2025 SAFF Club Women's Championship

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2025 SAFF Women's Club Championship
Tournament details
Host country Nepal
City Kathmandu
Dates5 December – 20 December
Teams5 (from 5 associations)
Venue(s)1
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The 2025 SAFF Club Women's Championship is the inaugural edition of the SAFF Club Women's Championship, an international women's club football competition featuring leading clubs from South Asia. It is organised by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). Five clubs from the region are scheduled to compete in the tournament, which will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 5 to 20 December 2025. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Association team allocation

Ranking for AFC Women's Club Competitions are made with 70% of AFC club points and 30% of national team points as per FIFA rankings. [7]

Participation for 2025 SAFF Club Women's Championship
Participating
Not participating
Rank Member associationPointsSlots
SAFFAFC
111 Flag of India.svg India 30.7371
219 Flag of Nepal.svg Nepal 19.8311
328 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 16.3621
433 Flag of Bhutan.svg Bhutan 14.3821
534 Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 14.2411
635 Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 14.228—
738 Flag of Maldives.svg Maldives 13.837—
TotalParticipating associations: 55

Format

The competition consists of the following: [8]

Rules

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 tie-breaking 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.

Schedule

StageRoundDates
Group stageMatchday 15 December 2025
Matchday 28 December 2025
Matchday 311 December 2025
Matchday 414 December 2025
Matchday 517 December 2025
Final match20 December 2025

Teams

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Locations of SAFF Club Women's Championship teams

The following teams will participate in the tournament. [8] [9]

Participants
TeamQualifying method
Flag of India.svg East Bengal 2024–25 Indian Women's League champions
Flag of Nepal.svg APF 2024 ANFA Women's League champions
Flag of Bangladesh.svg Nasrin 2023–24 Bangladesh Women's Football League champions
Flag of Bhutan.svg Transport United 2024 Bhutan Women's National League third place
Flag of Pakistan.svg Karachi City 2024 National Women Football Championship winners

Venue

The tournament is scheduled to be played in Kathmandu, Nepal. [10] [11] [12]

Kathmandu
Dasharath Rangasala
Capacity: 15,000
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Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
Table top two teams will advance to the final match

Standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Flag of India.svg East Bengal 00000000Advance to final
2 Flag of Nepal.svg APF (H)00000000
3 Flag of Bangladesh.svg Nasrin 00000000
4 Flag of Bhutan.svg Transport United 00000000
5 Flag of Pakistan.svg Karachi City 00000000
First match(es) will be played: 5 December 2025. Source: SAFF
(H) Hosts

Matches

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Final

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Top scorers

  Team eliminated for this round.
RankPlayerTeamMD1MD2MD3MD4FTotal
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See also

References

  1. ↑ "SAFF Ex. Co meeting approves home or away format for SAFF Championship 2025". saffederation.org. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "SAFF executive committee announce inaugural SAFF club championship". Khel Now. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Women's SAFF Club Championship to begin from this year". Daily Sun.
  4. ↑ "June's SAFF Championship to feature home-and-away fixtures". thedailystar.net.
  5. ↑ "SAFF 2025 to be held on home and away format". www.newagebd.net. 27 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "মেয়েদের সাফ ক্লাব চ্যাম্পিয়নশিপ নভেম্বরে". www.bdnews24.com (in Bengali). 25 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  7. ↑ "AFC Women's Club Competitions Ranking 2024/25" (PDF). the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Five Clubs to Compete in Inaugural SAFF Women's Club Championship – SAFF". saffederation.org. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "SAFF Women's Club Championship announced; inaugural edition to be held in December". Khel Now. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "SAFF Congress elects first female Executive Committee member". saffederation.org. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "SAFF charts ambitious roadmap to uplift regional football". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  12. ↑ "SAFF launches futsal, club and women's tournaments to boost football in region". Khel Now. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
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