2023 SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament (Khobar)

2023 SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament
البطولة الودية الدولية للسيدات - السعودية 2023
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
City	Khobar
Dates	11–19 January
Teams	4 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Saudi Arabia (1st title)
Runners-up	Pakistan
Third place	Mauritius
Fourth place	Comoros
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	12 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Anlaouia Hadhirami Ali; (2 Goals)
Best player(s)	Maria Khan
Best goalkeeper	Sara Khalid
	2023 (Taif) → All statistics correct as of 19 January 2023.

The 2023 SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament was the first edition of the SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament, an invitational women's football tournament held in Saudi Arabia from 11 to 19 January 2023. It consisted of a single match round-robin tournament. It featured four teams, Namely Comoros, Mauritius, Pakistan and hosts Saudi Arabia.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Format

The four invited teams played a round-robin tournament. Points awarded in the group stage followed the formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. In the event two teams were tied in points, tie-breakers would be applied in the order of goal difference, goals scored, head-to-head result, and a fair play score based on the number of yellow and red cards.

Venue

The stadium chosen by SAFF to host the 2023 SAFF Women's International Friendly Tournament is located in Khobar a city in the Eastern Province.

Khobar
Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium
Capacity: 15,000

Khobar

Teams

The following four teams participated in the tournament:

Team	Confederation	Appearance	FIFA ranking (December 2022)
Comoros	CAF	1st	182
Mauritius	CAF	1st	187
Pakistan	AFC	1st	160
Saudi Arabia	AFC	1st	NR

Squads

Match officials

The following official were appointed by SAFF to officiate the tournament:

Referees

Shahenda Saad Ali ElMaghrabi
Anoud Alasmari
Edita Mirabidova

Assistant referees

Yara Abdelfattah
Heba Saadieh
Kristina Sereda

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
	Pakistan	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
	Mauritius	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
4	Comoros	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3

Source: SAFF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result; 5) fair play ranking.
(H) Hosts

Results

All times are local, SAST (UTC+3:00).

11 January 2023