SAFF_Women's_Championship Knowpia

SAFF Women's Championship
Organising body	SAFF
Founded	2010; 14 years ago
Region	South Asia
Number of teams	7 Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Maldives; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka;
Current champions	Bangladesh (1st title); (2022)
Most successful team(s)	India (5 titles)
Website	saffederation.org
	2024

The SAFF Women's Championship, also called the South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup, is a competition for women's national football teams governed by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). All seven members are eligible to participate in the tournament.

History edit

The current SAFF members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Formerly, eight members used to compete, prior to the departure of Afghanistan from SAFF. It is held every two years.

India won first 5 edition so far, beating Nepal four times and Bangladesh once in the final.^[1]^[2] Bangladesh is the current champion having defeated Nepal by 3–1 goals on 19 September 2022 in the final.^[3]

Results edit

Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Losing semi-finalists
2010 Details	Bangladesh	India	1–0	Nepal	Bangladesh and Pakistan
2012 Details	Sri Lanka	India	3–1	Nepal	Afghanistan, Sri Lanka
2014 Details	Pakistan	India	6–0	Nepal	Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
2016 Details	India	India	3–1	Bangladesh	Maldives and Nepal
2019 Details	Nepal	India	3–1	Nepal	Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
2022 Details	Nepal	Bangladesh	3–1	Nepal	Bhutan and India

Statistics edit

Performance by nation edit

Nation	Champions	Runners-up	Semi-finalists
India	5 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019)		1 (2022)
Bangladesh	1 (2022)	1 (2016)	3 (2010, 2014, 2019)
Nepal		5 (2010, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022)	1 (2016)
Sri Lanka			3 (2012, 2014, 2019)
Bhutan			1 (2022)
Maldives			1 (2016)
Pakistan			1 (2012)
Former Team
Afghanistan*			1 (2012)

Bold = Hosts

* = Not part of SAFF anymore

Participating nations edit

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
SF – Semifinals
GS – Group stage
dq – Disqualified/Suspended by FIFA/AFC/SAFF.
q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
— Hosts
× – Did not enter
× – Withdrew before tournament begins
— Not part of SAFF

Team	2010	2012	2014	2016	2019	2022	2024	Total
Bangladesh	SF	GS	SF	2nd	SF	1st	Q	7
Bhutan	GS	GS	GS	GS	GS	SF	Q	7
India	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	SF	Q	7
Nepal	2nd	2nd	2nd	SF	2nd	2nd	Q	7
Maldives	GS	GS	GS	SF	GS	GS	Q	7
Pakistan	SF	GS	GS	×	×	GS	Q	5
Sri Lanka	GS	SF	SF	GS	SF	GS	Q	7
Former Team
Afghanistan	GS	SF	GS	GS	Not part of SAFF			4

All-time table edit

As of 2022

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
1	India	6	27	24	1	2	150	10	+140	73
2	Nepal	6	27	21	0	6	114	20	+94	63
3	Bangladesh	6	23	13	1	9	61	33	+28	40
4	Sri Lanka	6	19	6	1	12	18	54	–36	19
5	Pakistan	4	13	5	0	8	20	47	–27	15
6	Maldives	6	18	3	2	13	14	75	–61	11
7	Afghanistan	4	12	1	2	9	10	67	–57	5
8	Bhutan	6	17	1	1	15	8	89	–81	4

Winning coaches edit

Year	Team	Coach
2010	India	Mohammad Shahid Jabbar
2012		Mohammad Shahid Jabbar
2014		Tarun Roy
2016		Sajid Dar
2019		Maymol Rocky
2022	Bangladesh	Golam Robbani

Awards edit

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. The Most Valuable Player (best overall player), Top scorers (top scorer) and Best Goalkeeper (goalkeeper with the most clean sheets) awards were given to the player and, the Fair play award were given to the Team.^[4]

Year	Most Valuable Player	Top scorer(s)		Best goalkeeper	Fair play award
Year	Most Valuable Player	Player(s)	Goals	Best goalkeeper	Fair play award
2010	Bala Devi	Bala Devi Sasmita Malik	11	Not awarded	Not awarded
2012	Yumnam Kamala Devi	Jamuna Gurung	8		Not awarded
2014	Sabina Khatun	Bala Devi	16		Maldives
2016	Indumathi Kathiresan	Sabitra Bhandari	12		Nepal
2019	Grace Dangmei	Sabitra Bhandari Indumathi Kathiresan	4		Bangladesh
2022	Sabina Khatun	Sabina Khatun	8	Rupna Chakma	Bangladesh

References edit

^ "GoalNepal.com - A Complete Nepali Football website". Goalnepal.com. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ "Ranjith Rodrigo appointed acting President of SAFF". Dailynews.lk. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
^ "Bangladesh women make history, clinch maiden SAFF title". The Daily Star. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
^ "BANGLADESH WIN MAIDEN SAFF WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE". saffederation.org. 19 September 2022. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.