2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship

2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship
بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الثالثة للناشئات; الأردن ٢٠٢٣
Tournament details
Host country	Jordan
City	Aqaba
Dates	4–10 January
Teams	4 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Lebanon (2nd title)
Runners-up	Jordan
Third place	Palestine
Fourth place	Bahrain
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	17 (2.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cecile Iskandar (4 goals)
Best player(s)	Arwa Batayneh
Best goalkeeper	Marcelle Skaiki
	← 2019 2023 →

The 2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship (Arabic: بطولة اتحاد غرب آسيا الثالثة للناشئات ٢٠٢٣) 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.^[1]

Lebanon were the defending champions, having won the previous edition in 2019 and successfully retained their title by defeating hosts Jordan in the final.^[2]^[3]

Participation

Participating teams

Four (out of 12) teams entered the Championship.^[1] Bahrain returned to the tournament after missing the 2019 edition, while Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine maintained their streak of appearing in every edition.^[4]

Team	App	Last	Best placement in the tournament
Bahrain	2nd	2018	Fourth Place (2018)
Jordan	3rd	2019	Champions (2018)
Lebanon	3rd	2019	Champions (2019)
Palestine	3rd	2019	Third Place (2018)

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.^[5]

The draw resulted in the following order:

Pos	Team
A1	Jordan
A2	Lebanon
A3	Bahrain
A4	Palestine

Venues

On 14 December 2022, WAFF confirmed that Al-Aqaba Stadium would host the tournament matches.^[6]

Aqaba	Aqaba
	Al-Aqaba Stadium
	Capacity: 3,800

Match officials

Referees

Assistant referees

Amal Jama Badhafari
Islam Al-Abadi

Group stage

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).^[7]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Lebanon	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7	Advance to final
2	Jordan (H)	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5	Advance to final
3	Palestine	3	1	1	1	2	5	−3	4	Advance to third place play-off
4	Bahrain	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0	Advance to third place play-off

Source: WAFF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

4 January 2023

16:00

Lebanon	2–0	Bahrain
Iskandar 31', 90+5'	Report Report (WAFF)

Al-Aqaba Stadium, Aqaba

Referee: Haneen Murad (Jordan)

4 January 2023