2024 SAFF U-20 Championship

The 2024 SAFF U-20 Championship will be the 6th edition of the SAFF U-20 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-20 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). It will take place from 18–28 August 2024 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

India are the defending champions, who won their third title by defeating Pakistan 3–0 goals in the final on 30 September 2023.

Venue
The tournament will be held at the Dasharath Rangasala in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Participants teams
The following six participants will participate in the tournament.


 * withdrew from the competition on 11 July 2024.

Draw and withdrawals after the draw
The draw ceremony of the tournament was held at Hotel InterContinental, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 8 June 2024. The seven participants was divided into two groups which Group A consist four teams & followed by Group B three teams.

Players eligibility
Players born on or after 1 January 2006 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
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.
 * Times listed are UTC+05:45 Nepal Standard Time (NST).
 * Tiebreakers
 * 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.

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.