2025 SAFF Club Women's Championship

2025 SAFF Club Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Nepal
City	Kathmandu
Dates	5 – 20 December
Teams	5 (from 5 associations)
Venue	1
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Last updated October 07, 2025

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 teams from the region are scheduled to compete in Kathmandu from 5 to 20 December.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Association team allocation

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

SAFF Club Women's Championship
	Participating
	Not participating

Rank		Member association	Points	Slots
SAFF	AFC	Member association	Points	Slots
1	11	India	30.737	1
2	19	Nepal	19.831	1
3	28	Bangladesh	16.362	1
4	33	Bhutan	14.382	1
5	34	Pakistan	14.241	1
6	35	Sri Lanka	14.228	—
7	38	Maldives	13.837	—
Total		Participating associations: 5		5

Teams

Nasrin

APF

Locations of SAFF Club Women's Championship teams

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

Participants
Team	Qualifying method
East Bengal	2024–25 Indian Women's League champions
APF	2024 ANFA Women's League champions
Nasrin	2023–24 Bangladesh Women's Football League champions
Transport United	2024 Bhutan Women's National League third place
Karachi City	2024 National Women Football Championship winners

Venue

The tournament is scheduled to be played at Dasharath Rangasala, Kathmandu.^[10]^[11]^[12]

Kathmandu
Dasharath Rangasala
Capacity: 15,000
	Kathmandu

Schedule

Stage	Round	Dates
Group stage	Matchday 1	5 December
	Matchday 2	8 December
	Matchday 3	11 December
	Matchday 4	14 December
	Matchday 5	17 December
Final match		20 December

Format

The competition consists of the following:^[8]

A round robin with five teams in a centralised venue.
A final match between the top two teams based on round robin standings.

Rules

Each team may register up to four foreign players.
A maximum of two foreign players may be on the field at any time, with up to two additional foreign players allowed as substitutes.

Round robin

Tiebreakers

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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);
Drawing of lots.

Standings

Pos	Team	Qualification	APF	EAB	KAC	NAS	TRU
1	APF (H)	Advance to final			14 Dec		11 Dec
2	East Bengal	Advance to final	17 Dec		11 Dec
3	Karachi City					8 Dec	5 Dec
4	Nasrin		5 Dec	14 Dec
5	Transport United			8 Dec		17 Dec

First match(es) will be played: 5 December 2025. Source: SAFF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Matches

5 December 2025