.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Bangladesh is the defending champion having defeated India 1–0 goals in the final of the tournament.^[7]

On 14 October 2021, SAFF members board meeting took place in Malé, Maldives, where Bangladesh was announced to be the host of the tournament.^[8]

All matches were held at the BSSS Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

FIFA suspended Pakistan Football Federation on 7 April 2021, so they cannot participate in this competition.^[9] Maldives withdrew from the tournament before the fixtures were finalised.

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 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.

Referees

Assistant referees

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.

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

There have been 44 goals scored in 11 matches, for an average of 4 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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