SAFF Championship 2023

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The 2023 SAFF Championship, the 14th edition of the competition, will take place from 21 June to 04 July 2023 in India. A total of eight teams--Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan--will participate in the tournament. Kuwait and Lebanon are the guest participants. India are the defending champions, having defeated Nepal in the final of the previous edition.

Format

The eight teams participating in the 2023 SAFF Championship have been divided into two groups of four. Every team will play against all of its group opponents in a round-robin format. At the end of all games, the group winner, along with the runner up, will qualify for the knockouts.

In the knockout stages, the winner of the first group, will face the runner up from the other group, and vice versa. 

Group A: India, Nepal, Kuwait, Pakistan

Group B: Lebanon, Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh

Venue

All the games will be played at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, India.

Telecast

Matches to be telecast live either on Sports 18 or DD Sports (or both) subject to final call by SAFF, live streaming: FanCode

Credits: khelnow.com

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Ronny

A bit unfair to Pakistan as they land in Bengaluru at 8 am today and then play the evening game without any rest after 14 hours of travel. They requested to push back the game by 2 hours but that also got rejected

G_K

Please post Livestream links here if you find any. Fancode is not available outside India I believe.

Ronny

14 members of the Pakistan team missed their flight from Mumbai due to paperwork at the airport and will land in Bengaluru at 1pm

Nagendra

it would be harsh for Pakistan team. Atleast couple of hours delay in start would help them. 

Nagendra

India v Kuwait H2H at Senior Level

17 Dec 1978 (Asian Games) : 1-6 (Lost)

05 Nov 2004 (International Friendly) : 3-2 (Won)

14 Nov 2010 (International Friendly) : 1-9 (Lost)

Last time, during Asian cup preparation, we lost badly against Kuwait. Defensively, we are better organized now. Need to see if we can win this game or not. Kuwait is a strong team and their ranking - 143 is mainly due to FIFA suspension. They have won last 4 games (Official friendlies: Philippines, Tajikistan) & (Unofficial friendlies: Zambia, Sudan)

Players to look-out for : Shabaib Al Khaldi (Forward) & Fahad Al Hajeri (Defender)

H2H games Credit : 11v11

Boalha

Bashundhara Toiletries is the title sponsor of this SAFF Championship. I wonder when that will stop sounding funny.

Nagendra

Kuwait won the first match : Kuwait 3-1 Nepal

Ronny

Surprised they conceded against Nepal and not againsy Zambia etx

deepu

Any link?