2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship


The 2025 ASEAN U-23 Championship was the 5th edition of the ASEAN U-23 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by ASEAN Football Federation for the men's under-23 national teams of Southeast Asia. The tournament was held in Indonesia from 15 to 29 July.
The two-time defending champions Vietnam defeated hosts Indonesia 1–0 in the final, thereby successfully defending their 2022 and 2023 title and winning their third title overall.

Qualified teams

There was no qualification phase. The following teams, from 10 out of 12 member associations of the AFF, entered the tournament:
TeamAppearanceFirst appearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
3rd20222023Group stage
5th20052023
3rd20192023'
4th20052023
5th20052023
4th20052023
5th20052023Group stage
4th20052023'
5th20052023
4th20192023

Draw

The group stage draw was held on Bali, Indonesia at 10:00 local time.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4

Schedule

All matches were played from 15 to 29 July.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2002 are eligible to participate.
Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers. If a player was injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.

Match officials

  • Naufal Adya Fairuski
  • Ryan Nanda Saputra
  • Koji Takasaki
  • Mohammed Sami Al-Ismail
  • Mohd Usaid Jamal
  • Mohd Zulfiqar
  • Pansa Chaisanit
  • Lê Vũ Linh
  • Nguyễn Mạnh Hải

Venues

The tournament take place in two stadiums across northwestern part of Greater Jakarta.

Group stage

The group winners and the best runners-up advanced to the knockout stage, which began with the semi-finals.
''All times are local, WIB.''

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
  1. Points obtained in all group matches;
  2. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams had the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and were tied after applying all criteria above ;
  9. Disciplinary points
  10. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of second-placed teams

Only one second-placed team will qualify for the semi-finals.
Result against fourth-placed team in Group A will not be considered for this ranking.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, the penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary.

Statistics

Rising Star of the Tournament

The Adidas Rising Star of the Tournament award was given to the Philippines' Otu Banatao.

Best Goalkeeper

The best goalkeeper award was given to Indonesia's Muhammad Ardiansyah.

Top Goalscorer

The Yanmar Top Goalscorer award was given to Indonesia's Jens Raven, who scored 7 goals throughout the tournament including a double hat-trick against Brunei.

Most Valuable Player

The Mandiri Most Valuable Player award was given to Vietnam's Nguyễn Đình Bắc.