South Asian Football Federation

South Asian Football Federation

160 px SAFF Logo
250px SAFF members
Motto	Strength in Unity
Formation	1997
Type	Sports organization
Membership	7 member associations
President	Kazi Salahuddin
Parent organization	AFC
Website	southasiafootball.com

South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), founded in 1997, is an association of the football playing nations in South Asia and is part of the larger Asian Football Confederation. Its founding members are Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan joined the federation in 2000 and Afghanistan in 2005. In February 2015, captain Haroon Amiri announced that Afghanistan had officially left the SAFF for the new Central Asian Football Association.

The current champion of SAFF is India after they defeated Afghanistan 2-1 in the final of the 2015 SAFF Championship.

Member associations

Country	Year	Association	Member	League
Bangladesh	1997	Bangladesh Football Federation	Founding Member	Bangladesh Premier League
India	1997	All India Football Federation	Founding Member	I-League
Maldives	1997	Football Association of Maldives	Founding Member	Dhivehi Premier League
Nepal	1997	All Nepal Football Association	Founding Member	Nepal National League
Pakistan	1997	Pakistan Football Federation	Founding Member	Pakistan Premier League
Sri Lanka	1997	Football Federation of Sri Lanka	Founding Member	Sri Lanka Football Premier League
Bhutan	2000	Bhutan Football Federation	Expansion 1	Bhutan National League

Former members

Country	Year	Association
Afghanistan	2005–2015	Afghanistan Football Federation

Afghanistan, who had joined the South Asian Football Federation(SAFF) in the 2005 expansion 2 phase, left the association in 2015 to become a founding member of Central Asian Football Federation(CAFF).

Presidents

President	Years
Ganesh Thapa	1999 - October 2009
Kazi Salahuddin	October 2009 - present

Ranking

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.

Men's National Teams

AFC	FIFA	Country	Points	+/−
30	160	Maldives	150	6
31	166	India	132	6
38	182	Bangladesh	78	2
40	184	Pakistan	76	1
42	188	Bhutan	64	8
43	192	Nepal	49	2
44	194	Sri Lanka	45	3

Last updated 3 December 2015.

Women's National Teams

AFC	FIFA	Country	Points	+/−
11	57	India	1425	1
24	114	Nepal	1115	5
25	123	Bangladesh	987	5
26	124	Sri Lanka	968	5
28	129	Maldives	938	4
29	130	Pakistan	926	5
31	137	Bhutan	778	7

Last updated 25 December 2015.

Leading Men's Team:

SAFF Championship

South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) organizes the SAFF Championship, also called the South Asian Football Federation Cup (previously South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup), a regional football competition of South Asian countries. It is held every two years. Previous names have included the South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation Gold Cup in 1993 and South Asian Gold Cup 95 in 1995.

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
		Champion	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1993 Details	Pakistan	India	[note 1]	Sri Lanka	Nepal	[note 1]	Pakistan
1995 Details	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	1 – 0	India	Bangladesh	[note 2]	Nepal
1997 Details	Nepal	India	5 – 1	Maldives	Pakistan	1 – 0	Sri Lanka
1999 Details	India	India	2 – 0	Bangladesh	Maldives	2 – 0	Nepal
2003 Details	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	1 – 1 (5 – 3 pen.)	Maldives	India	2 – 1	Pakistan

Since the 2005 edition, there was no official third place match. Hence, there were no official third place and fourth place being awarded. Semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists [2]
		Champion	Score	Runner-up
2005 Details	Pakistan	India	2 – 0	Bangladesh	Maldives and Pakistan
2008 Details	Maldives and Sri Lanka	Maldives	1 – 0	India	Bhutan and Sri Lanka
2009 Details	Bangladesh	India	0 – 0 (3 – 1 pen.)	Maldives	Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
2011 Details	India	India	4 – 0	Afghanistan	Maldives and Nepal
2013 Details	Nepal	Afghanistan	2 – 0	India	Maldives and Nepal
2015 Details	India	' India	2 – 1	Afghanistan	Maldives and Sri Lanka

¹Final tournaments in league table format.

²No third place match has been played since 2005; losing semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

SAFF U-19 Championship

The Under 19 SAFF Championship first started in 2015.

Year	Host		Final				Losing semi-finalists [2]
			Champion	Score	Runner-up
2015 Details	Nepal		Nepal	1 – 1 (5 – 4 pen.)	India		Afghanistan and Bangladesh

SAFF U-16 Championship

South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) also organizes the SAFF U-16 Championship an international youth football competition contested by the national teams of the members of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
2011 Details	Nepal		Pakistan	2 – 1	India		Nepal	2 – 1	Bangladesh
2013 Details	Nepal		India	1 – 0	Nepal		Bangladesh	1 – 0	Afghanistan

Since the 2015 edition, there was no official third place match. Hence, there were no official third place and fourth place being awarded. Semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

Year	Host		Final				Losing semi-finalists [2]
			Champion	Score	Runner-up
2015 Details	Bangladesh		Bangladesh	1 – 1 (4 – 2 pen.)	India		Afghanistan and Nepal

SAFF Women's Championship

The federation also organizes the SAFF Women's Championship an international women's football competition contested by the national teams of the members of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF).

Year	Host	Final			Losing semi-finalists
		Champion	Score	Runner-up
2010 Details	Bangladesh	India	1 – 0	Nepal	Bangladesh, Pakistan
2012 Details	Sri Lanka	India	3 – 1	Nepal	Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,
2014 Details	Pakistan	India	6 – 0	Nepal	Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,

See also

• ASEAN Football Federation (AFF)
• Central Asian Football Federation (CAFF)
• East Asian Football Federation (EAFF)
• West Asian Football Federation (WAFF)

References

External links

• RSSSF page on the South Asian Federation Cup
• South Asia Football - Complete SAFF website