The 2023 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship ( ar, بطولة اتحاد غرب اسيا للسيدات دون ١٦ عامًا ٢٠٢٣) was the third edition of the
WAFF U-16 Girls Championship
The West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship (), or simply WAFF Women's Championship, is an international women's association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the West Asian Footba ...
(including previous editions of the WAFF U-15 Girls Championship), the biennial international youth
football
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championship organised by
West Asian Football Federation
The West Asian Football Federation (WAFF; ar, اتحاد غرب آسيا لكرة القدم, Ittiḥād Gharb Āsiyā li-Kurat al-Qadam), founded in 2001, is an association of the football playing nations in Western Asia. Its founding members a ...
(WAFF) for the women's under-16 national teams of
West Asia
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.
It was held in
Aqaba
Aqaba (, also ; ar, العقبة, al-ʿAqaba, al-ʿAgaba, ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative centre of the Aqaba Govern ...
, Jordan between 4 and 10 January 2023. A total of four teams competed in the tournament.
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
were the defending champions, having won the previous edition in
2019
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.
Participating nations
Four teams entered the 2022 WAFF U-16 Girls Championship.
Bahrain
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returned to the tournament after missing the 2019 edition. Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine kept their record of appearing in all WAFF U-16 Girls Championships.
Venues
On 14 December 2022, WAFF confirmed that Al-Aqaba Stadium would host the tournament matches.
Draw
The official draw took place on 20 December 2022, 11:00 local time
AST (UTC+3) at the WAFF Headquarters in
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
, Jordan.
Draw result
The draw resulted in the following order.
Match officials
;Referees
* Haneen Murad
*
Doumouh Al Bakkar
Doumouh Ibrahim Al Bakkar ( ar, دموع ابراهيم البقار; born 7 April 1990) is a Lebanese football referee who officiates primarily in the Lebanese Women's Football League.
Starting out as a player and coach, Al Bakkar became a r ...
;Assistant referees
* Amal Jama Badhafari
* Islam Al-Abadi
Group stage
''All times are local,
AST (
UTC+3
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).''
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Knockout stage
Third place play-off
Final
Goalscorers
References
{{WAFF Women's Championship
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International association football competitions hosted by Jordan
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