{"id":103792,"date":"2026-03-11T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=103792"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:15:18","slug":"saff-u20-championship-2026-schedule-announced-as-pakistan-set-to-face-bangladesh-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/saff-u20-championship-2026-schedule-announced-as-pakistan-set-to-face-bangladesh-and-india\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFF U20 Championship 2026 Schedule Announced as Pakistan Set to Face Bangladesh and India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"863\">SAFF U20 Championship 2026 Schedule has been officially announced, with the regional football tournament set to take place in the Maldives. The competition will run from <strong data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"796\">23 March to 3 April 2026<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"832\">National Stadium in Mal\u00e9<\/strong>, the capital city of Maldives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"1025\">The event will feature young football teams from South Asia. Matches will be played in a <strong data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"974\">two-group format<\/strong>, with teams competing to reach the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"9lrnm3\" data-start=\"1027\" data-end=\"1048\">Tournament Groups<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1132\">In the SAFF U20 Championship 2026 Schedule, the teams are divided into two groups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1134\" data-end=\"1224\"><strong data-start=\"1134\" data-end=\"1146\">Group A:<\/strong> Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka<br data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1184\" \/><strong data-start=\"1184\" data-end=\"1196\">Group B:<\/strong> Bangladesh, India, Pakistan<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1360\">Pakistan is placed in <strong data-start=\"1248\" data-end=\"1259\">Group B<\/strong> with Bangladesh and traditional rivals India. This group is expected to produce competitive matches.<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"1ael26q\" data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1384\">Pakistan\u2019s Matches<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1510\">According to the SAFF U20 Championship 2026 Schedule, Pakistan will begin its campaign against <strong data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1507\">Bangladesh on 24 March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1616\">The team will then face <strong data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1557\">India on 26 March<\/strong> in one of the most anticipated matches of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1713\">Both games are important for Pakistan as the team aims to secure a place in the knockout round.<\/p>\n<h3 data-section-id=\"415jd8\" data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1741\">Knockout Stage Details<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1841\">After the group matches, the <strong data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1805\">top two teams from each group<\/strong> will qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1843\" data-end=\"1947\">The semi-finals are scheduled for <strong data-start=\"1877\" data-end=\"1893\">1 April 2026<\/strong>, while the <strong data-start=\"1905\" data-end=\"1946\">final match will be played on 3 April<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"2075\">Football fans across South Asia are expected to follow the tournament closely as young players compete for the regional title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAFF U20 Championship 2026 Schedule has been officially announced, with the regional football tournament set to take place in the Maldives. The competition will run from 23 March to 3 April 2026 at the National Stadium in Mal\u00e9, the capital city of Maldives. The event will feature young football teams from South Asia. Matches will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":103795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[37630,37627,37629,37628,37626,37631],"class_list":["post-103792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-maldives-football-tournament","tag-pakistan-u20-football-team","tag-pakistan-vs-india-u20","tag-saff-u20-championship-2026-fixtures","tag-saff-u20-championship-2026-schedule","tag-south-asian-football-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103796,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103792\/revisions\/103796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}