The 2023 SAFF Championship final was the final match of the 2023 SAFF Championship. It took place on 4 July 2023 at the Bangalore, Karnataka. It was announced that the matches during the tournament, including the final, would take place at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium. India defeated Kuwait on penalty-shootouts after the match ended in a 1–1 draw after extra time.
Venue On 19 March 2023, it was announced that the matches during the tournament, including the final, would take place at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Bangalore Capacity: 25,810
Route to the final Kuwait played their first match against Nepal and won it 3–1. In their second game of the group stage they defeated Pakistan 4–0. Kuwait's last outing was against hosts India with the match ending in a 1–1 draw. The opponent for Kuwait in semi-final was Bangladesh, whom they defeated by a narrow margin of 1–0 in the extra time.
The Hosts started their campaign against Pakistan with a resounding 4–0 win. Sunil Chhetri scored his fourth international hat-trick and Udanta Singh scored the fourth goal. In the next match they saw of Nepal by 2–0 and the final match of the group stage against Kuwait resulted in a 1–1 stalemate. In the semi-final India locked horns with Lebanon and won on penalty shootout after the game ended in a goal less draw.
Round OpponentResult Group stageOpponentResult1–3 Match 10–40–4 Match 20–21–1 Match 31–1Team321 082+6 7321071+67310225−33300309−90 Final standingsTeam321 082+67321071+67310225−33300309−90OpponentResult OpponentResult0–1 Semi-finals0–0
Match
Abdulrahman Kameel Hassan Al-Enezi Khalid El Ebrahim Hamad Al-Qallaf Abdullah Ammar Redha Abujabarah Mohammad Daham Sultan Al Enezi Shabaib Al-Khaldi Ahmed Al-Dhefiri Mobarak Al-Faneeni Substitutes: Hamad Al-Harbi Eid Al-Rashidi Mahdi Dashti Fawaz Ayedh Al-Otaibi Abdullah Ghanim Al-Fahad Abdulaziz Naji Mahran Manager: Rui Bento Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Anwar Ali Sandesh Jhingan Akash Mishra Nikhil Poojari Anirudh Thapa Ashique Kuruniyan Jeakson Singh Thounaojam Sunil Chhetri Sahal Abdul Samad Lallianzuala ChhangteSubstitutes: Mehtab Singh Mahesh Singh Naorem Rohit Kumar Udanta Singh Subhasish Bose Manager:Mahesh Gawli Assistant referees: Nani Ram Thapa Magar (Nepal) Ahmed Hassan (Maldives) Fourth official: Pema Tshewang (Bhutan) Match commissioner: Mindu Dorji (Bhutan) Referee assessor: Suresh Srinivasan (India)
Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Maximum of fifteen named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time Maximum of one concussion substitution
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