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India has participated for the first time in FIFA U-17 World Cup as hosts in the 2017 edition of the tournament. This was the first time ever [2] that a team representing India would participate in the finals of a FIFA organized world tournament. India was placed in group A along with, United States, Ghana and Columbia. On 6 October 2017, India ...
The 2024 SAFF U-17 Championship was the ninth edition of the SAFF U-17 Championship, an international football competition for men's under-17 national teams organized by South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). Its played from 20–30 September 2024 in Thimphu, Bhutan. [1] [2]
The 2017 tournament which was hosted by India became the most attended in the history of the tournament, with the total attendance of the FIFA U-17 World Cup reaching 1,347,133. [ 3 ] Nigeria is the most successful nation in the tournament's history, with five titles and three runners up.
The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 17th FIFA U-17 World Cup, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-17 national teams. Organised by FIFA , the tournament took place in India from 6 to 28 October 2017, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 5 December 2013.
FIFA first organised the U-17 Women's World Cup in the year 2008 and has since organised it on every even years. From Asia, the top three teams from AFC U-16 Women's Championship get qualified for the world cup, but India failed to qualify any of AFC championships since 2007 edition to 2017, thus failed to qualify for the first six editions of the World Cup.
The BRICS U-17 Football Cup is a U-17 Football tournament played among teams of five BRICS countries - economic block formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The first historic edition was played in Goa , India in 2016 on the occasion of the 8th BRICS summit that was held in India . [ 1 ]
This edition will be the opening of the annual cycle adopted by FIFA for the U-17 World Cup and the first to be played in the 48-team format instead of the previous biennial 24-team tournaments. [2] As part of these changes, FIFA also decided to grant Qatar the hosting rights for the tournament for a five-year period from, 2025 to 2029. [3]
The draw of the final tournament was held on 23 January 2025 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams, with the teams seeded according to their final rankings across the previous three editions (2016, 2018, 2023), with the hosts Saudi Arabia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.