2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship

2025 WAFF U-20
Girls Championship
بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للشابات
الأردن ۲۰۲٥
Tournament details
Host countryJordan
CityAqaba
Dates6–12 April
Teams4 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Palestine (1st title)
Runners-up Jordan
Third place Syria
Fourth place Kuwait
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Goals scored33 (4.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)Syria Aya Mohammed[1]
(7 goals)
Best player(s)Jordan Kinda Al-Titi
Best goalkeeperPalestine Mirave Marouf
← 2024
TBD →

The 2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship (Arabic: بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الخامسة للشابات) was the 5th edition of the WAFF Youth Girls Championship, the international women's football youth championship of Western Asia organized by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-20 national teams. It was held in Aqaba, Jordan, from 6 to 12 April 2025.[2] and it was the first edition of the tournament to be restricted to the under-20 level, following four previous editions held at the under-18 level.[3]

Host Jordan entered the tournament as the defending champions, having secured their second title just four months earlier.[4] However, they were unable to retain the title, falling to Palestine in the final.[5] The victory marked Palestine's first-ever title in WAFF history—across both men's and women's competitions—and their first in any women's tournament.[6][7]

Participation

Participating teams

Four out of the 12 WAFF member associations registered teams for the competition, three of which had participated in the 2024 edition. Kuwait returned to the tournament for the first time since their debut in 2019.[8]

Country App. Previous best performance
 Jordan 5th Champions (2018, 2024)
 Kuwait 2nd Sixth place (2019)
 Palestine 4th Third place (2018, 2024)
 Syria 3rd Runners-up (2022)
Did not enter
  •  Bahrain and  Saudi Arabia – the two Gulf nations did not enter the tournament, having scheduled a two-match friendly series against each other during the same period.[9] Bahrain last participated in 2019, while Saudi Arabia's last appearance was in the previous edition (2024).
  •  Lebanon opted to participate in the 2025 UEFA Women's U-18 Friendship Cup in Riva, Turkey, during the same period, seeking stronger preparatory matches.[10] Lebanon last participated in 2024.

Other WAFF members  Iraq and  United Arab Emirates chose not to participate. Meanwhile, Oman, Qatar, and Yemen do not field women's teams at this category or at all.

Draw

The tournament draw to determine the positions of the participating teams was held on 13 March 2025 at 12:00 AST (UTC+3) and streamed live on the federation's YouTube channel.[11]

The draw resulted in the following positions:[12]

Pos Team
A1  Jordan
A2  Kuwait
A3  Palestine
A4  Syria

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Jordan 3 3 0 0 6 0 +6 9 Final
2  Palestine 3 1 1 1 10 4 +6 4
3  Syria 3 1 1 1 7 3 +4 4 Third place play-off
4  Kuwait 3 0 0 3 0 16 −16 0
Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) head-to-head matches; 3) Goal difference; 4) Number of goals scored.
Kuwait 0–9 Palestine
Report
  • Abdeen 13', 52'
  • N. Phillips 17', 67'
  • Qassis 42', 62', 65'
  • Abu Asfar 48'
  • Asad 53'
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Ammar Abo Alo (Syria)
Jordan 2–0 Syria
Tamimi 55', 82' Report
Report (JFA)
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Syria 6–0 Kuwait
  • Mohammad 9', 70', 90+4'
  • Dayoub 37'
  • Baddour 43'
  • Ebrahim 60'
 Report
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Yasmin Nairoukh (Palestine)
Palestine 0–3 Jordan
Report
Report (JFA)
  • Shqair 59'
  • Al-Khawaja 72'
  • Tamimi 79'
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Haneen Marei (Lebanon)
Palestine 1–1 Syria
N. Phillips 8' Report Al-Jany 83'
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Esraa Al-Mbaiden (Jordan)
Jordan 1–0 Kuwait
Tamimi 55' Report
Report (JFA)
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Ammar Abo Alo (Syria)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

 
Final
 
  
 
12 April - Aqaba
 
 
 Jordan1 (2)
 
 
 Palestine (p)1 (4)
 
 
 
 
 
Third place play-off
 
 
12 April - Aqaba
 
 
 Syria7
 
 
 Kuwait1
 

Third place play-off

Syria 7–1 Kuwait
  • Al-Jany 2', 39'
  • Mohammad 11', 18', 82', 85'
  • Harb 69'
 Report Behbehani 13'
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba
Referee: Esraa Al-Mbaiden (Jordan)

Final

Jordan 1–1 Palestine
Abbaas 77' Report Ghneim 50'
Penalties
  • Abbaas soccer ball with red X
  • Al-Saheli soccer ball with red X
  • Silawi soccer ball with check mark
  • Shqair soccer ball with check mark
 2–4
  • soccer ball with check mark Sansur
  • soccer ball with red X Abdeen
  • soccer ball with check mark Asad
  • soccer ball with check mark N. Phillips
  • soccer ball with check mark Qassis
Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba

Goalscorers

There were 33 goals scored in 8 matches, for an average of 4.12 goals per match.

7 goals

  • Syria Aya Mohammad

4 goals

  • Jordan Ida Tamimi

3 goals

2 goals

  • Palestine Dina Abdeen

1 goal

  • Jordan Marah Abbaas
  • Jordan Deanna Al-Khawaja
  • Jordan Khetam Shqair
  • Kuwait Meisa Behbehani
  • Palestine Narin Abu Asfar
  • Palestine Dalia Asad
  • Palestine Selina Ghneim
  • Syria Nivin Baddour
  • Syria Hayat Dayoub
  • Syria Lilas Ebrahim
  • Syria Tala Harb

Source: WAFF

References

  1. ^ Mohammad, Juan (13 April 2025). "Wearing her Kurdish scarf, star Aya Mohammed received the Top Scorer Award at the WAFF U-20 Women's Championship in Jordan". ronahi.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  2. ^ "Aqaba to host the WAFF U-20 Girls Championship". petra.gov.jo (in Arabic). Petra. 11 March 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  3. ^ "Highly anticipated kickoff for the WAFF Women's U-20 Championship in Aqaba, as our national team faces Jordan in their opening match today". riadi.alwehda.gov.sy (in Arabic). 6 April 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  4. ^ al-Abadi, Luay (6 April 2025). "The Women's U20 Football Team Begins Their Title Defense Journey Today". alrai.com (in Arabic). Amman. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  5. ^ "U-20 Women's Team in West Asia: A Missed Title and a Chance for Realistic Evaluation". alghad.com (in Arabic). 13 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Palestine claim their first title in the WAFF U-20 Girls Championship". the-waff.com (in Arabic). West Asian Football Federation. 12 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Palestine crowned West Asian Women's U-20 Champions, defeating Jordan in the final". kooora.com (in Arabic). 12 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  8. ^ "The U-20 women's team participates in the WAFF Championship". aljarida.com (in Arabic). 16 March 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  9. ^ Al-Khaldi, Bashayer (3 April 2025). "Saudi U-20 Women's Team Kicks Off Preparatory Camp for Asian Cup Qualifiers". aawsat.com (in Arabic). Dammam. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  10. ^ "The U-20 Women's National Team prepares for the Asian qualifiers". nidaalwatan.com (in Arabic). 11 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  11. ^ "The Draw for the Fifth Youth Girls Championship… Thursday". the-waff.com. 11 March 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Draw for the Fifth WAFF Women's U-20 Championship". almamlakatv.com (in Arabic). al-Mamlaka. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.