Hosts India have been drawn alongside Nepal and Sri Lanka in Group B of the SAFF U19 Championship 2025 within the draw performed in Kathmandu on Tuesday. The Golden Jubilee Stadium in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh, will host the third version of the regional U19 males’s match from May 9 to 18, 2025. The venue had additionally hosted the Santosh Trophy last spherical final 12 months. Maldives, Bhutan and Bangladesh have been drawn in Group A. For the draw, the groups have been seeded in three pots based mostly on the newest FIFA males’s rankings as of December 2024. The prime two groups from every group will qualify for the semi-finals that can be performed on May 16. The last will happen on May 18.
India are the defending champions, having overwhelmed Pakistan 3-0 within the last of the 2023 version held in Kathmandu.
In 2024, the match was held for the U20s, the place India misplaced to Bangladesh on penalties within the semi-finals.
This would be the fourth time India will host an age-group SAFF competitors after U20 males’s (Bhubaneswar 2022), U18 ladies’s (Jamshedpur 2022) and U15 males’s (Kalyani 2019).
India’s fixtures: May 9: Sri Lanka vs India May 13: India vs Nepal May 16: Semi-finals May 18: Final.Â
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