The 2025 WAFF U-17 Girls Championship (Arabic: بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للناشئات) was the fifth edition of the WAFF U-17 Girls Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-17 national teams of West Asia. It was hosted in Saudi Arabia from 8 to 16 February 2025.[1][2]

Defending champions Syria, who defeated the previous edition's host Jordan 1–0 in the final,[3] finished runners-up. Lebanon won the tournament, defeating Syria 4–0 in the final and winning their third title.

Participation

Participating teams

Initially, eight out of 12 member associations entered teams for the tournament. However, Iraq and Kuwait later withdrew, bringing the total down to six teams.[4][5][6] Of the six participants, Saudi Arabia is making its debut in the tournament.[7]

Team App Last Best placement in the tournament
 Bahrain 3rd Jan 2023 Fourth Place (2018, Jan 2023)
 Jordan 5th Nov 2023 Champions (2018)
 Lebanon 5th Nov 2023 Champions (2019, Jan 2023)
 Palestine 4th Jan 2023 Third Place (2018, Jan 2023)
 Saudi Arabia 1st — Debut
 Syria 4th Nov 2023 Champions (Nov 2023)
Did not enter

Draw

The official draw was held on 6 January 2025 at the WAFF Headquarters in Amman at 12:00 (UTC+3). The host team, Saudi Arabia, was automatically seeded and placed in position A1, while the title holders, Syria, were also automatically seeded and assigned to position B1.[8][9]

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos Team
A1  Saudi Arabia
A2  Bahrain
A3  Jordan
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Syria
B2  Palestine
B3  Lebanon

Squads

Main article: 2025 WAFF U-17 Girls Championship squads

Players born between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team must register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers

Venue

The tourmanet will be played in Khobar a coastal city in the Eastern Province, with the following stadium used for all matches:[10]

Khobar
Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium
Capacity: 20,000

Group stage

All times are local, SAST (UTC+3).

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and should they tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were 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. Should more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 meet 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.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Jordan 2 2 0 0 8 0 +8 6 Knockout stage
2  Bahrain 2 1 0 1 1 5 −4 3
3  Saudi Arabia (H) 2 0 0 2 0 4 −4 0
Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Jordan 3–0 Saudi Arabia
 Report
Referee: Khuloud Al-Zaabi (United Arab Emirates)
Bahrain 0–5 Jordan
Report
Referee: Mohammed Barahma (Palestine)
Saudi Arabia 0–1 Bahrain
Report Hasan 47'

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Lebanon 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6 Knockout stage
2  Syria 2 1 0 1 6 2 +4 3
3  Palestine 2 0 0 2 0 10 −10 0
Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Lebanon 2–0 Syria
 Report
Referee: Haneen Murad (Jordan)
Palestine 0–4 Lebanon
Report
Referee: Alesar Baddour (Syria)
Syria 6–0 Palestine
 Report
Referee: Maryam Ali (Bahrain)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
14 February - Khobar
 
 
 Lebanon3
 
16 February - Khobar
 
 Bahrain0
 
 Lebanon4
 
14 February - Khobar
 
 Syria0
 
 Jordan0 (6)
 
 
 Syria (p)0 (7)
 
Third place
 
 
16 February - Khobar
 
 
 Bahrain0
 
 
 Jordan2

Semi-finals

Lebanon 3–0 Bahrain
 Report
Referee: Reem Al-Dossary (Saudi Arabia)
Jordan 0–0 Syria
Report
Penalties
 6–7
Referee: Jamal Huseen (Kuwait)

Third place play-off

Bahrain 0–2 Jordan
Report

Final

Lebanon 4–0 Syria
 Report

Goalscorers

There were 30 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: WAFF

References

  1. ^ "Saudi Arabia will host the 5th West Asian U-17 Girls Championship 2025". saff.com.sa (in Arabic). Saudi Arabian Football Federation. 5 January 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  2. ^ Al-Nemer, Abdulrahman (5 January 2025). "Saudi Arabia will host the West Asian U-17 Girls Championship". arriyadiyah.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  3. ^ "The Syria U-17 girls' national team participates in its first international tournament". ronahi.net (in Arabic). 6 February 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  4. ^ "The Women's Committee reviews the changes to the continental tournaments and discusses the agenda for regional competitions". the-waff.com (in Arabic). 5 October 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  5. ^ Al-Khaldi, Bashayer (5 January 2025). "Six teams are participating in the "West Asian U-15 Girls Championship" in Dammam". aawsat.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Six teams are hosted by Saudi Arabia in the 5th U-17 Girls Championship". the-waff.com (in Arabic). 5 January 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  7. ^ Al-Jidani, Riyan (7 February 2025). "Saudi U-17 girls' coach: We look forward to gaining experience in West Asia". kooora.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  8. ^ "The draw for the 5th U-17 Girls Championship". the-waff.com (in Arabic). West Asian Football Federation. 6 January 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  9. ^ "The "West Asia" draw places our U-17 women's team in the same group as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain". petra.gov.jo (in Arabic). 6 January 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  10. ^ "Khobar will host the 5th West Asian U-15 Girls Championship". aljeel.mos.gov.sa (in Arabic). January 2025. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
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