2025 WAFF Women's Championship

2025 WAFF Women's Championship
بطولة غرب آسيا للسيدات 2025
Tournament details
Host countrySaudi Arabia
CityJeddah
Dates24 November – 2 December
Teams6 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Jordan (7th title)
Runners-up Palestine
Third place Iraq
Fourth place Saudi Arabia
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored33 (3.3 per match)
Top scorer(s)Saudi Arabia Al-Bandari Abdullah
(3 goals)
Best playerJordan Enas Al-Jamaeen
Best goalkeeperJordan Rawned Kassap
← 2024

The 2025 WAFF Women's Championship was the ninth edition of the WAFF Women's Championship, the international football tournament organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the women's national teams of West Asia. The tournament will be hosted by Saudi Arabia for the second time, after they had hosted the previous edition in 2024, from 24 November to 2 December.

Jordan were four-time defending champions, having won the previous four editions (2014, 2019, 2022, and 2024).

Teams

Participating teams

On 16 October 2025, the WAFF announced that six countries will participate in the 2025 edition.[1]

Country Appearance Previous best performance FIFA ranking
August 2025
 Jordan 9th Champions (2005, 2007, 2014, 2019, 2022, 2024) 76
 United Arab Emirates 4th Champions (2010, 2011) 117
 Lebanon 6th Runners-up (2022)[2] 125
 Palestine 8th Runners-up (2014) 129
 Saudi Arabia 2nd Group stage (2024) 164
 Iraq 3rd Group stage (2011, 2024) 166
Did not enter

Draw

The final draw took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 16 October 2025.[1] As the host nation, Saudi Arabia were seeded at the top of Group A, while defending champions Jordan were placed at the top of Group B. The draw subsequently assigned the United Arab Emirates and Iraq to Group A, and Lebanon and Palestine to Group B.[1]

Squads

Each team had to register a squad of 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.

Venues

On 19 October 2025, the WAFF announced Jeddah as the designated host city, with one chosen venue: the Hall Stadium of the King Abdullah Sports City.[3]

Jeddah
Hall Stadium – King Abdullah Sports City
Capacity: 10,000

Group stage

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

Tiebreakers

Teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria will be applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  8. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Saudi Arabia (H) 2 2 0 0 7 1 +6 6 Advance to knockout phase
2  Iraq 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3
3  United Arab Emirates 2 0 0 2 0 8 −8 0
Source: WAFF
(H) Hosts
Iraq 1–2 Saudi Arabia
  • Al-Jawahiri 90+7'
 Report
Referee: Esraa Al-Mbaiden (Jordan)
United Arab Emirates 0–3 Iraq
Report
Referee: Yasmin Nairoukh (Palestine)
Saudi Arabia 5–0 United Arab Emirates
 Report
Referee: Mohammed Al-Manii (Oman)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Jordan 2 2 0 0 8 0 +8 6 Advance to knockout phase
2  Palestine 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3
3  Lebanon 2 0 0 2 0 8 −8 0
Source: GSA
Palestine 0–3 Jordan
Report
Report (WAFF)
Lebanon 0–3 Palestine
Report
Referee: Alesar Baddour (Syria)
Jordan 5–0 Lebanon
 Report
Referee: Rawdha Al-Mansoori (United Arab Emirates)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
30 November – Jeddah (KA)
 
 
 Saudi Arabia0 (3)
 
2 December – Jeddah (PA)
 
 Palestine (p)0 (4)
 
 Palestine1
 
30 November – Jeddah (KA)
 
 Jordan3
 
 Jordan3
 
 
 Iraq0
 
Third place
 
 
2 December – Jeddah (PA)
 
 
 Saudi Arabia2 (2)
 
 
 Iraq (p)2 (4)

Semi-finals

Jordan 3–0 Iraq
 Report
Referee: Mohammed Al-Manii (Oman)
Saudi Arabia 0–0 Palestine
Report
Penalties
 3–4
Attendance: 610
Referee: Said Al-Mezeini (Oman)

Third place play-off

Saudi Arabia 2–2 Iraq
 Report
Penalties
 2–4
Referee: Mohammed Al-Manii (Oman)

Final

Palestine 1–3 Jordan
 Report
Referee: Said Al-Mezeini (Oman)
Palestine
Jordan
GK 23 Sharlot Phillips
DF 4 Sireen Ghattas (C)
FW 2 Rina Osorio
DF 3 Sara Kord Yellow card 89'
DF 6 Ahlam-Laila Nasr
MF 10 Laila Al-Shaikh downward-facing red arrow HT'
FW 11 Nour Youssef
FW 12 Dalia Asad-Halim downward-facing red arrow 90+2'
MF 15 Miral Qassis downward-facing red arrow 67'
FW 17 Nadine Mohamed downward-facing red arrow 67'
FW 22 Narin Abu Asfar downward-facing red arrow 90+2'
Substitutions:
FW 9 Naomi Phillips upward-facing green arrow HT'
MF 7 Jeniver Shattara upward-facing green arrow 67'
FW 8 Florencia Sabat upward-facing green arrow 67'
MF 5 Sara Al-Shakhshir upward-facing green arrow 90+2'
MF 21 Annasoraya Khoury upward-facing green arrow 90+2'
Head coach:
Ahmed Sharf
GK 12 Rawned Kassap
DF 19 Ayah Al-Majali (C)
MF 5 Marah Abu Tayeh
MF 6 Celine Akroush downward-facing red arrow 76'
DF 7 Farah Abu Tayeh downward-facing red arrow 90+3'
MF 8 Enas Al-Jamaeen
FW 9 Bana Al-Bitar downward-facing red arrow 90+3'
FW 10 Roukayah Al-Fararjeh downward-facing red arrow 67'
FW 15 Mai Sweilem downward-facing red arrow 67'
DF 20 Lana Feras
DF 21 Rand Abu-Hussein
Substitutions:
FW 11 Jinan Said upward-facing green arrow 67'
FW 17 Ida Tamimi upward-facing green arrow 67'
MF 2 Taqi Al-Zabrey upward-facing green arrow 76'
MF 14 Yasmeen Al-Ajrab upward-facing green arrow 90+3'
MF 18 Tahreer Al-Qawasmeh upward-facing green arrow 90+3'
Head coach:
Cape Verde David Nascimento

Assistant referees:
Karrar Abbas (Iraq)
Jana Haydar (Lebanon)
Fourth official:
Mohammed Al-Manii (Oman)

Goal scorers

There were 33 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 3.3 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Source: WAFF

References

  1. ^ a b c السعودية تستضيف بطولة السيدات التاسعة بمشاركة ستة منتخبات [Saudi Arabia hosts the ninth Women's Championship with the participation of six teams]. West Asian Football Federation (in Arabic). 16 October 2025. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Lebanon in Group B of the ninth WAFF Women's Championship" لبنان في المجموعة الثانية من بطولة غرب آسيا التاسعة للسيدات (in Arabic). Lebanese Football Association. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  3. ^ West Asian Football Federation [@waffootball]; (19 October 2025). اليكم جدول المباريات الكامل وتعرّفوا على أبرز المواجهات المرتقبة [Here is the full schedule of matches and get to know the most important upcoming matches] (in Arabic) – via Instagram.
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