The 2022 SAFF U-19 Championship will be the 4th edition of the SAFF U-18 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-18 national teams organized by SAFF. India are the hosts of the tournament, which is set to be held from July 25 to August 3, 2022.[1]
India are the defending champions after having won the previous edition in 2019 by beating Bangladesh with 2–1 margin.[2]
Players born on or after 1 January 2003 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.
Group stage[]
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals
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.
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);
Nepal
India
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Maldives
Sri Lanka