Motto Strength in Unity Type Sports organization President Kazi Salahuddin | Formation 1997 Membership 7 member associations Parent organization AFC | |
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South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), founded in 1997, is an association of the football playing nations in South Asia and is part of the larger Asian Football Confederation. Its founding members are Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan joined the federation in 2000 and Afghanistan in 2005. In February 2015, captain Haroon Amiri announced that Afghanistan had officially left the SAFF for the new Central Asian Football Association.
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The current champion of SAFF is India which they won over Afghanistan 2-1 in SAFF championship 2015-16.
Former members
Afghanistan, who had joined the South Asian Football Federation(SAFF) in the 2005 expansion 2 phase, left the association in 2015 to become a founding member of Central Asian Football Association(CAFA).
Presidents
Because of health issues in 2016 Rodrigo Ranjith replaced Salahuddin as acting president for two months. Salahuddin was voted to resume presidency in March 2016.
Ranking
Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
SAFF Championship
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) organizes the SAFF Championship, also called the South Asian Football Federation Cup (previously South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup), a regional football competition of South Asian countries. It is held every two years. Previous names have included the South Asian Association of Regional Co-operation Gold Cup in 1993 and South Asian Gold Cup 95 in 1995.
Since the 2005 edition, there was no official third place match. Hence, there were no official third place and fourth place being awarded. Semi-finalists are listed in alphabetical order.