2024 CAFA U-17 Championship

CAFA U-17 Championship 2024
Чемпионат CAFA-2024; среди юношеских сборных (U-17)
Tournament details
Host country	Tajikistan
City	Dushanbe
Dates	17–24 August
Teams	6 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Afghanistan (1st title)
Runners-up	Uzbekistan
Third place	Tajikistan
Fourth place	Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	9
Goals scored	20 (2.22 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Salman Ghafarifouza; (3 goals)
Best player(s)	Hamid Amiri
Best goalkeeper	Hamid Amiri
Fair play award	Iran
	← 2023 TBD →

The 2024 CAFA U-17 Championship was the second edition of the CAFA U-17 Championship, the international youth football championship organized by Central Asian Football Association for the men's under-17 national teams of Central Asia. The tournament was held from August 17th to 24th in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.^[1] All six CAFA members participated in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2007 eligible to participate.

Host Tajikistan were the reigning champions, having claimed the title in last year's inaugural edition.^[2]

Participation

Participating teams

All six CAFA member associations entered teams for the final tournament.^[3] with Turkmenistan debuting in the competition.^[4]^[5]

Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Afghanistan	2nd	2023 (Third place)	Third place (2023)
Iran	2nd	2023 (Fourth place)	Fourth place (2023)
Kyrgyz Republic	2nd	2023 (Fifth place)	Fifth place (2023)
Tajikistan	2nd	2023 (Champions)	Champions (2023)
Turkmenistan	1st	Debut
Uzbekistan	2nd	2023 (Runners-up)	Runners-up (2023)

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2008 and on or before 31 December 2009 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Seeding

The 6 teams were drawn into two groups of three teams, with seeding based on their performance at the previous edition. Seeding was shown in parentheses except the team who previously did not participate, which were denoted by (–).

The host Tajikistan automatically seeded to Pot 1 and placed into the first position of Group A.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Tajikistan (1) (hosts) Uzbekistan (2)	Afghanistan (3) Iran (4)	Kyrgyz Republic (5) Turkmenistan (–)

Draw

The draw took place on 15 August 2024.^[6]

The draw resulted in the following groups:^[7]

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Tajikistan
A2	Afghanistan
A3	Kyrgyz Republic

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Uzbekistan
B2	Iran
B3	Turkmenistan

Group stage

The match schedule was released on August 15th, after the draw was conducted.^[8]

All times are local TJT (UTC+5).

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

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 were 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.