India emerged as winners of the SAFF U-18 Women's Football Championship held at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand yesterday. In a nail-biting last league match, India lost to Bangladesh, 0-1 but still emerged champions of the tournament on account of better goal difference.

India enjoyed a better goal difference of 11 in comparison to 3 of Bangladesh.

The valuable player of the tournament and the highest goal scorer of the tournament was Lynda Kom, who scored five goal goals in the tournament.