# 2011 SAFF Championship

The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship, sponsored by Karbonn Mobiles and officially named Karbonn SAFF Championship 2011, was the 9th tournament of the SAFF Championship, which held in New Delhi, India.

## Venue

It was originally scheduled to take place in Orissa, India, but was switched to New Delhi by the executive committee of the All India Football Federation on 22 September.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was the main venue for the tournament. It is also the home stadium for India national football team and hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
| New Delhi | New Delhi |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium | New Delhi |
| Capacity: 60,000 | New Delhi |

## Draw

The draw ceremony took place on 2 November 2011 at New Delhi's Le Meridien Hotel was attended by a host of dignitaries including AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das, SAFF General Secretary Alberto Colaco and Maldives Football Association General Secretary Shah Ismail.
| Group A | Group B |
| India (162) (1st seed)  Sri Lanka (176)  Afghanistan (178)  Bhutan (198) | Maldives (166) (2nd seed)  Bangladesh (142)  Nepal (143)  Pakistan (174) |
(The FIFA rankings of the teams at the start of the tournament are given in brackets in the table)

## Group stage

All times are Indian Standard Time (IST) – UTC+5:30
Key to colours in group tables :
* Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals

### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | +9 | 7 |
| India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 7 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 3 |
| Bhutan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 | −15 | 0 |

### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Maldives | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 5 |
| Nepal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 1 |

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 9 December — New Delhi | 9 December — New Delhi |
| Maldives | 1 |
| Maldives | 1 | 11 December — New Delhi | 11 December — New Delhi |
| India | 3 | 11 December — New Delhi | 11 December — New Delhi |
| India | 3 | India | 4 |
| 9 December — New Delhi | 9 December — New Delhi | | India | 4 |
| 9 December — New Delhi | 9 December — New Delhi | Afghanistan | 0 |
| Afghanistan (a.e.t.) | 1 | Afghanistan | 0 |
| Nepal | 0 | | |

### Final
## Champion

* SAFF Championship 2011
* India Sixth title

## Awards

| Fair Play Award | Fair Play Award | Fair Play Award | Top Scorer | Top Scorer | Top Scorer | Player of the Tournament | Player of the Tournament | Player of the Tournament |
| India | India | India | Sunil Chhetri | Sunil Chhetri | Sunil Chhetri | Sunil Chhetri | Sunil Chhetri | Sunil Chhetri |

## Statistics
### Goalscorers
#### 7 goals

* Sunil Chhetri

#### 6 goals

* Balal Arezou

#### 3 goals

* Clifford Miranda

#### 2 goals

* Sandjar Ahmadi
* Ata Yamrali
* Syed Rahim Nabi
* Jeje Lalpekhlua
* Ali Ashfaq
* Ahmed Thariq
* Nipuna Bandara
* Mohamed Zain

#### 1 goal

* Zohib Islam Amiri
* Mohammad Mashriqi
* Djelaludin Sharityar
* Shahedul Alam Shahed
* Chencho Gyeltshen
* Sushil Kumar Singh
* Shamweel Qasim
* Bharat Khawas
* Sandip Rai
* Sagar Thapa
* Samar Ishaq

#### Own goal

* Bandara Warakagoda (against India)

### Other statistics

* Most wins India 4 wins
* Most Losses Bhutan 3 loss
* Most Draws Pakistan 3 draws
* First goal of the tournament Ali Ashfaq for Maldives vs Nepal
* Most goals scored in a match Afghanistan 8 Goals vs Bhutan
* Lowest scores in a match 1. Bangladesh vs Pakistan 0-0
2. Pakistan vs Maldives 0-0
* Most Goals in a match by one player Balal Arezou for Afghanistan vs Bhutan 4 Goals
* Fastest Goal of the tournament Ata Yamrali for Afghanistan vs Bhutan in 4 Minutes
* Best Defender Djelaludin Sharityar of Afghanistan
* Best match of the tournament Afghanistan vs Nepal 1-0

## Broadcasting
### YouTube Live

In a deal with World Sport Group and SAFF's exclusive marketing and media partner, all matches were shown live on YouTube. The live matches are accessible globally through SAFF Youtube Channel except in India, where they were available on a delayed basis the following day.

### Television

| Countries | Broadcaster |
| Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Maldives  Nepal  Pakistan | TEN Action+ NEO Sports Ariana TV1 Doordarshan2 MNBC One |
$^1$ Only Afghan matches $^2$ Only Indian matches