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2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship

The 2025 WAFF U-20 Girls Championship () was the 5th edition of the WAFF Youth Girls Championship, the international women's football youth championship of Western Asia organized by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's under-20 national teams. It was held in Aqaba, Jordan, from 6 to 12 April 2025. and it was the first edition of the tournament to be restricted to the under-20 level, following four previous editions held at the under-18 level.

Host Jordan entered the tournament as the defending champions, having secured their second title just four months earlier. However, they were unable to retain the title, falling to Palestine in the final. The victory marked Palestine's first-ever title in WAFF history—across both men's and women's competitions—and their first in any women's tournament.

Participation

Participating teams

Four out of the 12 WAFF member associations registered teams for the competition, three of which had participated in the 2024 edition. Kuwait returned to the tournament for the first time since their debut in 2019.

Did not enter
  • and – the two Gulf nations did not enter the tournament, having scheduled a two-match friendly series against each other during the same period. Bahrain last participated in 2019, while Saudi Arabia's last appearance was in the previous edition (2024).
  • opted to participate in the 2025 UEFA Women's U-18 Friendship Cup in Riva, Turkey, during the same period, seeking stronger preparatory matches. Lebanon last participated in 2024.

Other WAFF members and chose not to participate. Meanwhile, Oman, Qatar, and Yemen do not field women's teams at this category or at all.

Draw

The tournament draw to determine the positions of the participating teams was held on 13 March 2025 at 12:00 AST () and streamed live on the federation's YouTube channel.

The draw resulted in the following positions:

Squads

Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

All times are local, AST ().



Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers

References

External links