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2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship

The 2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship () was the third edition of the WAFF U-16 Girls Championship (including previous editions of the WAFF U-15 Girls Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-16 national teams of West Asia. It was held in Aqaba, Jordan from 4 to 10 January 2023. A total of four teams competed in the tournament.

Lebanon were the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2019 and successfully retained their title by defeating hosts Jordan in the final.

Participation

Participating teams

Four (out of 12) teams entered the Championship. Bahrain returned to the tournament after missing the 2019 edition, while Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine maintained their streak of appearing in every edition.

Did not enter

Draw

The official draw took place on 20 December 2022, 11:00 local time AST (UTC+3) at the WAFF Headquarters in Amman, Jordan.

The draw resulted in the following order:

Venues

On 14 December 2022, WAFF confirmed that Al-Aqaba Stadium would host the tournament matches.

Match officials

Referees
Assistant referees
  • Amal Jama Badhafari
  • Islam Al-Abadi

Group stage

All times are local, AST ().



Knockout stage

Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers

References