The defending champions of the SAFF Women Football Championship Bangladesh may be the hosts of the next edition of the tournament in 2024.
Meanwhile, three countries are interested to be the hosts of the SAFF Women Football Championship 2024 when Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan submitted their applications.
The SAFF competition committee brought the issue in their meeting along with the SAFF Club Cup tournament last week.
However, the last edition of the biggest football tournament for women in the SAFF region was held in Nepal and the next edition is scheduled to be held in October 2024 but the hosts yet to be finalized.
SAFF general secretary Anwarul Haque Helal informed that the proposals (application of three countries) have already been provided to the Marketing Agents ‘Sports Five for their opinions.
“Three countries submitted their applications and we discussed all about that but before to take the decisions we sent the bidding letters provided to Marketing Agents for their recommendation. They will select the country where they would have the promotional advantages, and we will approved their proposal,” said Helal, a long server GS of the SAFF.
“As none of the three bidders yet to withdraw their application or discussed about withdrawal, however, we are looking forward to the opinion of our Marketing Agents,” Helal added.
As Nepal organized the previous edition in 2022 and in consideration of marketing and publicity, Bhutan is very small populations’ country and in this respects they may be not considered. So, Bangladesh, the defending champions of the SAFF would have the first priority to have the right to host the tournament.
Meanwhile, the much waited SAFF Club Cup Football tournament likely to be held in July 2024
The competition committee of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) have announced a tentative schedule of the SAFF Club Cup football tournament for July next year.
The executive committee of SAFF has taken the decision to organise the first edition of the club cup competition in their last meeting.
A total of eight top teams from each country of the SAFF region will take part in the competition. After a long time the executive committee took the decision to organize the most coveted SAFF Club Cup Championship from the last week of July 2024.
The format and bylaws have already been finalized of the competition at the meeting of the SAFF Competition Committee on Tuesday.
General Secretary of SAFF, Anwarul haque Helal said, “We have already approved the format and bylaws of the competition in a meeting. There will be eight teams from seven countries, while two teams will play from India because they are higher in the FIFA ranking in this area.”
“The match will be held home and away basis, the matches will take place in Round Robin League format, Quarters, semifinals and final. There will be 13 matches so far in the tournament,” said the General Secretary.
The probable date of the tournament kicks off on July 30 when two matches will be held in the first day.
