2025 SAFF Women's Club Championship

2025 SAFF Women's Club Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Nepal
City	Kathmandu
Dates	5 – 20 December
Teams	5 (from 5 associations)
Venue	1
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	8 (2 per match)
	2027 → All statistics correct as of 8 December 2025.

Last updated December 09, 2025

The 2025 SAFF Women's Club Championship, known as the Vatsalya SAFF Women's Club Championship Nepal 2025 due to sponsorship reasons, is the inaugural edition of the SAFF Women's Club 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 competing in Kathmandu from 5 to 20 December 2025.^[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 Women's Club 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 Women's Club 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 runners-up
Karachi City	2024 National Women Football Championship winners

Venue

The tournament being 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

Match officials

The following officials were chosen for the competition by SAFF tournament committee.

Referees

Ranjita Devi Tekcham
Keomany Phengmeuagkhoun
Zin Mar Oo
Anjana Rai
Yapa A Pabasara Minisarani

Assistant Referees

Salma Akter Moni
Tshiring Choden
Atena Lashani
Reihaneh Shirazi
Phutsavan Chanthavong
Jana Haydar
Merina Dhimal
HM Malika Madushani

Match Commissioners

Mindu Dorji
Haobam Khamba Singh

Referee Accessors

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	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	APF	EAB	KAC	TRU	NAS
1	APF (H)	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4	3	Advance to final			14 Dec	11 Dec
2	East Bengal	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4	3	Advance to final	17 Dec		11 Dec
3	Karachi City	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2					0–0	0–0
4	Transport United	2	0	1	1	0	4	−4	1			0–4			17 Dec
5	Nasrin	2	0	1	1	0	4	−4	1		0–4	14 Dec

Updated to match(es) played on 8 December 2025. Source: Sofascore
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Matches

5 December 2025

14:00

Match 1

Karachi City	0–0	Transport United
	Report

Dasharath Rangasala , Kathmandu

Referee: Anjana Rai (Nepal)
Player of the Match: Zeeyana Jivraj (Karachi City)

5 December 2025

18:00

Match 2

Nasrin	0–4	APF
	Report	Ghising 38', 80' Deuba 70', 90+2'

Dasharath Rangasala , Kathmandu

Referee: Keomany Phengmeuagkhoun (Laos)
Player of the Match: Rashmi Kumari Ghising (APF)

8 December 2025